happy-hunting-ground

Updated: May 11, 2025

Here, towards the end of the summer, the blacks used to reap their harvest of fat eels, which they drew forth from the soft mud under the roots of the tussocks. The country between the sea and the mountains was the happy-hunting-ground of the natives before the arrival of the ill-omened white-fellow.

George Dunderdale - The Book of the Bush: Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial: Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others: Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned