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From: "Olwyn Whitehouse" <>
Subject: 1859 Lyttelton deseter's Reminiscences
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:13:45 -0500


http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/taylor.htm
See section IV



1.Any comments?
"All bushmen were runaway sailors"



Some of his old shipmates seeing him on the road immediately called out
their recognition and his overseer, who was a midget with the voice of a
lion, yelled out that no straight-backs were allowed there. He promptly
stuck his pick in the ground and walked off.



2. What did the overseer mean by "no straight-backs were allowed"?



"the whole job was L12 each"
3. Is that the same as 12 pounds?



Cheers,
Olwyn
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/desert.htm






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