The pikes were decorated with the tri-colored ribbons.

Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.

She said that her mother brought them out to Australia in a baule — a huge glory box — along with blankets, kitchen utensils, crockery, and 32 litres of olive oil in tins. Tucked in this glory box, the linens travelled in the hull of a ship from Naples across oceans and seas, on a train from Sydney to Stanthorpe, by horse and cart to Applethorpe and later by ute to Brisbane.

The first was a school of medium-sized ( 10-pound average ) fish that breezed frequently but bit poorly.