Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Discovery of New Holland. 1605–1795. Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese voyagers; 2. Military riots at Sydney. 1796–1806. Intelligence of the capture of the Cape of Good Hope; 3. Bligh favourably received. 1806–16. Bligh's reception; 4. Oxley explores the interior. 1817–26. Erskine lieutenant-governor; 5. The colonists demand trial by jury and a representative legislature. 1827–30. The Botany aqueduct; 6. The colonists still demanding constitutional freedom. 1831–3. Monetary distresses; 7. The Governor popular. 1834–5. Assignment regulations; 8. The Darling explored a second time. 1836–8. The surveyor-general a second time visits the Darling; Index.

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Published after his death in 1862, Flanagan's chronicle demonstrates the author's enthusiastic, but politically impartial, approach to Australian history.