Category: Travel Writing
THE CRUISE OF THE _CACHALOT_ IDYLLS OF THE SEA THE LOG OF A SEA WAIF THE MEN OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE WITH CHRIST AT SEA A SACK OF SHAKINGS A WHALEMAN'S WIFE DEEP SEA PLUNDERINGS THE APOSTLES OF THE SOUTH-EAST SEA WRACK SEA PURITANS A SON OF THE SEA CREATURES OF THE SEA BACK TO...
THE CRUISE OF THE _CACHALOT_ IDYLLS OF THE SEA THE LOG OF A SEA WAIF THE MEN OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE WITH CHRIST AT SEA A SACK OF SHAKINGS A WHALEMAN'S WIFE DEEP SEA PLUNDERINGS...
2. Part 2My stay in Perth on this occasion being limited to about two and a half hours, I could not waste time, so made haste to present my credentials to the Premier, Mr. Rason, and a l...
3. Part 3The beauty of Adelaide is proverbial, but, curiously enough, it can only be realised from the landward side. The visitor who, on his passage hither from overseas, has been duly...
4. Part 4No, the fat days of the individual gold miner have gone and the workers are now paid and employed in much the same way as they would be if the spoil they sought were coal or iro...
5. Part 5Neither in Adelaide or here in Melbourne have I seen any begging except by a couple of blind men, although there are a good many ragged, barefooted urchins running about in the...
6. Part 6A swift pilot steamer ranges alongside, drops a boat as smartly as heart could wish, and (I timed it) in eight minutes from our "slow down" bell we were going full speed for the...
7. Part 7That, however, seems past praying for--as yet, at any rate. Can you imagine anything more unutterably foolish, short-sighted--oh! the dictionary does not contain adjectives to f...
8. Part 8As I mentioned in a previous chapter, your Australasian is essentially a wanderer, and the huge distances involved have no terrors for him. Land travel, except where the railway...
9. Part 9When I was last in Auckland, thirty-five years ago, I used to be much amused and interested in watching the Maories, both men and women, strolling about the streets with a lordl...
10. Part 10Of course in this, as in so many other modern industries, the value of the by-products makes the business profitable, even though the main product be sold so cheaply. There is a...
11. Part 11The business aspect of Wellington, especially as regards its shipping, is so striking as to make it difficult indeed to realise that its population is less than 60,000, or a qua...
12. Part 12Looking down from the great height to which the cable-car has carried us, the panorama spread out before our eyes is full of beauty, and without going back one word on what I ha...
13. Part 13I am debarred at this present time from writing of Invercargill, the southernmost city of all British possessions, for I have not been able to get farther south than Gore, which...
14. Part 14Its public buildings are dignified and stately, the Post Office especially being ten times finer and a much larger building than the Post Office in Auckland, which has nearly te...
15. Part 15The development of these wonderful countries is sure but slow. What it would be but for "sport," even with the present ridiculously inadequate population, I cannot imagine, seei...