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Title: The Beginning Of The Sea Story Of Australia
1901
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: April 5, 2008 [EBook #24997]
Last Updated: January 8, 2013
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEA STORY OF AUSTRALIA ***
Produced by David Widger
THE BEGINNING OF THE SEA STORY
OF AUSTRALIA
From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories
By Louis Becke
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
1901
To many people in England the mention of Australia conjures pictures of tented gold-fields and tall, black-bearded, red-shirted bushrangers; of mounted police recruited from flaxen-haired younger sons of good old English families, well-groomed and typically Anglo-Saxon
; of squatters and sheep runs; of buckjumpers ridden by the most daring riders in the world; and of much more to the same purpose; but never is presented a picture of the sea or sailor folk.
Yet the first half-century of Australian history is all to do with the ocean. The British sailor laid the foundation of the Australian nation, and, in the beginning, more than any other class, the sailorman did the colonising—and did it well. This, however, is the story of most British possessions, and generally it is gratefully remembered and the sailor duly credited and kindly thought of for his work. But in these days the dry west wind from the back blocks seems to have blown the taste of brine and the sound of the seethe of the curling white horse
out of the mind of the native-born Australian; and the sailing day of a mail boat is the only thing that the average colonial knows or cares to know about salt water.
To write on such a subject as this, one has to leave out so much, that it is necessary to begin almost in the middle in order to reach an ending. Sea exploration and coast surveying opened the ways; whaling—it may surprise the reader, but it is nevertheless true—was once the main support of Australia and New Zealand; and runaway sailors formed a very considerable part of the back country population, such men making handier and better farm
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