"I have made a very Bad Calculation"

95 in all we spent about £ 250. We done well for about 3 years, I carrying this business, I was selling drinks without a license, so one I was find £ 50, and spent another £ 50 to try and defend my case, but lost it, Close to my place there was a quarz claim, which was sold for £ 20’000. I thought there was a splendid chance so I took up a claim, with another man, put down a deep shaft by blasting through sandstone, but when we got down to the quarz reef we diden see the color of gold. At the age of 6 years, I went to school to a prist school-master, and when 8 years old in 1839 I went to the Government secular and conpulsory school, and followed up to 17 years of age at the college. Leonardo Pozzi did not find his fortune in Australia, yet he perservered and lived the rest of his life in Victoria, with the exception of a few years in New Zealand. We have New Zealand as an example, for when that country was ruled by the aristocracy, that country was rouined, and people had to leave by the thousand, every week from a country full of rich natural advantages.

This country will never prosper until the industrial army are treated fairly, which can not be expected from disputing - rulling with a privileged upper house, and aristocratic misleading newspapers, but if the labour party gets into rulling power, all this will be altered for general prosperity the same as in New Zealand. In concluding this long historical letter I feel happy to know that all my family, and their respective families are at present in a very satisfactory state of health, and with my hearty whishes for a permanent future helth, happiness and prosperity to my 5 thoughters, to my son, to my 4 sons in law, to my 1 thoughter in law, to my 6 grandsons, to my 4 grand thoughthers, and I remain your affectionate father, father in law and grand father. The year 1904 is gone by forever, and here we are now in the year 1905 and let us hope that health & prosperity will maintain itself in the right groove for all of us in the passage of the new years, and for any future years to come. In any way all this did not discoraged me to make all attempt for to make a fortune and then go home within 3 years, but the quantity of gold obtained by the gold miners in round about, it gave me a very poor hope of the predicted or intended fortune.

The second letter (see "related stories") is one Pozzi mailed home from Melbourne after nearly four months at sea. The second letter (see "related stories") is one Pozzi mailed home from Melbourne after nearly four months at sea. When I left the college I followed agriculture occupation and attending cows and nanny-goats upon the Alps, making cheese and butter, for the family or home consumtion. After the 3 years apprentice, I went to work at Monsieur Jaccard, a European reputed Orthopedist in Losanna, there I was ingage making appareils or instruments for to cure deformities of young persons especially of children, such as club feet, bendered legs, deviation of the spine and arms etc… On the passage we have formed a singing crowd, of about 40 of us, and we did sing I can tell you all the way, all young and happy full of hope of making a fortune in Australia, Billiards Club Business Model and then go back home again. Australia and to stay 3 years only, that is to make a fortune in gold mining and then go back home again.

On the 19th of May 1855 I left home for Australia, paid £ 22 for the passage right through, I was then 25 years of age, arrived in Hamburg on the 24th and sailed from there with 200 other Swiss for the same destination on the 25 May, arrived in Melbourne on the 10 of September, being on the see 110 from Hamburg to Melbourne. Being not able to defend myself of my rights, I was deprived of my mother’s milk, and send me to a putative mother of subsistence, whereas the strong and helthy Alexander had the whole privilege of the mother’s supply. This content was published on Jan 7, 2009 Reprinted here is the 1855 letter he wrote his mother just before he boarded a ship in Hamburg for what would prove to be a one-way journey. This content was published on Jan 7, 2009 Despite the appalling conditions on board the ship, Agen Heinrich, Pozzi survives the long journey from Hamburg to Melbourne following the route around the Cape of Good Hope. This content was published on Jan 7, 2009 Despite the appalling conditions on board the ship, Agen Heinrich, Pozzi survives the long journey from Hamburg to Melbourne following the route around the Cape of Good Hope.