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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VIII.
Cooper's Plains. Shepherd. Sheep. Bullock-dray.
Native dog. Quail. Settler. Bucking horse.
Cane, cotton, and coffee. Gold mania towards
Bingera. Duke of York. Yungun. Kangaroo
hunt. Hospital
CHAPTER IX.
Steamer to Ipswich. Limestone. Scenery. Bre-
mer. Wild fowl. Signor Pocofit. Boiling
down. Pigs. Lost in the bush. Surgeon of
"Meridian.' Cologne. Storm. Creeks up.
Killing a bullock. Powder-flask lost and re-
covered. Bush life
CHAPTER X.
The start. A German doctor. "Homo mortuus
semper fortunatus.” The battle at Limestone.
Parky appearance of Australia. Kent Station.
The penalty of riding. Hospitality of a squatter.
His mode of life. Turn postman and doctor.
The flock of sheep. Lambing season.
grave
CHAPTER XI.
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Birds. Cockatoos. Breakfast. In an English
mansion. In the bush. A ride with the squat-
ter. A gallop. A stock-keeper. His whip. A
young middy. The freedom of the bush. Gor-
don Cumming. Hon. G. Murray. An awkward
surprise. The enquiry. A gentleman savage.
The remedy for the blasé. Bachelor squatters.
Married squatters. The voyage. Humboldt.
Isthmus of Darien
CHAPTER XII.
Cunningham's Gap. Main range. The Downs.
Moss in Australia. The wood vines. A halt
on the Blue Mountains. The Admiral. My
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immigrants. The station. The want of a wife
Want of comfort. A station with a wife. An
exquisite. Thackeray. Serpents. Colonial wine.
Marshall's station. Plover. Quail. Snipe.
An Oxford man
CHAPTER XIII.
Eaton vale. Arthur Hodgson. Bush turkey.
The best way to get a shot. Leichardt. A
comfortable station. Corn stalks. The Na-
tional Anthem. An aboriginal belle. A Mexi-
can. A bucker. Our return. Sawyers. A
led horse. A dilemma. A short cut the longest
way. A bullock dray. Carrion crows. Strych-
nia. Frogs. The Rana. Sheep-shearing. Hos-
pitality. Scotch Emigrant. Troublesome ser-
vant. Return to Brisbane. Price of Land.
Separation of Moreton Bay from Sydney. Rea-
sons why desirable
CHAPTER XIV.
Sydney. The Heads. Botany Bay. Port Jack-
son. Circular Quay. First fleeters. Statistics
of first fleeters. Souls. Stock. Extinction of
Sydney tribe. Colonel Collins' account. Dr.
Lang's. Pitt-street and George-street. The
shops. Gold sales. Quantity in shop-windows.
Bill Nash, the emancipist. The assignment
system. His affront upon our Most Gracious
Sovereign. Government-house. His Excel-
lency's country-house. The fatal accident to
Lady Mary. Sympathy expressed by colonists.
His popularity in Sydney. His rumoured re-
moval. The Treasury. The gold escort. Sub-
scription library. The club-house. Café de
Paris. The legislative Assembly. The want of
a House. The forms of the House. The Go-
vernment benches. Qualification and franchise.
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son.
The Opposition. The Speakers. W. Went-
worth. The Colonial Secretary. Stuart Donald-
Bob Nicholls. D'Arville. The Speaker
Solicitor-General. An English M.P. The race-
course on Hyde Park. St. James' Church. The
Roman Catholic Cathedral. Courts of Law
CHAPTER XV.
Sydney University. Bishop of Newcastle. The
good sense of clergy and laity. His own uni-
versity. His correspondence with Sir Charles
Nicholson. The Archdeacon. The probable
result of the two systems. The opening of the
University. Its constitution well adapted to
Australia. The want of architectural beauty.
The Protestant cathedral. Lyons' Terrace. His
antecedents. Wooloomooloo. Sydney Museum.
The domain. The fashionable promenade. The
botanical garden. Its beauties. The shipping.
Flower-shows. The Curator. Governor Mac-
quarie. Trial by jury. Attorney-General finds
True Bill. The Judges of New South Wales.
Lord Shaftesbury and His Excellency. Sydney
not worse than any English garrison or port
town. Tallow fraud. Gold fraud. Not only
paupers and convicts sent out. Also young
prodigals. The folly of sending them out. The
best way to send them out. Letter of introduc-
tion. The Mr. V.'s. The way to get on. .
CHAPTER XVI.
Petty's Hotel. The turquoise ring. The colonial
church. Want of a constitution. Absolute
power of colonial Bishops. Perversions to
Romanism. Bishops of New Zealand and New-
castle. The petition presented on behalf of the
clergy to the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Glad-
stone's Church Bill. Suburbs of Sydney. Burial
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ground. Hot winds and storms. Adelaide.
Central Australia. Range of thermometer. Mel-
bourne. The Brickfielder, or Southerly Burster.
Ladies' bonnets. Menwear veils. The Sand.
Hills bush-rangers. Wooloomooloo. Dr. War-
dell. A vile criminal. Mr. Robert Lowe, M.P.
His kindness. Convicts never received into so-
ciety. Remarks on general society. The appear-
ance of residents. Average duration of life in
New South Wales. The Press. The Market-
place. Sydney Morning Herald. The Empire.
Jackson Creek. Lunatic Asylum. Frequency
of insanity
CHAPTER XVII.
Reflections during night at sea. The polar star
Orion. Pleiades. Worship of heavenly bodies.
Turner's pictures. The Christian feelings. Pro-
fessor Whewell. Conjecture and speculation.
The various systems. Their mighty mutations.
Geology. Rev. H. Moseley's astronomical lec-
tures. Dr. Chalmers. Return from Sydney. A
drunken black steward. Icebergs round the
Horn. Floating or field ice. Accident to car-
penter. Fall from fore-topsail yard. Rio de
Janeiro. The harbour. The health officer. The
custom-house book. The yellow fever. Predis-
posing causes. The market-place or bazaar.
Slavery. Treatment of slaves. Bought or sold
like animals. A bellowing,black. What right
of property in a slave. The appearance of Rio
de Janeiro. Productions of Brazil. Emperor's
residence. Artificial flowers. The Brazilian
Australia metalliferous. Sir C. Fitzroy applies for
a geological surveyor. Steel. Gold. First nug-
get. His Excellency's projected visit to Mel-
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bourne. Rev. C. Clarke. Sir R. Murchison.
The shepherd M'Gregor. The aborigines as
gold-finders. Mr. Hargreaves. Mr. Maclean.
Mr. Wentworth. Mr. Hargreaves' reply. Mr.
Hargreaves' declarations in Sydney. Mr. Stuch-
bury. Coal. Mr. Hargreaves' statement with
regard to the gold discovery. Mr. Hargreaves'
report to Government. The localities in which
he found gold. Mr. Deas Thompson's letter to
Mr. Stuchbury. His reply. Award due to Mr.
Hargreaves
CHAPTER XIX.
The Great Exhibition. H.R.H. Prince Albert.
The increase of gold. Free-trade. Gold-digging
laborious and uncertain. Some fortunate. Kid
gloves and penknives. Persons unfitted for the
diggings. Government clerks. They are of the
better classes who will go to the mines. Count
first the cost. Many start for the gold-fields
without means. Half-pay officers. Their dis-
appointment. Hon. Keith Stuart. His success
at Major's Creek, Braidwood. No aristocracy
at the diggings. Sailor luck. Abuse of it.
Publicans benefited. The large sums squan-
dered by diggers. Knocking down his dust in
Sydney. Demoralizing effect on society. A
digger's wedding. Cabs. Champagne
CHAPTER XX.
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A provident steward. The political economist. A
Somersetshire labourer. An old “ lag's" luck.
A sawyer's wife in silks and satins mal aisé.
Foolish notions of immigrants. Sad plight of
penniless immigrants. Work at 21. and 31.
per diem. A young Scotchman's hardships at
Melbourne. Savings lost at mining. An old
railway navvie; his privations. A gardener's
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