Johnson F. Hayward. Incidents in my Australian life: life on a sheep station 1846-1856

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The account begins with a brief description of Hayward's voyage from London to Adelaide, accompanied by his brother, on the Phoebe in 1846-47. He was immediately engaged by Price Maurice to work on a sheep run at Pekina, 180 miles north of Adelaide. Hayward describes the journey to Pekina, via the Burra copper mines, the erection of slab huts, a store, woolshed and shearing yards, the wages of shepherds and hut-keepers, relations with Indigenous Australians, sheep-stealing, neighbouring stations, the isolated life, dingoes, lambing and other work on the station, emu and kangaroo hunting, sheep-stealing, exploration, the arrival of his brother Charles Hayward (1850), the departure from Pekina and lease of properties at Black Rock Hill and Yudna (1850), his move to Aroona (1851),droving sheep from Encounter Bay to Aroona, the settling of Aroona and establishment of out-stations, neighbours at Wilpena and Arkaba, campaigns against Indigenous Australians, journeys with bullock trays, the death of James grant and his companion in the bush (1854), the founding of Port Augusta, wool production, and exploration of the western side of Lake Torrents. There is an index at the end of the work. (typescript, 105pp)

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