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| Keywords: Henry Laing Establishment of James Munro.jpg en Henry Laing A view in Tasmania - Preservation Island off SW corner of Cape Barren Island; view of the establishment of James Munro in centre on broad plain surrounded by cluster of trees 1831 Pen and grey ink and watercolour John Lort Stokes Discoveries in Australia Volume 2 Chapter 13 London 1846 I found Preservation Island inhabited by an old sealer of the name of James Monro generally known as the King of the Eastern Straitsmen Another man and three or four native women completed the settlement if such a term may be applied They lived in a few rude huts on a bleak flat with scarce a tree near but sheltered from the west by some low granite hills; a number of dogs goats and fowls constituted their livestock In this desolate place Monro had been for upwards of twenty-three years; and many others have lived in similar situations an equally long period It is astonishing what a charm such a wild mode of existence possesses for these men whom no consideration could induce to abandon their free though laborious and somewhat lawless state British Museum Henry Laing 1831 PD-old Watercolor paintings of landscapes Islands of Tasmania | ||||
