Media: BOOK - paperback 288 pages, 80 illustrations
Author: J. Casanova
Year: 1992

From the Introduction

Youth spent along the furthest south coasts of Eyre Peninsula and a belief that little was known of the whalers and sealers who first came there, drove this writer’s first efforts to tell their story. It was clear that the pioneering stockholders, graziers, farmers and hunters who followed after 1839 were also passing into legend and misreport and their history should be told. Their stock movements, reasons for their success or failure, and the full scope of their activities had long term effect. The settlements and small ports that later grew near, or along, the coasts of Eyre Peninsula have been covered from local sources in the series of books which appeared with Australia’s bicentennial celebrations. This writing hopes to avoid incursions into the field well covered already but has tried to light those aspects not elsewhere mentioned or detailed.

The earlier Port Lincoln of metalled, or no, roads, single jetty, coastal vessels and kerosene lamps of 1900 and earlier, is mentioned. Its twentieth century growth toward deep sea berths involving large overseas shipping, handling and exporting millions of tons of grain, city status and importance as fishing port, tourist resort and centre for much of Eyre Peninsula’s educational and departmental affairs awaits another pen. The islands about Lower Eyre Peninsula, now vying for attention as jewels in the tourist crown Port Lincoln hopes to fashion, all played an early part in settlement or history. The stories of Flinders, Thistle, Wedge, Taylor, Boston, Spil-sby, Reevesby and Louth Islands, and smaller islets operated from them, should be written before too much becomes forgotten or replaced by fiction less moving.

Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Whalers and Sealers
Chapter 2: Land, Titles, Security
Chapter 3: Hawson’s Run
Chapter 4: Grass to the Stirrup Irons
Chapter 5: Northward from Port Lincoln
Chapter 6: Reports from the West
Chapter 7: Tolmer’s Map 1846
Chapter 8: Price and Hardy
Chapter 9: Guano—Industry on the Islands
Chapter 10: Guano—Arthur Leech
Chapter 11: Guano—the Haighs
Chapter 12: To Moonahy and Beyond
Chapter 13: Murninnie
Chapter 14: Levi and Lewis
Chapter 15: Will Morgan’s Diary, 1893
Chapter 16: Roads from Port Lincoln
Chapter 17: Last Post for the Shepherd
Chapter 18: The Governor on Eyre Peninsula
Chapter 19: Problems and Pitfalls
Chapter 20: Alfred H. King
Chapter 21: John Seawell King
Chapter 22: The Malcolms and Mr Malcolm’s Run
Chapter 23: At Little Swamp
Chapter 24: Inspector Henry Holroyd
Chapter 25: Henry Holroyd, Pastoralist
Chapter 26: The Hunters
Chapter 27: The Resumptions of1888-90
Chapter 28: Uley
Chapter 29: From Sinclair’s Hand
Chapter 30: Uley—The Fifties On
Chapter 31: The Warrow Run and Elder and Peter
Chapter 32: Price Maurice at Warrow
Chapter 33: A Noose Around Warrow
Chapter 34: Settlement of Warrow—Lake Wangary
Chapter 35: Warwick’s Diary at Warrow 1862...
Chapter 36: Warrow, Coulta, Lake Wangary
Chapter 37: The Coffin Bay Run
Chapter 38: Martin Cash at Coffin Bay
Chapter 39: The End of Coffin Bay Run
Chapter 40: Borthwick’s Mikkira
Chapter 41: The Brothers Browne, Briefly
Chapter 42: Browne’s Mikkira, Magarey’s Tulka
Chapter 43: Magarey Taken for a Ride
Chapter 44: Chapmans at Tulka
Chapter 45: Mikkira—Hugh Dobbins
Chapter 46: Mikkira After Resumption
Chapter 47: Sleaford: Blacks and Theakstones
Chapter 48: Maty Ellis Wreck
Chapter 49: Duck Ponds and Uley
Chapter 50: The Oswalds and Eepeegee
Chapter 51: The Chapmans and the Ritchies...
Chapter 52: Wanilla Forest
Chapter 53: The Fountain Area
Chapter 54: The Graphite Mine Block
Chapter 55: Cobbler Hut, Browne’s Paddock or Pantania
Chapter 56: Follett’s West Cape
Chapter 57: The Hundred of Flinders
Chapter 58: To West Cape by Motor Vehicle mid 1914
Chapter 59: A Cycle Completed
Appendix A: Reminiscences of Flinders Island by Joe Sawyer, c.1889
Appendix B: Reminiscences by Mrs Rope Hurrell, nee Lock
Index