AUSTRALIAN History 📜

Australia’s cedar getters:
“They are the roughest of the rough fellows, muscular as a working bullock, hairy as a chimpanzee, obstinate as a mule, simple as a child, generous as the slave of Aladdin’s lamp. A fondness for rum and a capacity for absorbing vast quantities of that liquid is among their prominent characteristics. They are also in the habit of ‘bruising’ each other upon the smallest provocation, and it is a noticeable fact that one of the surest modes of securing the friendship of a cedar getter is to knock him down. He will probably return the compliment with interest and reduce your features into an unrecognisable condition, but he will never be your firm friend. There is a good deal of rude honour about these fellows. Thus, if one chance to light upon a cedar fall, none of the others will attempt to cut even a tree out of the group.”

Author: John Vader from the book ‘Red Cedar.’ Photo courtesy of Coffs Harbour Regional Museum.
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