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freediver wrote on Jun 13 th, 2012 at 6:31pm: Falah, were you equally selective with your truth in putting together your thesis? I would imagine most of your evidence was written down by white christian immigrants. Freeliar, barely any of my thesis relies on the words of white Christian immigrants. It relies largely on the work of scientists such as arechaeologists, anthropologists and historians, as well as the words of explorers and Indigenous people. freediver wrote on Jun 13 th, 2012 at 6:31pm: Does that give you an intellectual license to ignore everything they say that contradicts your views on the grounds that they cannot be trusted, but at the same time use everything from them, no matter how insignificant, that supports your views?
Freeliar, in my thesis can be found opinions of those experts who argue that the influence of Macassans was strong. It also contains the opinions of the fewer experts who argued that the Macassan influence was not so significant, and my thesis says why they are wrong and summarises they main points of evidence for this, as well as introducing new evidence to the argument. freediver wrote on Jun 13 th, 2012 at 6:31pm: It would certainly explain your preference for using off-hand opinions about potential farmability from people who have never farmed, above the wealth of evidence that is actually relevant and informed. Freeliar, if you were sincerely interested in the farmability of Arnhem Land you would have read the 1888 newspaper article I posted in the other thread about the farm in East Arnhem Land established in 1885: Quote:[b]...The absence of white ants will prove an especial boon to the station garden, or it will allow of the growth to maturity of the, various fruit-trees that in Port Darwin are piped out and weakened by the ant, and blown down by the first puff of wind. Among the trees in the Florida garden that seldom get a chance to mature in Darwin were noticed mangoes, guavas, papaya, oranges, lemons, cocoanuts, dates, tamarinds, and one or two other kinds of Chinese fruits. The garden also contains pomegranates, figs, sisyphus, mulberries, bananas, custard apples, pineapples, passion fruit, water and sweet melons. Among the vegetables are yams, sweet potatoes, English potatoes, eschalotts, radishes, 'long reds,' 12 to 15 inches long and 3 inches thick, 'turnip' radishes bigger than ordinary turnips, splendid lettuces with big solid hearts — quite a treat after the small leafy ones in Port Darwin — cucumbers up to 6 lb. weight, Chinese cabbage, English and Chinese beans, pie-melons, pumpkins of two kinds — one pumpkin vine yielded 622 lb. of fruit. Watermelons run up to 20 to 30 lb . weight and solid right through ; they bear all the year round. Two years ago they received a lot of fruit trees and plants from the Government Experimental Garden at Fannie Bay; amongst them were three rooted cuttings of mulberries, two of which died, and about fifty pineapple plants. When the only mulberry started into growth cuttings were made, and there are now fifteen trees, some of which are from 12 to 15 feet high, and cover a diameter of fully 20 feet. They are all loaded with fruit, rich black mulberries, quite equal for size and flavour to those grown in the southern colonies, but the great beauty about these trees is that they bear for nine months in the year, resting in June, July, and August. The fifty pineapple plants have increased to over 700, nearly all in bearing, some having two or three pines on a plant; they bear all the year round; some of the fruit taken as they came weighed 5 lb. each. With plenty of fruit all through the year, plenty of fresh milk and butter, game and fish in profusion, and cool breezes all the time, it is little wonder that all hands are healthy. ' [South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 5 January 1888]
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