devil in Tales of the Austral Tropics — AusFigures public-text record

PUBLIC-TEXT RECORD / ARCHIVE

devil in Tales of the Austral Tropics

YEAR
1893
PLACE
Not mapped
SOURCE
Project Gutenberg Australia
AUSFIGURESPUBLIC-TEXT ARCHIVEARCHIVE INDEX
PUBLIC-TEXT RECORD

devil in Tales of the Austral Tropics

through the ill-fitting slabs. A strong smell of fried steak proved that somebody had usurped his position. A party of five men were seated at the table, eating and drinking from the iron plates and tin pannikins he had so often cleaned. Listening, he heard their talk was of him. Redbeard was at th…

Record ID
1,850
Year
1,893
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Index status
Archive detail (not indexed)

This reviewed public record supports the curated archive pages but intentionally remains outside the search sitemap.

Record context

Record ID
1850
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
Tales of the Austral Tropics; Ernest Favenc
Published
1893
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
devil
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Northern Australia: B
Source voice
Source Grounded Section Record
Publicness
Public Domain Public Web

Source-grounded excerpt

through the ill-fitting slabs. A strong smell of fried steak proved that somebody had usurped his position. A party of five men were seated at the table, eating and drinking from the iron plates and tin pannikins he had so often cleaned. Listening, he heard their talk was of him. Redbeard was at the head of the table, and with much humour was describing his ghostly experience with Sandy the night before. "I give you my word, boys, he's out at Murderer's Camp now, shaking in his shoes and praying that all hands and the cook up above will take pity on the soul of yours truly" "How did you fix him?" said one. "With a painted mark.

The excerpt is presented as public-source context. Terminology belongs to the cited source and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.

Browse this record

Narrative type: Ghost and Apparition AccountsEncyclopedia profile: DevilSource: Project Gutenberg AustraliaOpen original public source

Related public records

  1. devil in Queensland, Australia#17641861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Spirit-Person Narrativesions of the Bechuanas, another African nation. " These beings," observes a writer in the " North British Keview," for November, 1845, on the authority of the missionaries, '^ had no ideas of anything beyond this world.…
  2. devil in Queensland, Australia#17691861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Spirit-Person Narrativesation, although to the surprise and mortification of most of our Sydney legislators, that it did- contain a clause to the effect I had recommended. That clause, I am happy to add, providing as it did for the separation…
  3. devil in Queensland, Australia#17701861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Spirit-Person Narrativesindifferent land, and the whole is so intersected with streams and fi*esh- water marshes, that if such a block were divided into fiirms of 300 acres, each ferm would have its propor- tion of the advantages common to the…
  4. devil in Old Tales of a Young Country#18711871 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Spirit-Person Narratives; but having ruined himself at the gaming-table, had turned highwayman. A bullet wound received on Finchley Common incapacitated him for his profession, and he then turned parson and pickpocket. With this worthy, Barrin…
  5. devil in Old Tales of a Young Country#18721871 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Spirit-Person Narrativesaste more precious time in repairing this damage. Without tools they toiled many days to make the boat sufficiently seaworthy to enable them to rejoin their companions. One day Dominick Spesinick, who was an elderly man…
  6. devil in Tales of Australian Life#20061875 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsd Arthur "Wilton thought he saw a gladder prospect. Mrs. Jack did not see her husband ; she saw a madman in the local hospital that was once the devil-may-care rider, and latterly the devil-may-care criminal. He told he…
AboutSourceIndexMap