Category: Travel Writing
IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. Melbourne Gleanings—Dr. Bevan—Night at a Bungalow—Cole’s 66–108 Book-shop—A Day at Sorrento—White Cruelty to the Aborigines—Coffee Palaces—Dr. Strong—The Presbyterian Church in Collins Street—The Late Peter Lalor—Ballarat—Romance of Gold Mining—Sydne...
IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. Melbourne Gleanings—Dr. Bevan—Night at a Bungalow—Cole’s 66–108 Book-shop—A Day at Sorrento—White Cruelty to the Aborigines—Coffee Palaces—Dr. Strong—...
5. CHAPTER V.A LITTLE ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES. Sunny Sydney—Public Buildings—Educational 109–138 Establishments—Sanitary State—Its Climate—Bathurst—The Blue Mountains—Romish Aggression—Botany...
6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Holy Adelaide—Its Situation—Its Public Buildings—Its 147–165 Mining-market—Dr. Arnold—Australian Plagues—Fleas and Mosquitoes and Serpents—Sunday Observance—The...
8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XIII.13. CHAPTER XIV.14. CHAPTER I.I SEND this from the _Orizaba_, one of the finest, if not the finest, of the fine steamers of the Orient Line that keep open the communication between this country and Australia...
15. CHAPTER II.UNDER a vermilion sky, as the sun sinks down into the west, we approach the land of Egypt—a barren land, kindly to neither man nor beast, fruitful only in sand, and hospitable o...
16. CHAPTER III.A SCENE of Oriental loveliness opens on my dazzled eyes this morning. On my right is a fine breakwater, with a lighthouse at the end, which altogether cost £650,000, and the bui...
17. CHAPTER IV.Melbourne Gleanings—Dr. Bevan—Night at a Bungalow—Cole’s Book-shop—A Day at Sorrento—White Cruelty to the Aborigines—Coffee Palaces—Dr. Strong—The Presbyterian Church in Collins...
18. CHAPTER V.IF you feel disposed to have a look at Sydney, respected reader, do not go there when an election is on. Last night, till eleven, the street in which I have found a temporary re...
19. CHAPTER VI.‘IT is too hot for any Englishman to go to Sydney in January and February,’ said a gentleman to me on board the _Orizaba_—but I went. At Sydney everyone said it was too hot to t...
20. CHAPTER VII.WHY Adelaide, from which I now write, can claim to be called ‘the Holy,’ is one of these things no ‘fellah’ can understand. It may be because it is near Paradise, to which, I se...
21. CHAPTER VIII.I DID not see much of station life in Australia. I was to have visited Mr. Angas’s in South Australia, one of the show-places of the colony, but the heat prevented me. However,...
22. CHAPTER IX.THE Chinese in Australia have a grievance. We have opened up China against the wishes of their rulers, and when they take a leaf out of our book, and commence opening up the wor...
23. CHAPTER X.ONCE upon a time, so the story runs, an old gentleman was walking along the streets of London, when he was accosted by a little boy, who asked him for a light for his cigarette....
24. CHAPTER XI.One of the charms of South Australia is the fruit, which, in the shape of grapes, and pears, and peaches, and apples, you see everywhere displayed, and at astonishingly low pric...
25. CHAPTER XII.AS I was seated in the dining-saloon of the _Orizaba_, an Australian, pointing to a particular table, remarked to me that there were three millionaires dining there. I am no com...
26. CHAPTER XIII.STATISTICS are not pleasant reading. They are so easily twisted to serve the writer’s purpose rather than to develop the real truth of the case, but to please certain readers wh...
27. CHAPTER XIV.ONCE more I am afloat. I bid good-bye to a friend who was six months coming out, and lived on salt beef and pork all the while. In this respect we have changed for the better. B...