Australia -- Description and travel
In January, about nine years ago, I climbed on board the Messageries Maritimes steamer _Irouaddy_, for the purpose of getting to a cattle-station in Queensland. Like many others of the same line, the _Irouaddy_ is a grand boat, clean, well ventilated, very fast, and steady in...
In January, about nine years ago, I climbed on board the Messageries Maritimes steamer _Irouaddy_, for the purpose of getting to a cattle-station in Queensland. Like many others...
2. CHAPTER II.Among the passengers on board, there were several newly-married couples, and their behaviour was sometimes rather interesting. Of all places to spend a honeymoon, I can conceive...
3. CHAPTER III.No one was sorry when, about sixteen days after leaving Singapore, the coast of Australia hove in sight. We passed through Torres Straits, which were adorned with the remains of...
4. CHAPTER IV.Next morning, my brother and I saddled up early, and started off through the Bush for Mount Spencer, directly after breakfast. There is something very bewildering about one’s fi...
5. CHAPTER V.Mount Spencer country consisted of three runs adjoining each other, known respectively as Mount Spencer, Haslewood, and Blue Mountain. The whole area was nearly 400 square miles...
6. CHAPTER VI.The cattle belonging to each camp are brought in separately, drafted and turned out again to make room for the next lot, as the yards will only hold about a thousand head comfor...
7. CHAPTER VII.Emus are still plentiful in the downs country, and occasionally we used to come across a straggler that had wandered on to the timbered country of our run. Quite a young one app...
8. CHAPTER VIII.On the whole, Australia is one of the worst countries for sport that can be imagined. There is no big game of any kind, except kangaroos; and after the novelty of a kangaroo hun...
9. CHAPTER IX.The whole of the coast country of Queensland is unsuited for sheep, chiefly owing to the prevalence of grass-seed, but it fattens cattle admirably, and it is along the coast-ran...
10. CHAPTER X.If you ask what sort of a race the Blacks of Australia are, nine people out of ten will immediately answer your question with that prompt assurance which no one ever ventures to...
11. CHAPTER XI.Although the cultivation of wheat is developing very rapidly, sugar-growing is at present the only agricultural industry of any importance that Queensland possesses. Her climate...
12. CHAPTER XII.One day I heard that gold had been found in a creek on the western fall of the coast range, about forty miles from here, and that a “rush” had already set in, so I determined to...
13. CHAPTER XIII.When I first came to the diggings, I pitched my camp on the bank of the creek about two miles below the reefs. It never was much of a camp at the best of times. A piece of calic...
14. CHAPTER XIV.One day a man known as Ironstone George died at one of the public-houses on the field, entirely from the effects of drink. It is really infamous that no one has any power to int...
15. CHAPTER XV.Meanwhile the work of putting up the mill got on very slowly. The A.S.N. Co.,[1] whose idea of handling machinery is to raise it to as great a height as possible, and then sudde...
16. CHAPTER XVI.We had 98 tons of quartz to go through from the “Erratic Star,” and 185 tons from the “Wanderer”; and there was great excitement all over the field to know the result of the fir...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Queensland dates her existence from the year 1859, when she was separated from New South Wales, and she is, therefore, the youngest of the Australian group of colonies. But her...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, lies about twenty-five miles from the coast, on the river of the same name. The town is rather prettily situated on some high ridges sloping...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Where Sydney Harbour got its reputation for beauty I am quite at a loss to imagine. I never saw anything more forlornly ugly in the way of scenery. Undoubtedly it is one of the...
20. CHAPTER XX.Melbourne is one of the cleanest, best laid-out, and most pleasantly-situated towns in the world. It lies on a succession of gently undulating rises, about three miles from the...
21. CHAPTER XXI.To know what real hospitality means, a man must needs go to Australia. Let him journey through the length of the land, in the solitude of the back country or in the busiest of t...
22. CHAPTER XXII.It is impossible for anyone to visit Australia without speculating upon the future that awaits a country possessing such enormous natural wealth and resources. The rapid develop...
23. Part I.--The East Indies, and Interjacent Ports of Africa and SouthAmerica. Revised, Extended, and Illustrated with Charts of Winds, Currents, Passages, Variation, and Tides. By Commander Alfred Dundas Taylor, F.R.G.S., Superintendent of Marine...
24. Part II.--The China Sea, with the Ports of Java, Australia, and=Pocket Logarithms= and Other Tables for Ordinary Calculations of Quantity, Cost, Interest, Annuities, Assurance, and Angular Functions, obtaining Results correct in the Fourth...
25. Part I.--A Concise Grammar of the Language, with Exercises on its26. Part II.--A Vocabulary of Useful Words, English, and Persian,=The Sikandar Nama, e Bara=, or, Book of Alexander the Great. Written, A.D. 1200, by Abu Muhammad Bin Yusuf Bin Mu’ayyid-i-Nizámu-d-Dín. Translated for the first time out of the...
27. Part III. Dictionaries: I. Tamil-English--II. English-Tamil.CIVIL.--Gradation Lists of Civil Service, Bengal, Madras and Bombay. Civil Annuitants. Legislative Council, Ecclesiastical Establishments, Educational, Public Works, Judicial, M...