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| Name | Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Travelling 'Under Concern' |
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| Description | An overview of the investigative tours of British Quakers, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, who were 'travelling under concern' in the Southern oceans in 1830s. |
| Type | Journey |
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| Contributor | Heidi Ing |
| Entries | 299 |
| Allow ANPS? | No |
| Added to System | 2024-09-27 11:43:15 |
| Updated in System | 2024-09-27 14:02:21 |
| Subject | colonialism, religious society of friends, quakers, colonial history, james backhouse, george washington walker, transnational human rights activism |
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| Creator | Penny Edmonds |
| Publisher | |
| Contact | penny.edmonds@flinders.edu.au |
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| Source URL | https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634 |
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| Date From | 1831-09-03 |
| Date To | 1841-02-21 |
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| Language | English |
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Embarkation of the barque Science from St Katherine's Dock, London, under Captain William Saunders
- Placename
- St Katharine's Dock, London, United Kingdom
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- People
- Captain William Saunders
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 1
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Description of forty-six 'Chelsea pensioners' in steerage
- Placename
- Gravesend, United Kingdom
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 1
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Disorderly conduct at Deal, London
- Placename
- Deal, London, United Kingdom
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 2
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Intemperance and violent behaviour on board the barque Science
- Placename
- The Downs, Kent, United Kingdom
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 2
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The 'last trace of our native shores' at Lizard Point, Cornwall
- Placename
- Lizard Point, Cornwall
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 3
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Sailing 'out of soundings' on a dark blue ocean
- Placename
- Celtic Sea
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 3
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Bottled spring-water a great luxury
- Placename
- Celtic Sea
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 3
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The vessel followed by 'Stormy Petrels'
- Placename
- Celtic Sea
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 3
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Off the northwest coast of Spain where 'the land seemed of considerable elevation'
- Placename
- Cape Finisterre, Spain
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 4
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Entered the 'Torrid Zone'
- Placename
- Tropic of Cancer
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 4
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Uneventful crossing of the Equator at 27o west longitude
- Placename
- Equator
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 4
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Passed between the 'rocks of Martim Vaz and the little island of Trinidad'
- Placename
- Martim Vaz, Brazil
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 5
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Remains of John Salmon committed to the deep
- Placename
- South Atlantic Ocean
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- People
- John Salmon
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 5
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Description of the whaling vessel Borneo capturing two whales
- Placename
- South Atlantic Ocean
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 6
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Sighted the coast of Africa off Saldanha Bay
- Placename
- Saldanha Bay, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 7
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Sailed past Dassen and Robben Islands into Table Bay
- Placename
- Table Bay, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 7
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Guests of Dr and Jane Philip in Cape Town
- Placename
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- People
- Dr and Jane Philip; Governor Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole; Colonial Secretary John Bell
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 8
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Visit to the Philanthropic Society, schools, and other public institutions in Cape Town
- Placename
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- People
- Philanthropic Society
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 9
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Attended a meeting 'for the formation of a Temperance Society'
- Placename
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- People
- Temperance Society'
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 9
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A meeting in the chapel of the London Mission Society
- Placename
- London Missionary Society, Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- People
- London Mission Society
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 9
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Return to the Science, 'having parted from our kind friends in Cape Town', farewelled with a pray from Dr Philip
- Placename
- Cape Town Harbour, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- People
- Dr Philip
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 9
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Passed the southermost point of Africa and 'were again out of sight of land'
- Placename
- Cape Agulhas, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Visit to South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 10
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
In the Southern Ocean 'between the 39th and 45th degrees of south latitude'
- Placename
- Southern Ocean
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 11
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Passed by a penguin 'when upwards of 100 miles south of the island of Amsterdam'
- Placename
- Île Amsterdam
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 11
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Cheered 'by the sight of Van Diemens Land' opposite Port Davey after fifty days in 'the solitude of the ocean'
- Placename
- Port Davey, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 11
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Descriptions of sharks while the Science 'passed to the south' of Van Diemen's Land
- Placename
- Southern Ocean
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 12
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Passed 'too close to Acteon Reef' and 'in danger of being driven into Bad Bay'
- Placename
- Actaeon Island
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 13
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Science 'rounded the rocky islets fronting Tasman's Head'
- Placename
- Tasman's Head, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 13
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Viewed 'a fine mass of columnar basalt' at Fluted Cape
- Placename
- Fluted Cape, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 13
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The ship Science proceeded up Storm Bay 'along the east side of Bruny Island, as far as Fluted Cape' when 'dazzled by numerous fires of large extent, consuming the adjacent woods, as to be unable to see our way'
- Placename
- North Bruny, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 13
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Science 'entered the Derwent' early in the morning 'at a short distance from Hobart Town'
- Placename
- River Derwent, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 13
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Science 'took in a pilot' who guided their journey into 'Sulivans Cove'
- Placename
- Sullivans Cove, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Van Diemen's Land
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 13
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Delivered 'a letter of introduction from Lord Goderich, the Secretary of State for the Colonies' and gained 'a favourable impression' of Lieutenant Governor Colonel George Arthur
- Placename
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- Lieutenant Governor Colonel George Arthur; Secretary of State for the Colonies Lord Goderich;
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 14
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Went 'on shore with John Leach, a young man from Bradford, Yorkshire' who was 'professing with the Wesleyans' and 'made calls on several people to whom we had letters of introduction'
- Placename
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- John Leach
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 15
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Took 'lodging in Liverpool Street, near the entrance into the Government Domain'
- Placename
- Liverpool Street, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 16
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Meet with 'the captain of a vessel who had lately taken some of the Aborigines to Flinders Island'
- Placename
- Liverpool Street, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 16
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Had tea with Lieutenant Governor Colonel George Arthur and his family who made up 'a numerous and interesting group'
- Placename
- Government House, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 16
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Went on board the ship Liberty which was built out of the wreck of the Betsy and Sophia
- Placename
- Sullivans Cove, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 16
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Went 'on board the Elizabeth, in company with Captain Forster, the chief police magistrate, to whom we had been introduced by the Governor, and witnessed the examination of part of the convicts, just arrived from England in this ship'
- Placename
- Sullivans Cove, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- Chief Police Magistrate Captain Forster; Surgeon-superintendent Dr Martin; convicts on board the ship Elizabeth
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 18
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Went 'to the Penitentiary to see the convicts from on board the Elizabeth, examined by the Lieut. Governer, who spoke to several of them individually: he alluded to the degraded state into which they had brought themselves by their crimes; this he justly compared to a state of slavery'
- Placename
- Convict Penitentiary, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- Lieutenant Governor Colonel George Arthur; convicts recently arrived on the ship Elizabeth
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 19
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A conversation with a women who had been brought as a child to the Colony in 1804, at the time that Lieut. Governor Collins first formed a settlement' and who described visits of Aboriginal people 'with whom the children were often left, and who treated them kindly'
- Placename
- Elizabeth Town / New Town, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 21
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A visit to 'the House of Correction for females, termed the Factory' which contained about 230 prisoners
- Placename
- Female Factory, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 21
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Addressed 'a chain-gang of upwards of 100 prisoners' who were 'quiet and attentive' as a 'guard of soldiers under arms' stood over them
- Placename
- Bridgewater, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- 100 prisoners
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 22
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Walked 'to the Government-garden, which is situated on the beautiful banks of the Derwent, about a mile from town'
- Placename
- Government Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 22
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Inspection of 'the King's School, conducted on the National School plan' and attended by upwards of forty boys who 'pay from 4d. to 1s. a week, but attend irregularly'
- Placename
- King's School, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 23
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A walk 'to Elizabeth Town, usually called New Norfolk, in consequence of a number of persons, formerly residing on Norfolk Island, being settled in the neighbourhood'
- Placename
- New Norfolk, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 24
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At New Norfolk, which consisted of about thirty houses, they visited the unfinished hospital 'under the superintendence of one of the Colonial Surgeons'. They 'also visited a respectable boarding-school, of about twenty fine looking boys, kept by a young man with whose family' had been acquaintances of Backhouse when in England.
- Placename
- New Norfolk, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 24-25
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Upon returning to Hobart, Backhouse and Walker called 'at a few small cottages on the Sorell-rivulet’, where they ‘reasoned with the occupants on "temperance, righteousness, and judgment to come"’.
- Placename
- Sorell Rivulet, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 25
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They ‘accompanied the Lieutenant Governor to the Old Orphan School, and to an unfinished building, designed for the better accommodation of this institution. The latter is prettily situated near New-town, and is intended for about six hundred children’.
- Placename
- New Town, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 25
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker returned to Hobart and remained there until May, ‘occupied in putting religious tracts and books into circulation, visiting the prisons, conversing with various persons, on the eternal interests of man, and holding or attending meetings for the promotion of religion and morality’. Several times they 'visited the prisoners in the Penitentiary' which contained 'upwards of 600 prisoners'.
- Placename
- Hobart Convict Penitentiary, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 32-33
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
While in the district of Clyde, they ‘visited the recently laid-out town of Bothwell’ which had ‘a small Episcopal place of worship, built of stone, an inn of two stories, of brick, about thirty houses, of wood, and a small jail, of the same material’.
- Placename
- Bothwell, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 28
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
In Hamilton they found ‘a water-mill and about ten houses, occupied chiefly by artizans of various kinds’ who were ‘a great accommodation to the settlers of the surrounding district ; and such of them as are sober and industrious make a respectable livelihood’.
- Placename
- Hamilton, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 28
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On the Tamar sailing from Sullivans Cove to Macquarie Harbour with Backhouse and Walker were, ‘John Burn, the captain for the voyage, Henry Herberg, the mate, David Hoy, a ship's carpenter, Jno. A. Manton’ along with 10 ‘private soldiers and a sergeant, as guard’, 2 soldiers' wives with 5 children, 12 seamen ‘several of whom were convicts’, and 18 ‘prisoners under sentence to the Penal Settlement’.
- Placename
- Sullivans Cove, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- John Burn; Henry Herberg; David Hoy; Jno. A. Manton; Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 36-38
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
After 'passing between the Acteon Islands and Recherche Bay', the Tamar 'rounded the Whales-head', 'came into the open sea' and sailed into 'the middle harbour of Port Davey' where they remained for seventeen days.
- Placename
- Port Davey, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 38-43
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On the 4th of June the Tamar 'came distinctly in view of Cape Sorell' and experienced a treacherous entry into Macquarie Habour and through 'a narrow passage between two rocks, called "The Gates", or from the nature of the settlement, "Hells Gates”; many of the prisoners recklessly asserting that all who entered in hither, were doomed to eternal perdition’.
- Placename
- Cape Sorell, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 44-45
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse and Walker ‘remained 17 days at the settlement on Sarahs Island, making occasional excursions to the out-posts’. Backhouse noted that ‘the place has since been abandoned, on account of its distance from Hobart Town, and the difficulty of access to it, and the prisoners have been transferred to Port Arthur, on Tasmans Peninsula’, and then devoted a chapter to describing ‘the discipline of the prisoners’, ‘the nearly uninhabited, western side of V. D. Land’, and ‘a specimen of the discipline of one of the older Penal Settlements’.
- Placename
- Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 44-45
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 46-49
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
During their stay at Macquarie Harbour, they 'received great kindness and attention from the Commandant' who afforded them 'all the information we desired respecting the discipline of the Settlement', and gave them 'free access to the prisoners, both for ascertaining their feelings, and for the purpose of imparting religious instruction'.
- Placename
- Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 56
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse interviewed the steward on board the Tamar who had been 'transported when 14 years old' and found that he 'attributed his early turpitude, to the influence of had company, which led him to use strong drink and disobey his father, and to practice many other evils'. He had been transported for robbery and though 'he had forsaken his evil ways' he still 'felt keenly the bitter consequences of his former vices, for which he was still in bondage'.
- Placename
- Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 57
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse reported that parties of Aboriginal people crossed the mouth of Macquarie Harbour 'on floats, in the form of a boat, made of bundles of the paper-like bark of the Swamp Tea-tree, lashed side by side, by means of tough grass'.
- Placename
- Bowra Rock, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 58
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse recorded that the Aboriginal people of the Macquarie Harbour region [Toogee People] were 'said to be shy' and had not 'committed any outrage'. Backhouse reported that 'a girl of about fourteen years of age' had been exchanged for a dog with the people at the Pilot Station, but that 'the girl not liking her situation was taken back, and the dog returned'.
- Placename
- Macquarie Heads Pilot Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 58
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On the return of Backhouse and Walker to Hobart, they took up residence 'with Thomas J. and Sarah Crouch' to whose home they continually returned as lodgers for several years. Backhouse and Walker presented a 'report on the state of the Penal Settlement at Macquarie Habour' to the Lieutenant Governor.
- Placename
- Government House, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- Thomas and Sarah Crouch
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 60
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Having ‘received an invitation from a settler named Robert Mather’ and his wife to visit them ‘at Lauderdale, on Muddy Plains’, Backhouse and Walker travelled across ‘a salt marsh’ to find a ‘neat, clean brick house, two tidy children, and a thriving garden, clear of weeds’, and they preached in the local area.
- Placename
- Launderdale, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- Robert Mather
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 63
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse and Walker travelled to ‘town of Richmond’ which was ‘prettily situated, at the extremity of an inlet called the Sweet Water’ and ‘consisted of the court-house, a jail, a windmill, and about 30 dwelling-houses, three of which were inns’.
- Placename
- Richmond, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 64-66
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- James Norman
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 64-66
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 69-70
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse and Walker received the sanction of the Lieutenant Governor to visit the 'Establishment' for Aboriginal people on Flinders Island in Bass Strait, and embarked in the 'Charlotte' cutter under the command of John Thornloe from Doncaster.
- Placename
- Sullivans Cove, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- John Thornloe
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 71
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
In the evening they 'passed Cape Raoul or Basaltes, a a magnificent mass of perpendicular basaltic columns, forming the south west point of Tasmans Peninsula'.
- Placename
- Cape Raoul, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 71
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The cutter Charlotte 'put into Port Arthur, a penal settlement lately formed to receive prisoners' who had been transferred from a penal settlement on Maria Island.
- Placename
- Carnarvon Bay, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 71
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Near Cape Pillar the cutter Charlotte 'fell in with the barque Bolina, of London, on her passage from New Zealand'.
- Placename
- Cape Pillar, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 72
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The cutter Charlotte 'beat up between Maria Island and the main land' until the evening when they 'were cheered by lights on the coast, at the house of a settler, and at a whaling station, in Spring Bay'.
- Placename
- Spring Bay, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 72
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
One of the cutter's crew was a 'prisoner having a ticket of leave, who had been educated in a school on the system of the British and Foreign School Society, at Norwich', and retained 'a sense of the kindness they met with from Joseph John Gurney, Peter Bedford, Elizabeth Fry, and some others of our friends in England'.
- Placename
- Spring Bay, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Joseph John Gurney; Peter Bedford; Elizabeth Fry; Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 72
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 74
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- James Munro; Jumbo; Aboriginal women
- Objects
- Shell Necklace
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 75
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On Preservation Island sealer James Munro and Aboriginal woman 'Jumbo' raised 'wheat, potatoes, and other vegetables near his house', reared 'goats, pigs and fowls', collected birds and their eggs.
- Placename
- Preservation Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- James Munro; Jumbo
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 76
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Captain John Thornloe had been told 'the settlement on Flinders Island was suffering for want of provisions'. The cutter Charlotte sailed from Preservation Island, assisted by James Munro as pilot, and passed Long Island, Badger Island, Chapel Island, before reaching the anchorage under Green Island, 'the nearest place of safety to the settlement, at which a vessel could lie'.
- Placename
- Big Green Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 77
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The approach of the cutter Charlotte to Flinders Island 'was hailed with joy' as supplies were low. Two boats approached, bringing the Commandant, Ensign William J. Darling, and surgeon A. McLachlan to meet the Charlotte.
- Placename
- Parrys Bay, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- William James Darling; Archibald MacLachlan
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 77
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
When Backhouse and Walker were landed on Flinders Island, 'close by the Settlement' a 'considerable number' of Aboriginal people were upon the beach.
- Placename
- Whitemark Beach, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- William James Darling; Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 81
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A 'corrobery' was held in which Aboriginal people 'represented certain events, or the manners of different animals: they had a horse dance, an emu dance, a thunder and lightening dance, and many others.'
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 82
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
This day 'a sealer from Guncarriage Island, came and took away a child that he had had' with an Aboriginal woman, and he 'would not be persuaded to leave the little girl under the care' or her mother, 'who was greatly distressed at parting' with her daughter.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aborginal woman
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 83
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At 'The Lagoons' Aboriginal people resided in 'three huts or "breakwinds"' with fires in the centre. When Backhouse and Walker entered a hut, 'the people sat up, and began to sing… with much animation of countenance and gesture', and this was 'kept up to a late hour: they are said often to continue their singing till midnight'.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 83
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Aboriginal men were 'rerequested to cease from wearing "bal-de-winny," that is red ochre and grease, in their hair, they had signified a willingness to do so, if they might have some other covering for their heads... Scotch Caps were distributed among them'.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal men
- Objects
- Scotch Caps
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 83
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse and Walker, with WJ Darling, GW Walker, four Aboriginal men and two Aboriginal women, walked to 'Pea Jacket Point'. The Settlement was seen as 'unfit for agriculture and in other respects unfavourable for advancement of civilisation', so a move was planned. The party camped overnight in 'a well sheltered place, by a small streamlet'.
- Placename
- Palana Road, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal people; William James Darling; George Washington Walker
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 85
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Pea Jacket Point 'appeared much preferable for a settlement to the Lagoons, being a promontory with a considerable quantity of grassland, sheltered by thick scrub toward the sea, and having access to the mountains behind ; nevertheless fresh water was not so plentiful as was desirable, but sufficient for necessary purposes'.
- Placename
- Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 86
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On Sunday 14 October 1832 'the white population assembled in a place formed of branches, and used as a chapel', with several Aboriginal people present. In the evening, 'a number of' Aboriginal people joined Backhouse and Walker in the Commandant's hut.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 87
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
An elderly Aboriginal woman who had been named 'Boatswain' by the sealers 'to whom she had long been in bondage', informed Backhouse and Walker 'by means of signs, and a few words in broken English' of the treatment of Aboriginal women by sealers.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal people; Boatswain
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 88-89
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Two Aboriginal women called 'Isaac' and 'Judy' by the sealers, had escaped from Green Island via a cutter's boat, and two other Aboriginal women had 'waded and swam from Green Island to the Settlement―a distance of three miles'.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Isaac; Judy; Aboriginal women
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 89
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse relates a relationship between 'Roomtya or Bet' and 'Trigoomipoonenah or Jackey' and the supply of food they provided the Commandant.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Roomtya (Bet); Trigoomipoonenah (Jackey); Aboriginal women
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 90
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse and Walker received 'a few waddies and some shell necklaces' from Aboriginal people and gave 'presents in return'.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Objects
- Waddies; Shell Necklaces
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 90
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to the cutter Charlotte which was moored at Green Island, where they went on shore. While 'on the island one of the women threw some sticks' at James Thornloe, 'on his mentioning her son' who was 'at school at Newtown', as the 'mention of an absent relative is considered offensive... especially if deceased'.
- Placename
- Big Green Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- Aboriginal women
- Objects
- Charlotte
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 91-93
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Sealer James Munro, Aborginal woman 'Jumbo', along with four other Aboriginal people, came on board the Charlotte and 'took tea' with Backhouse and Walker in their cabin.
- Placename
- Big Green Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- James Munro; Jumbo; Aboriginal women
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 93
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Charlotte left Green Island to return sealer James Munro and Aboriginal woman Jumbo to Preservation Island.
- Placename
- Preservation Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- People
- James Munro; Jumbo
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 93
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The cutter Charlotte arrived 'near the heads of the Tamar or Port Dalrymple,—an estuary extending to Launceston,—and near to the mouth of which, George Town is situated' and Backhouse and Walker 'were kindly received by the Port Officer, Matthew Curling Friend, late of the Norval'.
- Placename
- Port Dalrymple, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- Matthew Curling Friend
- Objects
- Norval
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 94
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Arrived at George Town which was described as 'a small assemblage of scattered houses'.
- Placename
- George Town, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 95
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Received 'a hearty welcome at Launceston, from Isaac and Katharine Sherwin, a thoughtful young couple'.
- Placename
- Launceston
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- Isaac & Katherine Sherwin
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 95
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Visited a school that did 'not belong to any particular denomination of Christians' but was 'supported by several' and was 'in a thriving condition'.
- Placename
- Balfour Street, Launceston, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- Objects
- Christian School
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 95
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Attended a meeting 'in a small court-house, at which two hundred persons might be present'. At this meeting Backhouse felt compelled to preach and there 'seemed to be an open ear in the congregation'.
- Placename
- Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- Objects
- Small Court House
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 95-96
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- Objects
- Episcopal Church; The Cataract
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 95-96
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- Four Aboriginal people; William James Darling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 96
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Major Fairtlough, the Commandant, received them politely and let them know their 'cutter was going to sail immediately', so they 'proceeded to the jetty' to find an intoxicated crew. The cockswain 'persisted in putting off', so 'took in two prisoners to assist in pulling the boat' but found they 'were not very expert hands'. When the cockswain 'recovered from the effects of his intemperance' he could not remember taking in the prisoners, so 'he turned them both on shore'.
- Placename
- North Esk River, Launceston, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- Major Fairtlough; two convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 97
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They 'proceeded some miles down the Tamar' in the cutter, until 'the tide was spent' so they dropped anchor and went on shore. The Aboriginal people on board the cutter 'pursued some kangaroos, casting off all their clothes in the chase'.
- Placename
- River Tamar, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 97
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Objects
- Public House
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 97
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Upon reaching George Town they were 'again received with much kindness by M.C. Friend and his wife, and from a magistrate named John Clark' who housed them until 29 October 1832.
- Placename
- George Town, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- John Clark; M.C. Friend
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 98
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- George Town to Launceston
- People
- Two Aboriginal men
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 98
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Proper, an Aboriginal man traveling with W.J. Darling, was described as being of the country near Circular Head'
- Placename
- Sawyer Bay, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal man Proper
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 99
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal woman Jackey
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 99
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At the Circular Head jetty, an Aboriginal woman named Maria was 'rescued' from sealers, along with her baby.
- Placename
- Stanley Jetty, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal woman Maria
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Met with George A Robinson & Edward Curr, Superintendent of the Van Diemen's Land Company, whose home, garden and fields in 'almost every other object but the Gum-trees', resembled England.
- Placename
- Stanley, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- George A Robinson; Edward Curr
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal woman; Kangaroo Island; Sealers
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 100
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Charlotte was anchored at Woolnorth Bay in preparation to transport Aboriginal people 'collected by G.A. Robinson, from Barren Island, where he had left them'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth Bay, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Greeted by Samuel Reeves, Superintendent with the Van Diemen's Land Company and surgeon James Richardson at Woolnorth, where there were 'only a few weather-boarded buildings'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Superintendent Samuel Reeves; Surgeon James Richardson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At Cape Grim the 'whole scenery is in harmony with the name of the place'.
- Placename
- Cape Grim, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 101
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The 'Wandering Albatross rears is young on Albatross Island, where it sits on its eggs til knocked down by the sealers for the sake of its feathers' which were 'sold for about 9d a pound'. A single bird could yield about a pound of feathers and nearly 1,000 Albotrosses were said to have been killed on this island in 1831, with some of the birds 'stunned, plucked, and cruelly left to linger'.
- Placename
- Albatross Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Birds; Albatross
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 102
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The kelp on Albatross Island was 'of gigantic magnitude' and it was converted by Aboriginal people into vessels for carrying water'.
- Placename
- Albatross Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Mutton fish were 'met with abundantly' and Aboriginal women would dive for them in deep water, 'force them from the rocks by means of a wooden chisel' and bring them up in an oval bag 'suspended round their necks'.
- Placename
- Albatross Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal women
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people; Aboriginal woman; Anthony Cottrell; George Augustus Robinson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At Woolnorth, Backhouse & Walker interviewed an Aboriginal man they described as 'an old Doctor' who 'was smeared and streaked with red ochre and grease, with which his beard was also dressed'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal man
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 103
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal women; Anthony Cottrell
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 103-104
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A Aboriginal woman at Woolnorth was 'arranging several stones that were flat, oval, and about two inches wide, and marked in various directions with black and red lines'. These stones 'represented absent friends, and, one larger than the rest, a corpulent woman on Flinders Island, known by the name of Mother Brown'.
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal women; Mother Brown
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 104
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Anthony Cottrel, assistant to George Augustus Robinson, offered information to Backhouse & Walker regarding the family structure, body marking, and burial practices of Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land.
- Placename
- Woolnorth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head to Woolnorth
- People
- Aboriginal people; Anthony Cottrell
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 104-106
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Arrived at Circular Head on the Fanny found the Conch at the jetty, and was provided accommodation by Edward Curr.
- Placename
- Stanley, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head
- People
- Edward Curr
- Objects
- Fanny, Conch
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 107
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Met with the 'work-people' employed by the Van Diemen's Land Company, who were accommodated 'on the portion of the peninsula called Highfield Plain'.
- Placename
- Highfield, Stanley, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 107
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Op arrival at the Hampshire Hills they 'received a warm greeting from G. W. Walker's relations, George and Mary Robson'.
- Placename
- Hampshire, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head
- People
- G. W, Walker, George & Mary Robson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 112-113
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Accompanied by 'E. Curr and G Robson to Chilton, a farm house on the Surrey Hills'.
- Placename
- Guildford, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head
- People
- Edward Curr, George Robson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 114
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Accompanied Edward Curr and J Milligan 'as far as Emu Bay'.
- Placename
- Burnie, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- People
- Edward Curr, J Mulligan, Henry Hellyer
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 115
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The proceeded, with George Robson, to Burleigh, another of the Van Diemen's Land Company stations.
- Placename
- Guildford, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head
- People
- George Robson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 126
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Between the River Forth and Mersey Rivers was Gads Hill, where the descent was 'almost too steep for horses'.
- Placename
- Gad's Hill Road, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 127
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Arrived in Westbury, which consisted 'of a small number of weather-board houses, two of which are inns'. There they met the family of George P Ball, an officer lately returned from service in India'.
- Placename
- Westbury, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Circular Head
- People
- George P Ball
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 129-130
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Found 'comfortable accommodation for the night, at the Launceston Hotel', which was 113 miles from the Hampshire Hills.
- Placename
- Dicky Whites Lane, Launceston, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 130
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Took up quarters in Launceston at the home of Isaac and Katherine Sherwin until 21st March 1832.
- Placename
- Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- People
- Isaac & Katherine Sherwin
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 131
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On the way to Perth', they 'visited a company of prisoners'. Perth consisted 'of ten houses, two of which are inns' and was 'prettily situated on the high banks of the South Esk River'.
- Placename
- Perth, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 132
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At 'the house of Rowland R. Davies, the Episcopal Chaplain of Norfolk Plains' they 'met with a man who was transported from Wiltshire for rioting'.
- Placename
- Longford, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 133
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They were 'the guests of Theodore B. Bartley, of Kerry Lodge'.
- Placename
- Kerry Lodge Bridge, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- People
- Theodore Bartley
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 134
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
As Ross they 'lodged at the house of George Parramore, a venerable and pious settler, whom we considered it a privilege to visit'.
- Placename
- Ross, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- People
- George Parramore
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 135
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They 'breakfasted at Mona Vale, with William Kermode, an opulent sheep farmer'.
- Placename
- Mona Vale, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- People
- William Kermode
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 135
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
After visiting a 'road-party of 120 men' they pursued their 'route along the vale of Bagdad' which held 'several decent houses, and a good inn'.
- Placename
- Bagdad, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Launceston
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 136
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On arriving in Hobart Town, they became lodgers again with 'our friends T. J. and S. Crouch' in their large house in Bathurst Street.
- Placename
- Bathurst Street, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- Thomas and Sarah Crouch
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 136
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They were guided 'among the woody hills, by a narrow winding track, called Black Charleys Opening, to the Brushy Plains'.
- Placename
- Runnymede, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- East Coast
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 140
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They were 'hospitably entertained by' a settler 'named John Hawkins, in Little Swan Port, who had also been brought up to a military life'.
- Placename
- Little Swanport, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- East Coast
- People
- John Hawkins
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 141
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Stayed at 'Kelvedon, the residence of Francis and Anna Maria Cotton, and their large family ', whose home was 'more commodious than the houses of most settlers in this colony'. Their they met George Fordyce Story, M.D., District Surgeon.
- Placename
- Kelvedon Beach, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- East Coast
- People
- George Fordyce Story, Francis & Anna Maria Cotton
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 142-143
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They 'proceeded down the Break o'day Plains, and past the township of Fingal' which was 'marked only by barracks, occupied by five soldiers'.
- Placename
- Fingal, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- East Coast
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 146
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They reached 'John Batman's, on Buffalo Plains under Ben Lomond'.
- Placename
- Avoca, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- East Coast
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 147
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They arrived at Launceston to find a letter from 'W.J. Darling, from Flinders Island, dated Establishment for the Aborigines, formerly Pea-Jacket, now Wybalenna, 6th April, 1833', with a description of the housing at Wybalenna since their move on 1st February 1833.
- Placename
- Launceston, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- East Coast
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 148
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Set out to on an extended visit to Norfolk Plains and the Macquarie River, and on the way 'visited an interesting boarding-school for girls, at Ellenthorpe hall; and one for boys, on Norfolk Plains'.
- Placename
- 1321 Auburn Rd, Ross, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- East Coast
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 149
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Arrived in Horbart town 'on the 9th of the 8th month, having held regious meetings, and meetings for the promotion of temperance' at many towns between Launceston and Hobart.
- Placename
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 150
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At an initial meeting of the Society of Friends 'held on the 20th of 9th month, 1833, the certificates of George Washington Walker and myselfe, sanctioning our visit to the Southern Hemisphere, were read.'
- Placename
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- George Washington Walker
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 154
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Sailed on the Shamrock under Richard H. Davies, for their second visit to 'the Establishment for the Aborigines, on Flinders Island' with 'a party of sixteen Aborigines, who had joined G. A. Robinson, on the west coast'.
- Placename
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Hobart
- People
- Richard H Davies, George Augustus Robinson
- Objects
- Shamrock
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 165
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Shamrock 'anchored at the mouth of D'Entrecasteaux Channel, where the Government brig Isabella, with English emigrants for Launceston, and the Adelaide, a vessel in the Sperm Whale fishery, were lying’, and 'went ashore at Kelleys Farm, on Bruny Island'.
- Placename
- Dennes Point, North Bruny Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Port Arthur
- Objects
- Shamrock, Isabella, Adelaide
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 166
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Shamrock reached Port Arthur, which Backhouse considered to be 'greatly improved since we were here before, though much still requires to be done before it can be fully effective for the purpose of a Penal Settlement'.
- Placename
- Port Arthur, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Port Arthur
- Objects
- Shamrock
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 167
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Arrived '‘at the Lagoons, the site of the old settlement on Flinders Island, we made our way along the beach, and through the bush, to Wybalenna’.
- Placename
- Nalinga Creek, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 169
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At Wybalenna, they ‘received a hearty welcome from both the Black and the White Inhabitants; and were much pleased with the improvements, since we were here fourteen months ago’.
- Placename
- Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 169
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Visited Prime Seal Island, a granite island which 'did not prove favourable for sheep'. Backhouse described dietary restrictions, weaponry and skills of First Nations people.
- Placename
- Prime Seal Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 171-174
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Trip to Launceston and George Town, where they were joined by 'James Allen, from Tyrone, in Ireland, who was on his way to Flinders Island, to succeed A. Mc. Lachlan in the office of Surgeon to the Establishment for the Aborigines.'
- Placename
- George Town, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- People
- James Allen
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 171-174
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They 'put out to sea, but made little progress', stopping by Barren Joey and Twenty-day Islands.
- Placename
- Ninth Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 179
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On return to Flinders Island, they reached Wybalenna soon after sunset, and when ‘discovered by some women who were cutting wood’ were recognised ‘as old acquaintance, and gave us a clamorous greeting, which brought all the people and dogs out of their huts, with such a noise as, had we not known that it was the expression of friendship on the part of the people, would have been truly appalling’.
- Placename
- Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 180
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
After leaving Flinders Island, the Shamrock ran into a storm and was in danger of breaking up on rocks while at 'anchor under Green Island'.
- Placename
- Big Green Island, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Flinders Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 182-183
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Sydney
- Objects
- Henry Freeling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 230
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At sunset on 17 December 1834 Backhouse & Walker were on board the ketch Henry Freeling 'off Cape Howe, the southeast point of New South Wales' with the cape and adjacent coast 'faintly visible'. Backhouse reported that 'the sea had been rough much of the time' since they had left Hobart, and the 'roll of the vessel was so great after rounding Cape Pillar, as to make some of the oldest sailors on board sick'.
- Placename
- Cape Howe, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Sydney
- Objects
- Henry Freeling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 230
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The weather was fine when Backhouse & Walker 'passed Montagu Island, Mount Dromedary, and Point Dromedary' in the ketch Henry Freeling on 18 December 1834.
- Placename
- Montague Island, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Sydney
- Objects
- Henry Freeling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 231
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On 20 December 1834 the ketch Henry Freeling passed Botany Bay and entered the 'considerable estuary' Port Jackson, which was described as having 'numerous bays', some of which had 'sandy beaches' while others were 'very rugged'. The 'more even places' had been cleared and had 'houses erected upon them' with a few 'of imposing appearance'.
- Placename
- Port Jackson, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Sydney
- Objects
- Henry Freeling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 232
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Norfolk Island
- People
- Governor Richard Bourke
- Objects
- Henry Freeling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 245
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Norfolk Island
- Objects
- Henry Freeling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 250
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
In order to land on Norfolk Island, Backhouse & Walker had to be taken in a small boat, 'through a narrow opening in a reef' that fronted the island. On landing, they 'received a very kind welcome from the Commandant, who ordered a boat off' to bring their luggage on shore.
- Placename
- Kingston Jetty, Norfolk Island
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Norfolk Island
- People
- Major Joseph Anderson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 250
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Balls Pyramid was seen by Backhouse from the ketch Henry Freeling at sunrise on 10 April 1835, and they saw 'a high bluff of Lord Howes Island, towards sunset. The distance was only about thirty miles, but there was so much fog in the horizon, that the island was obscured most of the day'.
- Placename
- Ball's Pyramid, Lord Howe Island
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Norfolk Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 282
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The 'Heads of Port Stephens were in sight at noon' on 16 May 1835, and Backhouse reported that 'the weather was so rough as again' to make him sick, as had 'often been the case in the course of the voyage'. Backhouse recorded that the Henry Freeling was leaking and some of the company were at times alarmed, but he had been 'favoured to feel peaceful and content, yet pitying the seamen' who had 'to work hard at the pumps'.
- Placename
- Port Stephens, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Norfolk Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 284
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On 20 May 1835 Backhouse & Walker entered 'the Heads of Port Jackson in safety' and they were brought into Sydney Cove. They 'went on shore by a boat from the Government dock-yard, and found eighteen letters' waiting for them at the Post office, eleven of which were from friends in England.
- Placename
- Sydney Cove, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Norfolk Island
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 284
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Moreton Bay
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 354
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Sailing from Moreton Bay to Newcastle, the ship Isabella carrying Backhouse & Walker arrived 'into Port Hunter, tacking first to one side, and then to the other, close to the breakers' until they 'reached a place of safety, under a natural, though imperfect breakwater, terminated by an islet, called The Knobby'.
- Placename
- Nobbys Head, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 377-378
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker were welcomed in Newcastle by the Colonial Surgeon George Brooks. Newcastle was described as 'only a village of about forty houses, inclusive of a jail, a hospital and military barracks'
- Placename
- Newcastle, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- George Brooks
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 378
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
While working with George Brooks, Backhouse & Walker 'passed the burial ground, in which a detachment of an ironed-gang was at work, under an overseer, and three sentries'. Backhouse considered that 'these men had been occupied here about a month, in making improvements, that a quarter of their number of industrious men, would have effected in the same time' as 'work without wages proceeds slowly, by a natural consequence that is not at all reversed, by the work being imposed as the punishment of crime'.
- Placename
- Church Street, Newcastle, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 379
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Unable to proceed to Sydney because of storms, Backhouse & Walker decided to visit Ebenezer, on Lake Macquarie, where Lancelot Edward Threlkeld was employed by the Government, as a Missionary. They engaged Beerabahn, otherwise known as M'Gill asa guide. Beerabahn was described as 'a tall, intelligent man' and the 'chief' of the local Aboriginal people 'resorting thither'. Together they set out fro Ebenezer with another Aboriginal man called 'Boatman' or 'Boardman' and arrived at the home of L.E. Threlkeld as the sun set on 27 April 1836.
- Placename
- Ebenezer Mission, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal men; Beerabahn; M'Gill; Boatman; Boardman; Lancelot Edward Threlkeld
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 379-381
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Lancelot Edward Threlkeld had 'applied himself diligently to attaining the language' of Awabakal Aboriginal people and 'reducing it to writing, compiling a grammar, preparing a translation of the Gospel according to Luke, and some smaller selections from Scripture, also a vocabulary'. While operating the mission he also had to provide for his own family, which consists of nine children. Threlkeld walked with Backhouse & Walker to a woody point extending into the lake and spoke to some Aboriginal people who were fishing.
- Placename
- Coal Point, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal men; Lancelot Edward Threlkeld
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 381
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Three Aboriginal men rowed Threlkeld, Backouse & Walker to the site of the old missionary station at the head of Lake Macquarie. This station had been abandoned by the London Missionary Society and the Aboriginal people who had lived there were reported to have 'become dispersed among the settlers, towards Newcastle'.
- Placename
- Threlkeld Reserve, Coal Point, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal men; Lancelot Edward Threlkeld; London Missionary Society
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 381
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Threlkeld conveyed Backhouse & Walker, along with their guides Beerabahn and Boardman by boat to the head of Lake Macquarie to take the road to Newcastle.
- Placename
- Teralba, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal men; Beerabahn; M'Gill; Boatman; Boardman; Macquarie; Lancelot Edward Threlkeld
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 383
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On the way to Newcastle they were joined by an Aboriginal man named Macquarie. When the party reached Newcastle, the guides 'received their wages in bread, tea, sugar, and tobacco'.
- Placename
- Newcastle East, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal men; Beerabahn; M'Gill; Boatman; Boardman; Macquarie;
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 384
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker returned on the ship Ceres from Newcastle to Sydney, where they were visited several times by Aboriginal men Beerabahn (also known as M'Gill) and Boatman (also known as Boardman), who had been their guides and interpreters when travelling to the Ebenezer Mission. These Aboriginal men were in Sydney in order to act as interpreters at a trial alongside Lancelot Edward Threlkeld.
- Placename
- 195 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal men; Beerabahn; M'Gill; Boatman; Boardman; Macquarie;
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 385
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
While staying in Sydney, Backhouse and Walker were 'much occupied in sending books, and tracts to persons' whom they had visited over the course of their journey.
- Placename
- 195 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- Objects
- Correspondence
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 388
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker were 'furnished with letters of introduction' from their 'kind friend, the Colonel Secretary, to several settlers on the Hunter River', so they 'sailed by the Ceres steamer, for Maitland, and had a fine passage, the sea being so smooth as scarcely to give motion to the vessel'.
- Placename
- Darling Harbour, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Colonial Secretary Alexander McLeay
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 388
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 388
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Maitland was described as being 'aobut three miles from Green Hills' and consisting of 'a considerable number of houses, scattered by the sides of a soft road, for upwards of two miles, some of which' were 'substantially built of brick'. Backhouse & Walker found 'good accomodation at a hotel between Green Hills and Maitland'.
- Placename
- Newcastle Street, East Maitland, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 389
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker found that in Maitland 'a considerable number' of Aboriginal people 'were working for the inhabitants, as hewers of wood and drawers of water'.
- Placename
- Maitland, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 389
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'visited the Jail' which was described as 'a place of temporary confinement' before prisoners were transferred to Newcastle'. The Maitland Jail consisted 'of a few cells, enclosed within a high, wooden fence' and was 'said to be sometimes so crowded' that prisoners had 'to be brought into the yard to avoid suffocation'.
- Placename
- Maitland Gaol, 18 John Street, East Maitland, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 389
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
After holding a meeting in the Maitland Court House, Backhouse & Walker 'visited an ironed-gang, employed on the roads, under a military guard' and 'found them locked up in their caravans, out of which only one-third were allowed to come at a time, for exercise'. Backhouse reported that when the convicts were locked in 'only half of them can sit up, on the ends of the platforms, on which half of them sleep; the rest must sit back, with their legs at a right angle with their bodies'. On the arrival of Backhouse & Walker, these convicts 'were all turned out, counted, and then marched to a place, at a short distance, where they stood, with the guard of soldiers, under arms, behind them' in order to be addressed by the Quakers.
- Placename
- Maitland court house, 1 John Street, East Maitland, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 390
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'travelled westward through open, grassy forest, towards Harpers Hills' where an 'ironed-gang' were stationed. These convicts at Harpers Hills 'were working on the road, at a place where... there were marine fossils, sparingly imbedded in basalt'.
- Placename
- Harpers Hill, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 391
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
While journeying from Dalwood to Busby's Kirkton vineyard, Backhouse saw a kangaroo, which he noted was an animal that had 'become scarce in the settled parts' of New South Wales, 'where flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle... consume the thin grass of the continuous forests'.
- Placename
- Elderslie, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- James Busby
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 392
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
In June 1836 the 'town reserve of Muscle Brook' was 'marked by a small, weatherboard inn'. A few miles away was 'Arthurs Vale, a large farming establishment, belonging to Henry Dumaresq'. At Arthurs Vale, the prisoner-servants were numerous, and under excellent management'. Most were 'lodged in ten, neat cottages, with gardens attached' with 'wives of several of those of good conduct... permitted to join their husbands'.
- Placename
- Muswellbrook, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Henry Dumaresq
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 393
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'received a most kind welcome' at 'St Aubins, the residence of William Dumaresq', a property that they reported was 'conducted on a similar plan to that at Arthurs Vale, and with a similarly beneficial result'. At St Aubins Backhouse & Walker met the Quaker Charlotte Anley, author of 'The Prisoners of Australia'.
- Placename
- St Aubins Street, Scone, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts; Charlotte Anley; Henry Dumaresq
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 393
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 395
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'proceeded by the steamer Ceres' from Maitland to the 'mouth of the Williams River, and walked from thence to Raymonds Terrace'. At Raymonds Terrace they inspected 'a manufactory of superior, brown earthenware' which was 'one of the most successful of the few attempts that have been made to manufacture pots in the Australian Colonies'.
- Placename
- Raymond Terrace, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- Objects
- Earthenware pots
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 398
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
A 'boat belonging to the Australian Agricultural Company' conveyed Backhouse & Walker 'from Sawyers Point on the south-west of the estuary of Port Stephens, to Tarlee House, the residence of Henry Dumaresq, the Company's First Commissioner' whose family received them kindly.
- Placename
- Tahlee, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Henry Dumaresq; Australian Agricultural Company
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 399
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'visited the little village of Carrington' which was 'on the north shore of Port Stephens', and was 'composed of a few weather-board cottages, occupied by officers and servants of the Agricultural Company'. Backhouse reported that the few Aboriginal people who lived in the village of Carrington were 'kindly treated'.
- Placename
- Carrington, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal people; Australian Agricultural Company
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 399-400
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal people; Australian Agricultural Company
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 400-401
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At Wallarobba, Backhouse & Walker 'were very cordially received by a settler and his wife' who had 'maintained a kindly feeling' toward the local Aboriginal people, who lived 'about them in quietness and confidence, but who have been reduced in this neighbourhood, by various causes, among which has been the Small Pox, from about 200 to 60'.
- Placename
- Wallarobba, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 402
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On 23 July 1836 Backhouse & Walker left the Hunter Valley to return to Newcastle by the steamer Sophia Jane.
- Placename
- Maitland, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- Objects
- Sophia Jane
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 403
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 403
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'visited a detachment of fourteen men, belonging to a bridge and road-party, at the Iron-bark Creek, about eight miles from Newcastle, toward Maitland'. This group 'were gathered up' and 'at length collected in an overseer's hut' where Backhouse & Walker 'were strengthened to extend to them an invitation to turn to the Lord.'
- Placename
- Ironbark Creek, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 403
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On 30 July 1836, Backhouse & Walker 'embarked on board the steamer 'William the Forth' which left Newcastle for Port Macquarie where they arrived the following day.
- Placename
- Newcastle Harbour, New South Wales
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Newcastle & Hunter Valley
- Objects
- William the Forth
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 405
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 494-495
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora 'passed within a short distance of the Fourneaux Islands' noting that the 'Blossom &and the John Pierie, which sailed from Hobart a few days' the Eudora, 'were just leaving the anchorage under Preservation Island with a press of canvas that rendered them beautiful objects'.
- Placename
- Fourneaux Islands, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Blossom, John Pirie
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 496
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora 'passed to the southward of a high rock called 'The Pyramid', then 'passed in sight of Cape Schanck' before entering Port Phillip.
- Placename
- Pyramid Rock, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 496-497
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora 'made a good passage to the anchorage at Gellibrands Point, at the north-east angle of Port Phillip, passing up the eastern channel', and the ship was boarded by an 'officer, connected with the customs' who took their mail on shore.
- Placename
- Point Gellibrand, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 497
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal boys; George & Mary Langhorne
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 498
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
From the home of George & Mary Langhorne, Backhouse & Walker were taken 'four miles futher up the river to the dwelling of John & Mary Gardiner', where an Aboriginal man 'from the Merumbidgee River' was described as 'an 'efficient servant' who showed 'more reflection' than some who had 'been brought up, nominally, Christians'.
- Placename
- Gardiners Creek, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal man; John & Mary Gardiner
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 499
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker reported that the Port Phillip Missionary Station under George & Mary Langhorne had twelve Aboriginal boys 'under tuition', whose parents 'come to see them at pleasure, and when they wish it, take them out to hunt' but were these parents were 'not encouraged to made long visits'. Backhouse noted that at 'another station nearly twenty miles distant, about sixteen native families' had been 'marshalled as an armed police' and were 'clothed suitably for their occupation'.
- Placename
- Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal families; George & Mary Langhorne
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 502
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'called on John Batman, formerly of Buffalo Plains, in Van Diemens Land', who was described as 'much of an invalid' since he moved to Port Phillip. John Batman had 'in his employment', several Aboriginal people 'from the vicinity of Sydney', along with an Aboriginal woman and two Aboriginal boys from Tasmania, who were described as 'useful servants... not disposed to indulge in wandering habits' as they had been 'removed from their native haunts' and were in fear of the Aboriginal people in the surrounding area.
- Placename
- Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal people; John Batman
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 504
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Bachhouse & Walker 'dined with Captain Lonsdale, the Police Magistrate and commanding officer of the troops' with whom they discussed 'the importance of inquests being held' when Aboriginal people suffered 'violent or doubtful deaths, and of inquiry being made into cases of reported injury'. They were assured that this 'had in some measure, been attended to, particularly in one case, where several persons had been said to have been killed, but which proved a false report.'
- Placename
- Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal people; William Lonsdale
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 505
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Before leaving Port Phillip, Backhouse & Walker were presented by John Batman 'with some oval baskets, of neat and strong construction' which had been manufactured by local Aboriginal people.
- Placename
- Batman's Hill on Collins, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- John Batman
- Objects
- Aboriginal baskets
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 506
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 507
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
From 20th November 1837 until the 23rd, the 'wind was adverse' so the ship Eudora 'beat backward and forward, between Kings Island and Cape Otway'. The ship 'tacked when about fifteen miles from its north coast, to avoid a reef, on which the convict vessel Minerva was lost about two years previously.
- Placename
- Cape Otoway, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- Objects
- Eudora; Minerva
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 508
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On 24 November 1837 the Eudora, passed 'the flat-topped, roundish hills, to the east of Portland Bay, the table land of Cape Bridgewater, the low, extended hills of Cape Northumberland, and several other points of the coast'.
- Placename
- Cape Bridgewater, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 508
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse noted that the 'opening into St. Vincents Gulf by the Backstairs Passage' was maked by 'two little islands, called The Pages' and that a 'vast numbers of sea fowl, and some Seals of a yellowish colour with black muzzles, were upon one of the two little islands'.
- Placename
- The Pages, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 508
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
They anchored 'about five miles from shore in Holdfast Bay, South Australia' and waited on board while the captain went to Adelaide. Upon his return the next day Backhouse & Walker were taken through rough sea by boatmen who told them 'not to be afraid'. The boatmen were paid a pound each when the party was 'landed in a small creek at Glenelg, a place consisting of a few rude huts, one of which was used as a store'.
- Placename
- Holdfast Bay, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 509
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker were 'quickly conveyed over a flat country, covered with grass, and scattered trees of Eucalyptus, Acacia and Banksia, to the embryo capital of South Australia' where they 'received a kind welcome from John Barton Hack and his wife', who had both been acquaintances in England. The large Hack family 'were at this time dwelling... in a wooden house that they brought from England, in which they realized much more comfort than most of the other settlers did, in their rude huts, of rushes or of sods'.
- Placename
- Quaker Meeting House, Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- John Barton Hack
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 509
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker presented their letters of introduction from Sir John Franklin to 'the Governor, Captain John Hindmarsh, and on James H. Fisher, the Commissioner for the Sale of Lands', and then called on 'the Episcopal Clergyman, Charles B. Howard', and 'T.Q. Stow, the Independent minister.'
- Placename
- Government House, Adelaide, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Governor John Hindmarsh; Commissioner James Fisher; Charles Howard; Thomas Quinton Stow
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 510
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On 30 November 1837 Backhouse & Walker 'walked about seven miles to Port Adelaide' where they observed 'two large stores of corrugated iron, in the form of the halve of horizontal cylinders, and several smaller ones of rushes' as well as 'some huts and tents'. Shipping was able to 'come up the creek' and 'by means of a cut of 180 yards across the salt marsh' boats could discharge their cargoes close to the stores'.
- Placename
- Old Port Road, Port Adelaide, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 511
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 512
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse reported that the Aboriginal people in Adelaide were 'not numerous' and he believed these people were of an appearance 'much like those of other parts of Australia'. Backhouse observed that up until December 1837 only one European had lost his life through the actions of an Aboriginal person, but that this had been 'the result of his own profligacy'.
- Placename
- Pirltawardli, Adelaide, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Aboriginal people;
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 512
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 513
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'spent some time in conversation with the Commissioner for Lands', discussing Aboriginal people and 'the importance of promoting temperance among the settlers', some of whom had gotten an idea that the hotter climate justified 'more stimulating diet and drink', and that this notion had 'been promoted by an injudicious, medical man'.
- Placename
- Adelaide Survey Marker 1837, 102 Port Road, Adelaide, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Aboriginal people; James Fisher
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 513
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Aboriginal men
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 515-516
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Aboriginal people; Bridget Hack
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 516
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'accompanied Robert Cock, in making a call upon the Governor, to converse with him on the propriety of the appointment of a committee to assist the Protector' Both the Governor and the Protector concurred 'that such a committee might be useful'.
- Placename
- Government House, Adelaide, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Robert Cock; Walter Bromley; Governor John Hindmarsh
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 517
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker were back on board the Eudora on 16 December 1837 leaving South Australia for King Georges Sound. Backhouse reported that the wind was against them so they 'stood backward and forward, between Kangaroo Island and the small islands off York Peninsula'. Backhouse observed that Kangaroo Island was 'woody with grass in some places, but with deep gullies, and cliffs which were 'lofty, dark, and horizontally stratified'.
- Placename
- Investigator Strait, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 522
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse recalled the story of those who had, a few months before, 'landed from a vessel at the western end of the island, being tired with a long voyage, and thinking to make their way easily to Kings Cote, a settlement of the South Australian Company, on the eastern extremity. Some of the party reached this point, in a very exhausted state ; but the surgeon, and another person perished in the intricate bush'. Backhouse lamented that, 'Much danger attends strangers in any country, attempting to make their way from the coast, to distant places ; many have narrowly escaped death, in such attempts, in other parts of Australia'.
- Placename
- Harvey's Return, Cape Borda, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to South Australia
- People
- Dr John Slater; E.W. Osborne
- Objects
- Africaine
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 522
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
On the morning of 17 December 1837 the Eudora 'left the Gambier and Thistle Islands in Spencers Gulf, to the northward, and one of the Neptune Islands, to the southward'. Backhouse reported that seals, mutton birds and terns were numerous on Neptune island.
- Placename
- Neptune Islands, South Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 523
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora made 224 miles, between the noon of 17 December 1837 and the following day, and Backhouse reported that they 'were out of sight of land.
- Placename
- Great Australian Bight, Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 523
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora passed Bald Island and 'soon got sight of Mount Gardener and Bald Head', passing between them to sail into King Georges Sound, which Backhouse described as 'a fine bay, surrounded by hills, with an opening into an inner harbour, called Princess Royal Harbour, near the entrance', where the Eudora anchored.
- Placename
- Mount Gardener, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 523
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
At Albany, Backhouse and Walker were 'guests of George Cheyne' and 'his open-hearted wife' gave them 'a kind welcome'. Backhouse reported that although Albany was 'laid out as a town upon some maps', it had a small population and consisted of only 'a few, scattered cottages' with no baker's shop but 'four public-houses'.
- Placename
- Albany, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- People
- George Cheyne
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 523
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker called on the Government Resident, Sir Richard Spencer who received them kindly and made many inquiries for intellidence, which everyone in this sequestered spot seemed desirous of receiving'.
- Placename
- Strawberry Hill Farm, Albany, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- People
- Sir Richard Spencer
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 524
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker interviewed a 'magistrate from Oyster Harbour' regarding the Aboriginal people of the immediate district, commonly known 'by the designation of the King George tribe'. These peoplere were reported to be 'about fifty in number' and to 'live on good terms with the European inhabitants' of the area.
- Placename
- Oyster Harbour, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 525
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Before leaving Albany Backhouse & Walker 'breakfasted with Sir Richard and Lady Spencer, and walked with them, over their fine garden, and little farm', which were 'on one of the little patches of good land'. Backhouse reported that in the garden, 'Grapes, Figs, Almonds, Peas, Potatoes, &c. are very thriving' and on the farm there was 'a good crop of Wheat, where the land has been manured'.
- Placename
- Strawberry Hill Farm, Albany, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 526
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
After leaving King Georges Sound on 27 December 1837 on board the Alice, they 'made good progress' to 'get nicely to sea again', passing Vancouvers Reef and Eclipse Island to sail past White Topped Rocks that night.
- Placename
- Eclipse Island, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- Objects
- Alice
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 528
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- Objects
- Alice
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 528
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse described the town of Freemantle as having a population of about 200, and as 'situated behind a little promontory of limestone, at the mouth of an estuary, called Melville Water' with limestone houses which were 'going to decay' in 'consequence of the seat of Government having been removed to Perth'.
- Placename
- Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 529-530
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
In Perth, Backhouse & Walker were welcomed by Major Irwin. They were escorted to call on the Governor and Lady Stirling who received them kindly, and were introduced to the Colonial Chaplain. They lodged in Perth 'in the homely dwelling of the widow of a Colonial Surgeon'.
- Placename
- Stirling Gardens, Perth, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to King Georges Sound and Swan River
- People
- Governor and Lady Stirling
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 530
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse and Walker, 'having concluded a visit to the Australian Colonies… sailed from Freemantle in Western Australia' on 12 February 1838 onboard the Abercromby under Captain J B Butcher.
- Placename
- Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- People
- Captain J B Butcher
- Objects
- Abercromby
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 1
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
On 3 March 1838 the ship Abercromby under Captain J B Butcher passed to the northward of the island of Rodrigue.
- Placename
- Rodrigues, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- People
- Captain J B Butcher
- Objects
- Abercromby
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 2
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
On 7 March 1838 Ile Rond, or Round Island was 'descried at five or six eagues distance, and soon after the rugged mountains of the Mauritius, or Isle of France'.
- Placename
- Round Island, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 2
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Arriving at the harbour at Port Louis, Backhouse and Walker found a considerable number of vessels, with boats manned by a wide variety of 'men of colour' which 'presented a very foreign appearance to an English eye'.
- Placename
- Port Louis, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 3
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse described Port Louis as 'beautifully situated on the west side of Mauritius, in a cove formed by a series of basaltic hills' with narrow streets laid out at right angles and basaltic curbstone footpaths.
- Placename
- Port Louis, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 3
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker were introduced to the Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, Captain George F Dick, who arranged their visit to the Governor.
- Placename
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- People
- Captain George F Dick
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 5
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
George Clark, 'the master of the school of the Mico Charity in Port Louis' invited Backhouse and Walker to join him in a visit to Mapou.
- Placename
- Mapou, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- People
- George Clark
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 16
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker 'obtained leave to visit the prisons' in Port Louis, and after 'breakfasting with the Colonial Secretary' they left in company of 'L. Banks, one of the Episcopal Chaplains' to inspect the 'two principal prisons and the Military Hospital'.
- Placename
- Old Prison Compound, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- People
- L Banks
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 19
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker accompanied their 'friends George and Jane Clark in a ride to Pamplemousses, and spent a little time in the Botanic Garden'.
- Placename
- Pamplemousses, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 27
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker 'crossed the island to Mahebourg, in company with John le Brun, to visit two more schools of the Mico Charity'.
- Placename
- Mahebourg, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- People
- John le Brun
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 28
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Accompanied 'by a young man from one of the Seychelles islands', Backhouse and Walker 'took a walk, crossing the country' from Port Louis to the Grand Riviere.
- Placename
- Grand River, Mauritius
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 41
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Mauritius
- People
- George Grey
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 57
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Sailing from Mauritius, Backhouse and Walker 'had a fine view of the French Island of Bourbon, or Mascarenhas, which Backhouse described as very mountainous with an active volcano emitting smoke on the south-east part of the island.
- Placename
- Reunion Island
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 59
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Sailing from Mauritius to Cape Town, Backhouse and Walker sighted the coast of Africa near the mouth of the Keiskamma River.
- Placename
- Keiskammarivier, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 63
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 65
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
On arrival at Cape Town, Backhouse and Walker 'were greeted on the beach' by an 'old school-fellow, Thomas Laidman Hodgson' whom Backhouse 'had not seen for nearly thirty years' and was now the Superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions in that part of South Africa. The also received a kind welcome from Dr. Philip, of the London Missionary Society before preceding to the post office were they were greeded by fourteen letters.
- Placename
- Foreshore, Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
- People
- Thomas Laidman Hodgson; Dr. Philip
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 66
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
After dining with William Henry Harvey, the Colonial Treasurer, Backhouse and Walker 'walked with him through the Kloof, between Table Mountain and the Lion Hill' where the scenery was very grand.
- Placename
- Kloof Nek, Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
- People
- William Henry Harvey
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 70
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker 'accompanied Dr and Jane Philip, John Williams and some other persons in a visit to Simons Town' where they found 'little more than a single row of houses, well painted and whitewashed, between the sea and the foot of a steep mountain'. They were accomodated with Richard and Mary Jennings, and visted the Government School and the Wesleyan Chapel.
- Placename
- Simon's Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Dr and Jane Philip; John Williams; Richard and Mary Jennings
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 73-76
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
After Backhouse and Walker sought advice from Thomas L Hodgson and George Thompson regarding their travel plans within South Africa, they 'spent some time in putting up some Reports of the Aborigines Protection Society, to send to persons of influence in various parts of Australia'.
- Placename
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Thomas L Hodgson; George Thompson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 80
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker 'accompanied T.L. Hodgson to a school beloning to the Wesleyans, situated in Sydney-street, a district of the town in which many poor Irish and Coloured people reside'. Hodgson recommended that the Friends 'employ Richard Jennings in a school of this sort in Cape Town' as Jennings intended to 'devote himself to the education of children in Africa'.
- Placename
- Sydney Street, Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Thomas L Hodgson; Richard Jennings
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 85-86
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker travelled in covered carts yoked to oxen, reaching the village of Somerset at the end of September 1838. There they were hosted by John Edgar, minister of the Dutch Church.
- Placename
- Somerset West, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- John Edgar
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 90-92
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker interviewed convicts who were working on the raod at 'Houw Hoek, Cut Corner, contiguous to the village of Houw' and they reported that 'they were lodged in a poor hut, but said they had nothing to complain of in regard to victuals'.
- Placename
- Houw Hoek, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 97
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker visited the Genadendal mission, which they described as 'the oldest in South Africa'. At the time of their visit 1,500 people lived at the mission, supervised by seven missionary couples and an aged widow.
- Placename
- Genadendal, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Missionaries
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 97-100
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
At Zwellendam, which Backhouse described as 'a long straggling village of pretty apprearance with neat, white houses, some English, some Dutch in style', they were visited by Civil Commissioner Harry Rivers and Minister William Robertson. They inspected the school, town library and prison, which they found to be 'clean and tolerably commodious'.
- Placename
- Swellendam, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Harry Rivers; William Robertson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 104-106
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Walker sketched the 'Missionary Station at Zuurbraak' where about 850 Khoikhoi people resided, half of whom were children. They were accompanied by 'two of the sons of Henry Helm, the Missionary of the London Missionary Society's station at Zuurbraak'. They toured the British and Foreign School Society where about 140 male and female students were taught by Daniel Helm and his wife.
- Placename
- Suurbraak, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Henry Helm; Daniel Helm
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 107-110
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
An inspection of the South African Missionary Society at Zoar found three to four hundred Khoikhoi people who were farming 'an extensive tract of land, chiefly rocky, karroo hills' with 200 acres of fertile land by the side of the river.
- Placename
- Zoar, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 114-116
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
On their arrival at Pacaltsdorp, Backhouse & Walker were greeted at the London Missionary Society by Missionary William Anderson, as well as Dr Philip and his wife Jane. School master Thomas Hood provided them with a tour of the Pacaltsdorp estate which was owned and cultivated by about 600 Khoikhoi people.
- Placename
- Pacaltsdorp, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Dr & Jane Philip; William Anderson; Thomas Hood
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 125-129
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
While pursuing their 'journey in the Lange Kloof… and extensive valley between ranges of lofty hills with farms at distant intervals' Backhouse & Walker, in the company of a team of men from Pacaltsdorp, were approached by local Afrikaan farmers who fired shots in their direction when provided with religious tracts.
- Placename
- Langkloof, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 139
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
As they approached the Missionary Station in Hankey Backhouse and Walker were 'cheered by hearing infant voices singing hymns in English'. They had arrived 'in time to join a considerable congregation' who were celebrating 'the memorable day on which slavery ceased in the Cape Colony'. The toured the mission accompanied by Missionary Edward Williams.
- Placename
- Hankey, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Edward Williams
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 144-145
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
In Bethelsdorp Backhouse and Walker found 'a square of whitewashed, red-tiled, stone houses, and several other houses and cottages arranged as little streets' in an area which had 'long suffered severely from droughts'. They inspected a school which conducted lessons in Dutch for adults and in English for children and infants.
- Placename
- Bethelsdorp, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 155-156
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Daniel Lindley; Adam and Elizabeth Robson
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 157
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- John George Messer; Alexander Smith
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 162
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
At Uitenhaga, the District Surgeon accompanied Backhouse and Walker on a tour of the jail and hospital. Backhouse reported that the jail 'was an inefficient place, badly ventilated' with 'small yards, unenclosed by any outer wall, and aome grated windows open to the road'. The witnessed one of the prisoners heavily ironed.
- Placename
- Kariega, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 170
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
On approaching Grahams Town, Backhouse and Walker were 'struck with the uninviting appearance of the site' which Backhouse described as 'a naked country at the foot of a low, rocky standstone ridge'. They were cordially welcomed by 'William Wright, a native of Ireland'. Grahams Town at that time had 4000 inhabitants, almost exclusively of English descent.
- Placename
- Makhanda, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- William Wright
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 173-174
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 177
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker crossed Great Fish River to arrive at 'Hermanes Kraal or Fort Brown, a small solitary station' where they provided the stationed inhabitants with religious tracts, a Dutch New Testiment and a Dutch language copy of Pilgrim's Progress.
- Placename
- Fort Brown, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 179
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
The Assistant Commissary General, J. J. Smith, greeted Backhouse and Walker when they arrived at Fort Beaufort. Backhouse reported that Fort Beaufort consisted chiefly of 'military barracks, a few cottages occupied by officers, some soldiers' huts, and a few stores'. A Wesleyan chapel was in course of erection and a school house in the mean time accommodated the congregation.
- Placename
- KwaMaqoma, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- J. J. Smith
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 181
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Joseph Read; James Read; Richard Birt
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 183-184
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker 'met a kind reception' at Igquibigha Station from Robert Niven who resided there in a 'stone house consisting of a few plain rooms, one of which was used for a school'.
- Placename
- Dikeni, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Robert Niven
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 224-226
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Robert Niven accompanied Backhouse and Walker to 'Burns Hill, another station of the Glasgow Missionary Society, which was under the direction of James Laing, who was assisted by Alexander McDarmid, a pious artizan'.
- Placename
- Burnshill, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Robert Niven; James Laing; Alexander McDarmid
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 229
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
James Laing accompanied Backhouse and Walker to Pirie, 'another Station of the Glasgow Missionary Society'. Backhouse described Pirie as consisting of 'a plain house of unhewn basalt and a little mud-walled chapel'. They were welcomed at Pirie by 'John and Ellen Ross, who were worthy Scotch people with four children of their own, and performing the part of foster-parents to the motherless son of James Laing'.
- Placename
- Pirie Mission, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- James Laing; John and Ellen Ross
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 234
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- J.L. Doehne; Julius Schuldheis
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 242
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- William McDowell Fynn; Elizabeth Ann Weeks; Chief Rhili
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 250-255
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Fitkani Chiefs, N'capai and Faku; William Fynn; Jabez Bunting
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 255
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Jabez Bunting; Richard Watson; Chief of the Amatembu Tambookie
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 256-257
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Tambookie from Clarkbury escorted Backhouse and Walker to the mission at Morley with a population of about 300 people. Backhouse described Morley as a 'flourishing Station' comprising of a brick mission house and chapel, two wattle-and-daub cottages, and numberous huts.
- Placename
- Mzanduli, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Chief of the Amatembu Tambookie
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 260-261
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Thomas and Jemima Wakeford welcomed Backhouse and Walker to the Buntingville mission, with a population of about 500 people. The school at Buntingville 'had about eighty pupils, eighteen of whom were able to red the Scriptues in their own tongue.'
- Placename
- Buntingville, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- Thomas and Jemima Wakeford
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 263-265
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Mzanduli, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Clarkbury, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Gcuwa, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Makhanda, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Glen Avon, KwaNojoli, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Jammerberg, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Platberg, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Beaufort West, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Backhouse and Walker returned to Cape Town via Morley, Clarkbury, Butterworth, Grahams Town, Glen Avon, Jammerberg, Platberg. Philippolis, Beaufort, and Ebenezer.
- Placename
- Ebenhaeser, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 268-627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
Upon returning to Cape Town, Backhouse and Walker 'were so much exhausted as to not be equal to great exertio for several weeks'. Backhouse 'purchased a house which had been erected for a school-house, near the junction of Buiten Street with Long Street'.
- Placename
- Buiten Street, Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 627
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
As Backhouse made preparations to leave Cape Town to return to England after nine years of travelling, Walker 'thought it might be the right time for him to look out for a vessel bound for Hobart Town, as he had a view of returning thither to settle'. Walker found that the Hamilton Ross was at the Cape preparing to sail for Hobart, and Walker 'engaged a passage on board this vessel'.
- Placename
- Foreshore, Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 637
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
After 'taking leave of many kind friends in Cape Town' Backhouse 'embarked on board the schooner Invoice, laden with coffee from the West Indies'. William Proudfoot, Richard Jennings, Daniel Steedman, and James Thwaits accompanied Backhouse on board the Invoice and remained for some time to see him off. The Invoice 'made sail about noon, and left Table Mountain far behind before night'.
- Placename
- Foreshore, Cape Town, South Africa
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- William Proudfoot; Richard Jennings; Daniel Steedman; James Thwaits
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 645
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
On 21 December 1840, Backhouse reported that the 'island called St. Helena was in view… steep and mountainous'. Here they 'transferred a few letters to a Dutch ship which was making for the port' before continuing on their journey back to England.
- Placename
- St Helena
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 645
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
When crossing the Equator, Backhouse reported that the weather was extremely hot. The deck was so dry that the 'pitch was softened in the seams between the planks, and the wood was too hot to allow of persona walking upon it without shoes'.
- Placename
- Atlantic Ocean
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 646
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
As the schooner Invoice 'passed between the islands of Fayal and Flores among the Azores' the islands were not visible 'in consequence of a fog'.
- Placename
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 646
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
After losing a man overboard near the Scilly Islands, the schooner Invoice entered the English Channel on the 12 February 1841, soon sighting land off Bolt Head.
- Placename
- English Channel
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 647
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
Sources
On 15 February 1841, Backhouse 'went on board of a steamer and landed at London Bridge after an absence of nine years and five months' from his 'native land'. He made his way to the house of his friends John and Isabel Kitching at Stamford Hill, where he was soon joined by one of his sisters. Six days later Backhouse was reunited with his children, whom he 'had left young' and found that they 'were so much grown and altered' that he 'could not have identified them'.
- Placename
- London Bridge, London, United Kingdom
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- South Africa
- People
- John and Isabel Kitching
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 648
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/906512
