Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894

acres arrived attend Australia Ballarat barley breakfast brought Bullarook Bush fires bushels Cardiganshire Castlemaine cattle cayenne pepper Colony composed corn cost cottage council crops daughter David Evans diary diggers englyn farm farmers feet firewood flood fodder four garden gold grass hard harrowing harvest heavy rain horses Hotel Iolo Morganwg Jenkins John Lewis labour land Learmonth letter load Maldon manure Master meal Melbourne miles months morning Mount Bolton Ned Kelly never night oats paddock paid plenty ploughing potatoes pound railway Rheola road sermon sheep sleep Smeaton soil South Wales sowing split timber St David's Day stack stay straw Sunday swag swagmen Tarnagulla thatching threshing tons took town trees Tregaron verse Victoria wage Wales walk Walmer weather week Welsh wheat yards young