giant in Old Tales of a Young Country
ight; but she returned without seeing their signals, and hope vanished. For six days the miserable wretches starved within sight of their prison home, and at last plucked up courage to make a last effort for life. They told Buckley that they had determined to retrace their steps round the bay to th…
- Record ID
- 1,873
- Year
- 1,871
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1873
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Old Tales of a Young Country; Marcus Clarke
- Published
- 1871
- Narrative type
- Giant and Ogre Narratives
- Public-text label
- giant
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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ight; but she returned without seeing their signals, and hope vanished. For six days the miserable wretches starved within sight of their prison home, and at last plucked up courage to make a last effort for life. They told Buckley that they had determined to retrace their steps round the bay to the settlement, and urged him to accompany them. The desperate giant refused. He would have liberty at any hazard. Death in the gloomy swamps, the fantastic underwood, or the barren sand hills, seemed not so terrible as the death-in-life of the convict sheds. They might go if they pleased--he would remain. They did so, and all but.
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