The Adventures of Martin Cash

By Martin Cash.

Comprising a faithful account of his exploits, while a bushranger under arms in Tasmania, in company with Kavanagh and Jones, in the year 1843. “The subjoined sketches of buskranging life in Van Diemen’s Land were strung together in the form of a narrative, at the solicitation of a. number of respectable and influential colonists in Tasmania, Sydney, -and Melbourne, particularly the former territory, where the principal incidents described in the narrative occurred ; and where many are still living who can vouch for the fidelity of the pictures of Bush Life which are delineated in the following pages, illustrative of the evils arising from the misapplication and undue severity of prison discipline in the- early days of the Colony. It is not with a view of extolling his exploits, or those of lies companions when under arms in the Bush, nor yet of presenting himself in the character of a hero, that the Author has been induced to narrate his adventures, his chief object being to present a faithful portraiture of the modus operandi of that discipline so indiscriminately exercised without reference to individuals or the moral, or physical capabilities of that unfortunate class to which it was applied ; and at the same time endeavouring to show that the social and moral condition of the Colony was mainly affected by the exercise of that discipline, the rigours of which had driven numbers of the more deserving of that class to finish their wretched career on the scaffold ; but who under a. a more humane svstem of coercion might have been restored to freedom.”

Hobart Town: Printed at the "Mercury" Steam Press, 1870. 177p.