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| ‘When you see John Basson Humffray, you have at once before you a gentleman, born of a
good old family; his manners confirm it, and his words indicate an honest
benevolent heart, directed by a liberal mind, entangled perhaps by too
much reading of all sorts, perplexed at the prosperity of the vicious, and
the disappointment of the virtuous in this mysterious world of ours... His
voice, that of a tenor, undulating and clear, never obstreporous, enables
his tongue to work the inte nded charm... but the semi-earnestness of his
address, his cool sort of John Bull smile, betray that his heart does not
always go with his head. Hence he has many enemies... I cannot possibly
mean any thing dishonourable to our old mate... He was, is, and ever will
be, John Basson Humffray, Esquire, of Ballarat; Honi soi qui mal y
pense.’ Raffaello Carboni, The Eureka stockade: the consequence of some pirates wanting on quarter-deck a rebellion. Melbourne, J.P. Atkinson, 1855, pp. 30-31. |
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