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Science, Technology and Luck

Gold in the Grass Roots – William Howitt

"Yet out of the very roots of the grass we milkshake golden. We can come across the particles shining as we open pieces of the grass roots, …"

(William Howitt Land,Labour and Gilded; or Ii Years in Victoria Longmans, London, 1855 quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed)History of the Australian Golden Rushes by those who were at that place. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. pp 48 and 49)

Tragedy in Peg Leg Gully – C Rudston Read

"Four brothers were excavation in Peg Leg Gully, endeavouring to bottom a hole over again that had been filled up during the floods … One of the banks slightly giving way, they endeavoured to keep it up (when too late) with shores, branches of trees etc. Whilst in the human action of doing this, the younger brother, who was downwards in the pit, stuck fast …finding he could not extricate himself, his brothers immediately rendered their assistance; this was to no avail, and immediately they called for help.

In less than a minute many arrived with ropes, buckets, bailers, shovels scoops &c. and gear up to work endeavouring to clear away the stuff, and some sailors dropping down got him slung, when every 1 that could get hold, tried to pull him out, he was at the aforementioned time having his arms around his elder brother'southward cervix … simply it was of no avail, the stuff slowly filled in upon him, and as information technology rose the poor blood brother was compelled to allow him get to salvage his own life, and the unfortunate lad was smothered."

(C Rudston Read,What I Heard, Saw and Did at the Australian Goldfields T.&W. Boone, London, 1853 as quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed)History of the Australian Gold Rushes by those who were at that place. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 102)

Goldfields Life – The Practiced Quondam Days?

Foreign and Pathetic Cases – William Howitt

Invalid Digger past S. T. Gill. Gold Museum Drove

"In fact, he appeared on the very verge of consumption (a illness of the lungs), and said he had been a year and a half in the colony; that he had been to all the diggings, both in Sydney and Victoria, but everywhere with the same absolute want of luck; that everywhere he had been pursued past dysentery, or another exhausting complaint …he had no means of conveying his tent and tools abroad."

(William HowittLand, Labour and Aureate; or Two Years in Victoria Longmans, London, 1855 quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed)History of the Australian Aureate Rushes by those who were there. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 58)

Flies! – William Howitt

" The little blackness-devil wing all day attacked our eyes, olfactory organ and mouth: and great blowflies in thousands blew our blankets, rugs and everything woollen, all over with their maggots, which were at once dried upon by the sunday. They covered spaces of a pes foursquare at one time with them, all adhering by a sort of gluiness."

(William HowittState, Labour and Gold; or Ii Years in Victoria Longmans, London, 1855 quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed)History of the Australian Gold Rushes by those who were there. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 110)

The Women of Bendigo – William Howitt

"The women of Bendigo are much more neatly dressed than y'all would look … There is no lack of handsome mantillas, polkas, smart bonnets, and parasols. … Yet, in a morning , yous may often see these ladies – and very often, too, smart young girls, not more than than fifteen- hanging out their wash, decorated at their cooking, or chopping wood with bang-up axes, which they seem not to swing, just which rather swing them, equally they cut splinters from the stumps which decoration this digger landscape …

As to girls marrying hither-the great temptation- that is presently achieved.- for I hear lots of diggers go married almost every time they get downwards to Melbourne to spend their gilded. A lot of the vilest scoundrels are assembled hither from the four winds of sky. Nobody knows them; much less whether they have left wives backside them in their own country."

(William Howitt Land,Labour and Golden; or Two Years in VictoriaLongmans, London, 1855 quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed)History of the Australian Gilt Rushes by those who were there. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 129)

The Affable Female – Ellen Clacy

Our Volunteer Maria playing the part of a sly grog seller

" Whilst her husband was at piece of work farther down the gully, she kept a sort of sly-grog shop, and passed the day selling and drinking spirits, swearing, and smoking a short tobacco-pipage at the door of her tent. She was a about repulsive looking object. A muddied, gaudy-coloured dress hung unfastened about her shoulders, course black pilus unbrushed, uncombed, dangled about her face, over which her evil habits had spread a genuine bacchanalian glow, whilst in a loud masculine voice she uttered the most awful words that ever disgraced the oral cavity of human – ten m times more awful when proceeding from a woman's lips"

(Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy,A lady's Visit to the Aureate Diggings of Australia in 1852 – 53Hurst& Blackett, London, 1853 as quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed)History of the Australian Gold Rushes by those who were there. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 134)

Survey of Bendigo, early 1850s – James Bonwick

" We alive in canvass homes, or huts of bawl and logs…Our furniture is of uncomplicated graphic symbol. A box, a cake of forest, or a fleck of paling across a pail, serves as a tabular array … Nosotros have those who indulge in plates, knives and forks but … the washing of plates and cleaning of knives and forks require an application of cleanliness most foreign to the … blasting. Besides, chops can be picked out of the frying pan, placed on a lump of bread, and cutting with a clasp knife that has washed good service in fossicking during the day"

… "And yet, in spite of the weather, exposure, dust, mud, filth, flies and fleas, the blasting take such attractions that even the unlucky must come up dorsum for another trial. The wild, free and contained life appears the nifty charm. They have no masters. They become where they please and work when they will."

James Bonwick, Notes of a Gold Digger and Gilt Digger'due south Guide ,  E. Connebee, Melbourne, 1852 every bit quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed) History of the Australian Gold Rushes by those who were in that location. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 157 &159

Never shall I forget that scene  – Ellen Clacy

"Never shall I forget that scene, it well repaid a journey even of sixteen m miles. The copse had been all cut down; it looked similar a sandy plain, or 1 vast unbroken succession of countless gravel pits."

Ellen Clacy, A Lady's Visit to the Aureate-Blasting of Australia in 1852-3, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1963 (first published 1853)

Night at the blasting – Ellen Clacy

"Nighttime at the diggings is the characteristic fourth dimension; murder here – murder there – revolvers neat – blunderbusses (big firearms) bombing – rifles going off – assurance whistling – i human groaning with a broken leg – another shouting because he couldn't discover his fashion to his hole, and a third as vociferous (loud) considering he has tumbled into one – this man swearing – another praying – a party of bacchanals (drunks) chanting various ditties to different time and melody, or rather minus both."

Ellen Clacy, A Lady'south Visit to the Gold-Diggings of Commonwealth of australia in 1852- three, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1963 (first published 1853)

The Commissioner's Report – John Richard Hardy, first Gold Commissioner in New South Wales Camp, June 1851

…I am happy to say that I accept not experienced the slightest trouble or annoyance from whatever person here; they refer all their disputes to me without attempting to settle them by violence, and submit to my decision without murmur. I have not sworn in any special constables; it is perfectly unnecessary, for everything goes on in as orderly and repose a manner as in the quietest English language town. In that location is no drinking or rioting going on."

(John Richard Harding, Further Papers Rel;ative to The Discovery of Gold in Australia, Parliamentary Papers, Great United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and Republic of ireland, H.M. Jotter Office, 1852 as quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed) History of the Australian Gilt Rushes by those who were there. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 26 & 27)

What Men! – William Howitt

South.T.Gill – Australian Sketch Book- Golden Museum Drove

"What men! and what costumes! Huge burly fellows with broad, battered straw or cabbage-tree hats, huge beards, loose bluish shirts, and trowsers (sic) yellow with clay and world, many of them showing that they had already been digging in Sydney, where at that place is so much gold, but according to fame, not then arable or so pure as in this colony; about every man had a gun, or pistols in his belt, and a huge canis familiaris, half hound half mastiff, led by a chain. Each had his bundle, containing his sacking to sleep upon, his blanket and such slight alter of linen as these diggers carry. They had, as well, their spades and picks tied together; and thus they marched up the country, bearing with them all they desire, and lying out under the copse."

William Howitt, State, Labour, and Gold: or Two Years in Victoria With Visits to Sydney and Van Diemon'south Land, Longmans, London,1855

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