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  the Forest.--Flying Foxes.--A Startling Snake-story.--Geographical.--Want of Irrigation.--Droughts.--Immense Sheep


id: 56714
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  THESE BOOKS SHOULD FIND A PLACE AMONGST ENGLISH STORIES; THEY BRING A TOUCH OF SOMETHING STRANGE AND YET AKIN TO THEIR READERS HERE


id: 43465
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  Taste of Gunpowder.--A Fatal Explosion.--The Contrivances of Necessity.--A Region of Famine.--Renewed Hopes.--An Unfair Advantage CHAPTER XXIX


id: 43465
type: ORG
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  Taste of Gunpowder.--A Fatal Explosion.--The Contrivances of Necessity.--A Region of Famine.--Renewed Hopes.--An Unfair Advantage


id: 4975
type: ORG
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  THE SAND-RIDGES CHARLES W. STANSMORE NATIVE PREPARING FOR THE EMU DANCE SPEARS TOMAHAWKS BOOMERANGS CLUBS


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id: 29609
title: Six Letters From the Colonies
author: Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)
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  was only 161 miles per day." The last land sighted was the Island of South Wales, with Melbourne for the seat of government. For some time past the people of the small town of trees near Lilydale, about 30 miles north-east of Melbourne, are Melbourne and Adelaide, but at present the land journey takes three almost the whole of South Australia is to the north of Victoria; steamer to Melbourne, and from there in a few days I went to The island of Tasmania is about 200 miles direct South of Victoria. by Steamer to Launceston at the north of the Island, and 40 miles up trade between Australia and New Zealand, and if their steamers to the South of the island of New Zealand, then, calling at the the New Zealand Co.''s steamers called in for coal, and as this Line of New Zealand now run their steamers along the same route,


id: 30607
author: Pridden, W. (William)
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  called, in the colony of New South Wales, the Blue Mountains, which form infant colony of New South Wales, was present during the whole of this landing.--COLLINS'' _Account of Colony of New South Wales_, p. time as the colony in New South Wales was settled. FIRST YEARS OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. good conduct of some convicts, Collins'' Account of New South Wales, things in a country abundant as New South Wales at present is in the Before the first Governor of New South Wales left that country, he had claim of the colony to be called New South Wales, from its resemblance Having now brought down the history of the colony of New South Wales to looking over a map of the colony of New South Wales, it appears strange consecration, there were in the colony of New South Wales nine churches, year, 1838, the colonial government of New South Wales paid 57,740_l._

title:
  Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants


id: 7181
title: The Bushman — Life in a New Country
author: Landor, Edward Wilson
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  In England, a great deal is said every day about colonies In order to wile away the time, we landed on the island, and, passing The gentleman who was then Governor of Western Australia, was Mr. John Hutt, a man of enlightened mind, firm, sagacious, and arrival at an Australian colony, is on the subject of the natives. Whilst in England he was, like the rest of his generous-minded rivers of the colony, contain many miles of rich alluvial soil, passing the ferry-reach, the river appeared about a quarter of a mile position, men of naturally generous temper and good disposition, feel good sheep country on its northern bank, and a river, which we called colony of South Australia is now a populous country, and becomes more country), the news did not reach the colony until May or June colonies of New South Wales and Western Australia; and the time will


id: 25976
title: Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
author: Fox, Frank
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  for a very long time there has been no land connection between Australia sea or lake vanished, and Australia took its present form of a great the Blue Mountains opened up to Australia the great tableland, on which In the Australian Bush most children can milk a cow, ride a horse, or A quite different type of native comes under the rule of the Australian called, is only a few miles from the north coast of Australia, its race The kangaroo is always taken as a type of Australian animal life. that but for the fact that Australia is so large an island, a great The Australian magpie, a black-and-white bird of the crow family, is Going to school in the Bush parts of Australia is sometimes great fun. Australian children get to like school. which has not a touch of the Bush life--Australian children grow to be


id: 11203
author: King, Philip Parker
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  off the South-West end of the island in the north east (which proved to The next day we passed round its South-East end, and, at sunset, anchored land was traced as far as North-West, and appeared to be an island South-West side of the island, at about half a mile from the beach. anchored near the land at about six miles east of Mount Roe. The thermometer now ranged between 80 and 90 degrees, but the heat was by night anchored on the south side of May-day Island, at eight miles We left Gordon Bay the next morning, and passed round its low South-West anchored in a bay on the north-west side of Fitzroy Island, at four miles Encounter with the natives of Vansittart Bay. Leave the coast at Cassini Island for Coepang. Encounter with the natives of Vansittart Bay. Leave the coast at Cassini Island for Coepang.

title:
  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1


id: 12046
author: King, Philip Parker
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  forms the north-west shore of the bay: this island was called after the land-breeze from South-East, steered to the North-West, and passed round forms its north-east end South 53 degrees West, at a mile and a half from the north-west of the Point which bore South 32 1/2 degrees East seven the island bore South 68 degrees West, distant two miles and a half, had degrees 9 minutes, is about two miles long: the south-west point of the is the north-west end of a shoal, extending to the South 41 degrees East o is a small coral reef; it lies a mile and a half North 64 degrees West f is a small reef, about three miles South-West from QUOIN ISLAND, which its north end; it bears South 40 degrees West, three miles from the the north-west extreme of w is three miles and a quarter South 35 degrees

title:
  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2


id: 39322
title: Australian Pictures, Drawn with Pen and Pencil
author: Willoughby, Howard
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  Australia measures from north to south 1700 miles, and from east to west the waters from the higher ranges of New South Wales and Victoria, The colony of Victoria is altogether protectionist, and South Australia the new country in North-western Australia is being talked of in Sydney [Illustration: BIRD''S-EYE VIEW OF MELBOURNE, SHOWING PUBLIC OFFICES AND result is the fine city of to-day, with its broad, tree-lined streets, New South Wales is the mother colony of Australia, and though, after the remember winter days a hundred miles north and south from the Darling South Australia''s next great feat is to run a railway across the south runs to Warwick, another pretty country town of some four thousand the southern, is occupied by the colonies of South Australia, Victoria, lands of the colony, and the great charm of running over many bold hills Great West Railway, New South Wales, 87


id: 5005
author: Leichhardt, Ludwig
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  encamped, came to a large creek, with high rocky banks and a broad stream In the water-hole near our camp, there were numerous small brown leeches, water-course, which led me to a large creek coming from the south-west from the camp, a small water-hole appeared in the bed of the creek. camp, crossed a good-sized creek on its left bank--the river took a We encamped near a fine reedy water-hole, nearly half a mile long, in Fine water-holes were passed at a short half-mile from our camp; Two miles farther we came to a fine large water-hole, water-holes in the bed of a creek, surrounded by high drooping tea trees, sandy creek to a fine salt-water river, as broad as any we had seen. camp, we crossed a small creek with water; and at seven miles further, tea-tree forest, when the country opened, and a broad salt-water river

title:
  Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845


id: 9958
author: Forrest, John Forrest, Baron
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  Steering about North-East for eight miles over grassy country, we reached we steered in about a South-East direction for eight miles, and camped on water, we struck North 204 degrees East magnetic for about twenty miles, near a small patch of feed, without water, about a mile north of our fine pool of rain-water in a brook a mile and a half west of Mount miles from camp, and the horses had been without water or feed since miles, camped on a small patch of feed, with water in some granite rocks, party, and at two miles came to a water-hole they had emptied and given horses, and at twenty-four miles camped on a grassy spot, without water drop of water for 135 miles, by travelling day and night we reached the brook for about five miles North-East, we camped at a small water-hole in rock water-hole about one mile North-East of camp.

title:
  Explorations in Australia 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.


id: 34037
author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
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  A Melbourne Half-Holiday.--Inconsistency of Laborers.--ViceRoyal Residence.--Special Gold-Fields of Victoria.--Ballarat. reaching the far-away countries of Australia and New Zealand by going this island and the coast of New Zealand, in the far South Pacific. small native boats full of naked islanders, men and women, ready to sell not grow long enough to reach the earth and produce new stock like the The principal streets run north and south, and are half a mile long, and large towns of Australia and New Zealand. laborers both in town and country, are composed largely of South Sea in the olden times strangers came from the great South Sea in ships to Australia.--New Gold-Fields.--Agricultural Interests.--City were told of one large section of South Australia ten thousand miles landed in New Zealand, and the numerous native population that then Capital of New Zealand.--About the Native Race.--A City of Capital of New Zealand.--About the Native Race.--A City of

title:
  Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands


id: 39621
title: The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland
author: Cook, Samuel
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  THE FOSSIL BONE CAVE, THE SPARKLING ROCK, AND THE CRYSTAL of a village and a mountain nine miles north of the caves, and, like the arch are caves running obliquely into the mountain 10, 15, and 20 feet, the roof and small stalagmites on ledges near the floor of the cave, and the floor to the roof of the cave; and seeing that it is about 30 feet At the far end of the cave the floor is covered with little The roof is about 100 feet high, and the sides of the cave are the roof above the Fossil Bone Cave is a rare stalactite about 20 feet The Helena Cave is about 60 yards long, 15 to 20 feet high, and varies Another beautiful feature in the Helena Cave is a formation under a mass the rock floor there was in these caves what looked exactly like a


id: 4054
title: A Lady''s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
author: Clacy, Charles, Mrs.
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  A Lady''s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 Our party, on returning to the ship the day after our arrival, four, returning from the diggings, encamped at a little distance from 3. Digging for Gold is not allowed within Ten feet of any Public Road, "Lose a day''s work standing outside the Commissioner''s tent broiling in Thus commenced the gold diggings of New South Wales. The stores at the diggings are large tents, generally square or oblong, One day during our stay in Melbourne he came to me, and said, laughing: The day after our arrival at the diggings, being Sunday, we passed in party, the house-painter and decorator, who also found gold-digging not Our timely friends were a party of successful diggers returning, from days after our return from the diggings, we breakfasted off a dish of There was too much water, and too little gold;


id: 12115
author: Stokes, John Lort
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  opening out the bay on the north-east end of the island, we passed over a A very low sandy point bore North 67 degrees, East 6 miles. miles South from Point Swan, and 11 North-West from a remarkable headland Cunningham, and anchored in 8 fathoms (low-water) about a mile North-West miles, in an East by South direction from Valentine Island; the soundings to an anchorage, in 5 fathoms (low-water) 2 1/2 miles west from Point north-east side of Point Torment was a great bay, extending ten miles in reached a cove half a mile north of Tide-Race Point, where we passed the two miles south from Red Island: passing the latter on our way to Port King Island, extending in a north and south direction, thirty-five miles, north point of a sandy bay on the South-East side of the island.* half fathoms, North Wallis Island bearing South-West five miles.

title:
  Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley''s Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea.


id: 12146
author: Stokes, John Lort
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  Sea Range, Victoria River, North-west Coast, latitude 15 degrees 20 Cape Bedford, North-east Coast, latitude 15 degrees 10 minutes South. To the South-West, and distant thirteen miles, were two large islands, the distant high land, bearing South 20 degrees East, twelve miles from The river now took a south by west direction, for nearly two miles, a each side; Turtle Point bearing South 45 degrees West 11 miles; then two mile from the south point, and then trending away round in a North-west Point Moore South 49 degrees West one mile, the end of the reef North 60 that a hill, lying nine miles to the south-west of Bezout Island, called North-East we had 68 fathoms three miles West by South of that position, fathoms at low tide; North Wallis Island bearing South 64 degrees East fresh water found was at a native well, half a mile South-East from the

title:
  Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley''s Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea


id: 56714
title: Dick Lester of Kurrajong
author: Bruce, Mary Grant
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  "Some day," Mrs. Lester said, "we''ll come here and hear the bands play." just like Billy to come racing back," Mrs. Lester said, laughing. "Your little girl is old enough to be a companion to you now," Mrs. Lester said, smiling at Merle, who merely scowled. great alarm, Mr. Warner half roused and said, "Eh, Merle?" Dick "Rather!" said Dick, who, like all bush boys, could drink tea a dozen "You know," Mrs. Lester said to Dick--they were talking in her cabin "Well, you can look at it that way if you like, old man," said Bobby''s the afternoon, looking at the gum trees," Mrs. Lester said, laughing. "You can''t leave a boy of Dick''s age to a kid like Bobby," he said. "Good man!" said Mr. Warner, nodding at Dick approvingly. Dick may want, so that she may do it for him," Mrs. Lester said to her


id: 4976
author: Sturt, Charles
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  Running parallel with its course from the southerly bend, or great N.W. angle of the Murray, there is a line of hills, terminating southwards, at POOLE''S RETURN--HIS REPORT--FLOOD''S CREEK--AQUATIC BIRDS--RANGES DIMINISH Observed numerous flights of pigeons going to the N.W. Traced the creek down for two miles, when they arrived at a place where From this point Mr. Poole went to the north, but at 12 miles changed his course to the N.E. for three miles, when he intersected a creek with gum-trees, and shortly channel of the main creek on the other side of the plain on which Mr. Poole had lost it; he returned the following day, with information that water creek, having pools in it of great depth, but so clear that we left the creek, and at four miles on an east by north course arrived at miles reached a low stony range, bounding the creek to the north; having

title:
  Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty''s Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847


id: 38691
title: Down Under with the Prince
author: Cotes, Everard
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  foot, the forty-five thousand miles of his Australasian tour with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. old Assembly House, where the Prince shook hands with a remarkably long Later in the day, the Prince attended a formal state dinner, and evoked Prince from outside the railway fence, men, women and children, hand in presented and the Prince shook hands with a long line of returned Maori The address presented to the Prince by these loyal and attractive people were crowded with people, and the Prince had a very fine reception alike hall, where the Prince shook hands with numbers of returned men and For days before the Prince''s coming special trains, crowded to The Prince went from Sydney two thousand miles by sea to Western received the Prince included the Governor, the State Premier, the Mayor, Leaving Brisbane one day during his visit to that city, the Prince


id: 16349
author: Dunderdale, George
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  station at Port Fairy, went with two men, named Wilson and Gibbs, in man-of-war that had arrived at Port Jackson, three old men who had a small public-house kept by a man named Burke, a little way down tall stranger came near looked at the group, and said: canal, went away whistling "Old Dan Tucker," and left the question of true-born native of New England, a good young man, always seen at came every day, picking and scratching like an old hen, and went away A beggarly looking young man came a few days That night the two men had a long talk about old times. Davy took a long and steady look, and said: "I am blowed if they One of the men on shore said, "Look at that white-fellow." It is not every man that has a friend like Jack; many men At that time I went with a man from Port Albert to

title:
  The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned


id: 58206
author: Murif, Jerome J.
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  Near Yangarrie, cross a gum-lined creek of shallow running water. and very stony creek, through whose bed for a mile or so the track winds To Blood''s Creek Government Bore (38 miles from last camping place), good track over Boggy Flat, and, lastly, 4 miles of small sand-hills. seemed a likely-looking place for water; and on coming back he would be The telegraph station is a mile and a half beyond the Alice township, watering places along the overland track, although the traveller may not of a mile off, on my left-hand side; and in the bushes a little way out The road from the telegraph station to Lawson''s Creek (26 miles) runs From Lawson''s Creek up to Newcastle Waters station (28 miles) and thence About a mile north of Sandy Creek water can be had by going across to Waters) and Palmerston (146 miles still further on) the railway line in

title:
  From Ocean to Ocean: Across a Continent on a Bicycle An Account of a Solitary Ride From Adelaide to Port Darwin


id: 4975
title: Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years'' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia
author: Carnegie, David Wynford
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  The pool of water was now a dry clay-pan; the numerous native wells Numerous old native camps surrounded the water, and many weapons, spears, The next day we crossed more old native tracks and followed them for some for water; for he presently took us to a small granite rock and pointed for water, came to an empty rock-hole amongst some rough hills of black miles from the camp, no water or signs of rain were to be seen. his mates, he said, were sinking for water in a likely spot some half-mile camped, and the available man returned to the rocks to water the horses Given a good hot summer''s day, flies as numerous as the supply of water is little creeks run out into the sand, winding their way for a mile or two camel), having no food or water from daylight until camping-time.


id: 39718
title: The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
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  House Ball.--The Rescue Circle again.--Sitting with Mrs. Harris.--A good test case.--Australian botany.--The land of myrtles.--English cricket team.--Great final meeting in Melbourne. works of man, are flanked by great sky advertisements of various brands one of those great men like Sir Ronald Ross, whom the Indian Medical of these good, kind people was aboard, bearing great bunches of wild the fittings of a man-of-war, and a great impression of cleanliness and the need for good living in a way which meets their spiritual wants, Of my psychic work at Auckland there is little to be said, save that I said, "Above your head I see a man, an artist, long hair, brown eyes, man who has spent great part of his life studying the subject, and As an example of how it works, some years ago a Melbourne man named many cases by large proprietors who work great tracts with few hands, so


id: 5816
title: Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria
author: Wills, William John
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  the Natives.--Discovery of Nardoo as a Substitute for Food.--Mr. Burke and King go in search of Natives for assistance.--Mr. Wills have since collected from King, their only surviving companion, Mr. Burke loved my son as a brother; and William, writing of him, says: days; and from each camp Mr. Wills went down tracing the creek. and at six miles camped at a dry stony creek, having travelled From Camp 57 we traced the creek in a west-north-westerly direction REMAIN AT COOPER''S CREEK UNTIL THE RETURN OF THE EXPLORING PARTY small creek, and at a mile farther, water in two or three places on fact, throws very little light upon the probabilities of Mr. Burke''s future course, after leaving the depot at Cooper''s Creek. Mr. Burke, Mr. Wills, and I, reached the depot at Cooper''s Creek, A few days after Mr. Wills left, some natives came down the creek


id: 3535
title: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
author: Tench, Watkin
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  From this time to the day of our making the land, little occurred worthy I shall close my account of this place by informing strangers, who may The live animals we took on board on the public account from the Cape, The Passage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. We had hardly cleared the land when a south-east wind set in, and, time-keeper, in longitude 11 deg 30 min east, so that our distance from place, Governor Phillip at this time signified his intention of shifting Account of the Country about Botany Bay. We had scarcely bid each other welcome on our arrival, when Lieutenant-Governor, in order to explore the nature of the country, and the Bay. The natives being departed, we set out to observe the country, which, The landing of a part of the marines and convicts took place the next


id: 43465
title: The Kangaroo Hunters; Or, Adventures in the Bush
author: Bowman, Anne, active 19th century
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  "O Arthur," said Margaret, "if it be possible, let us land on an island; "Above high-water mark, remember, Gerald," said Arthur. "Wilkins is right enough, Margaret," said Arthur, "this lovely spot, "But even a black man has a soul, Wilkins," said Arthur. "Depend on''t, Mr. Arthur," said Wilkins, "there''s not a bush or a rock discordant cries arose; and, at last, leaving Jack, Hugh, and Mr. Mayburn in charge of the canoes, Arthur with Gerald and Wilkins stepped "If you look directly south, Arthur," said Hugh, "you will see a black "There''s one comfort, Wilkins," said Arthur; "they do not like to face "We will bark the trees to-night, Mr. Arthur, if you please," said Jack. "I cannot have Arthur leave us for a day," said Mr. Mayburn. "I think, papa, Wilkins is right," said Arthur. "Wilkins might be useful to you here, Master Arthur," said Jack; "but I


