Excerpt from Stories of Australia: In the Early Days The extent of the Governor's authority by this commission is defined to reach from 43 30' south to lat. 100 37' south 5 and commencing again at the 1350 of longitude east of Greenwich, it proceeds in an easterly direction, and includes all islands within the limits of the specified latitudes in the Pacific Ocean? As far as regarded his authority over his governed subjects, he was absolute; he had no council; he could imprison at will, and pardon at will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.