The Kangaroo Hunters; Or, Adventures in the Bush

Departure from Wendon.--Embarkation in the _Amoor_.--Ruth's Adventures in London.--The Deverell Family.--The Pleasures of the Voyage.--Tropical Wonders.--The Flying-fish.--The S...

Afloat on an Unknown Sea.--The Insubordinate Sailor.--The Coral Reefs.--An Island in View.--The Perilous Landing.--Peter's Rebellion.--The First Night on Shore.--Ruth among the...

The Results of the Expedition.--The Long Vacation.--Removed from the Landing-place.--Birds and their Nests.--Fishing.--Tapping a Cask of Potatoes.--Tent-making.--The Shell Spade...

The Foray.--Young Potatoes.--More Intruders.--Ruth's Introduction to the Savages.--The Sailing of the Fleet.--The Desert Shore.--The Giant Ant-hill.--Once more at Sea.--A Storm,...

The Voyage up the River.--The Way to China.--The Note of a Strange Bird.--A Hasty Flight.--A Tropical Storm.--The Loss of the Canoes.--The Cave of the Bats.--A Toilsome Pilgrimage

Alligators.--The Giant's Staircase.--Access to a New Region.--The Pheasant Cuckoo.--Wild Oats.--The Unequal Contest.--The First Kangaroo.--Scenes of Arcadia.--A Hint at Cannibal...

Rambles through the Caves.--Fairy Bower.--A Rough Path to Freedom.--Preparations for Flight.--The Use of the Rifle.--A Case of Conscience.--Departure.--Travelling among the Bogs...

The Tea-Shrub.--Another Canoe.--A Skirmish with the Natives.--Wounded Heroes.--An Attempt at Voyaging.--A Field of Battle.--The Widowed Jin.--Wilkins's Sorrows.--Baldabella in S...

The Tunnel through the Mountains.--The Chase of the Emu.--An Encounter with the Natives.--The Rescue of Baldabella and her Child.--Making a Bridge.--Canoes Again.--The Fishing o...

The Reservoir.--The Rains.--The Native Companion.--The Employments of Prison Life.--The Unlucky Chase.--Jack's Tale of Trouble.--Black Peter's Temptations.--The Release of the E...

The Approach to the Prison.--Baldabella's Stratagem.--The Release of the Captive.--Wilkins's Tale of Trials.--A Well.--The Potato Crop.--The Flying Opossum.--The Salt Plant.--Pr...

Peter's last Stratagem.--Firing the Fortress.--The Watch-tower.--The Welcome Rain.--The Close Siege.--The Conflict.--The Defeat of Peter.--The Fortress Abandoned.--Once more on...

The Dry Wilderness.--Despair.--The Coming-down of the Waters.--The Discomfited Savages.--Hunger and Thirst.--The Footsteps in the Mud.--A Pond.--The Talegalla and its Nest.--The...

The Search for the Lost.--The Fig-tree.--Signals.--The Wanderers Found.--The Wounded Boy.--The Sufferings of the Thirsty.--The Rescue and Return.--The Kangaroo Conflict.--A Stra...

The Eagle's Eyrie.--The Chaotic Solitude disturbed.--The Voluntary Prisoners.--The Report of the Spy.--The Foe at the Gates.--A Traitor in the Camp.--Dispersion of the Invaders....

The Cookery disturbed.--A Signal-rocket.--A Surprise and Capture.--Pillage.--The Taste of Gunpowder.--A Fatal Explosion.--The Contrivances of Necessity.--A Region of Famine.--Re...

A Seasonable Supply.--Visitors in the Night.--Captivity.--An Old Acquaintance.--The Ranger's Settlement.--An Embassy to Daisy Grange.--Jack in a New Office.--The Grateful Native...

The Sentinels in the Trees.--The End of Bill the Convict.--The Bush-rangers deceived.--A strange New Animal.--A Bloody Conflict.--The Mountain-pass.--The Fruit of the Acacia.--T...

Travellers' Wonders.--The Detective Force.--A Trap for the Rangers.--The Skirmish and the Victory.--Daisies in Australia.--The Constancy of Susan Raine.--The Trial and Sentence...

A Chase over the Mountains.--The Frightful End of the Bush-ranger.--Ruth's Opinion.--The Cereopsis.--A Description of the Colony.--The Dingo.--The Cattle at Home.--The Park.--Th...

"I am a selfish creature, O'Brien," said Mr. Mayburn, the rector of Wendon, to his invalid friend. "I cannot forbear from coming once more to annoy you with my lamentations, and...

Departure from Wendon.--Embarkation in the _Amoor_.--Ruth's Adventures in London.--The Deverell Family.--The Pleasures of the Voyage.--Tropical Wonders.--The Flying-fish.--The S...

Weary, distressed, and suffering, the passengers on the _Amoor_ gladly landed on the busy wharf, and were conveyed to Melbourne, where Mr. Mayburn and his daughter, Mrs. Deverel...

Then the harsh voice of Markham was heard pouring out orders, loud, but almost inarticulate with rage and drunkenness; while, regardless of his awful situation, with fearful bla...

Afloat on an Unknown Sea.--The insubordinate Sailor.--The Coral Reefs.--An Island in view.--The Perilous Landing.--Peter's Rebellion.--The First Night on Shore.--Ruth among the...

After walking about a quarter of a mile towards the north, they reached a nook, surrounded by mangrove-trees, which, like the banyan-tree, formed bowers propped by pillars of su...

The Results of the Expedition.--The Long Vacation.--Removed from the Landing-place.--Birds and their Nests.--Fishing.--Tapping a Cask of Potatoes.--Tent-making.--The Shell Spade...

It was necessary to carry the boat fairly out to deep water, to test its perfect security; but the reefs were impassable before the cove, and they were aware they should be comp...

The Foray.--Young Potatoes.--More Intruders.--Ruth's Introduction to the Savages.--The Sailing of the Fleet.--The Desert Shore.--The Giant Ant-hill.--Once more at Sea.--A Storm,...

"The catamaran is lost, master," said Wilkins, as soon as he could speak. "But life afore property any day, and somehow I've had thoughts of late as how I'se hardly fit to die.....

The Voyage up the River.--The Way to China.--The Note of a Strange Bird.--A Hasty Flight.--A Tropical Storm.--The Loss of the Canoes.--The Cave of the Bats.--A Toilsome Pilgrimage.

Alligators.--The Giant's Staircase.--Access to a New Region.--The Pheasant Cuckoo.--Wild Oats.--The Unequal Contest.--The First Kangaroo.--Scenes of Arcadia.--A Hint at Cannibal...

Mr. Mayburn was uneasy till they set out next morning; for the thick bush-covered hill was a convenient spot for concealment. They left their sleeping-place, therefore, at the e...

Rambles through the Caves.--Fairy Bower.--A Rough Path to Freedom.--Preparations for Flight.--The Use of the Rifle.--A Case of Conscience.--Departure.--Travelling among the Bogs...

The Tea-Shrub.--Another Canoe.--A Skirmish with the Natives.--Wounded Heroes.--An Attempt at Voyaging.--A Field of Battle.--The Widowed Jin.--Wilkins's Sorrows.--Baldabella in S...

But it was not till they had left the bloody field many miles behind them that the woman recovered so far from her fear and stupefaction as to be able, by signs and half-underst...

Arthur was soon alert, and followed the boys, who led him up the side of the next high hill and along the ridge for about three hundred yards to the south west, and then pointed...

The Tunnel through the Mountains.--The Chase of the Emu.--An Encounter with the Natives.--The Rescue of Baldabella and her Child.--Making a Bridge.--Canoes Again.--The Fishing o...

They began at last to be weary of the monotonous voyaging, and were glad, one morning, on ascending the banks, to see a change of scenery. The reedy swamps were replaced by rich...

The Reservoir.--The Rains.--The Native Companion.--The Employments of Prison Life.--The Unlucky Chase.--Jack's Tale of Trouble.--Black Peter's Temptations.--The Release of the E...

The Approach to the Prison.--Baldabella's Stratagem.--The Release of the Captive.--Wilkins's Tale of Trials.--A Well.--The Potato Crop.--The Flying Opossum.--The Salt Plant.--Pr...

Peter's last Stratagem.--Firing the Fortress.--The Watch-tower.--The Welcome Rain.--The close Siege.--The Conflict.--The Defeat of Peter.--The Fortress abandoned.--Once more on...

The women had prepared breakfast, and Arthur was becoming impatient, before Jack and the two young boys appeared, dragging after them a large sheet of bark, to which they had at...

The Dry Wilderness.--Despair.--The Coming-down of the Waters.--The Discomfited Savages.--Hunger and Thirst.--The Footsteps in the Mud.--A Pond.--The Talegalla and its Nest.--The...

At the first merry cry of the laughing jackass, which announced the dawn as regularly as the English cock-crow, the workmen rose to labor at their hopeful undertaking; and befor...

The Search for the Lost.--The Fig-tree.--Signals.--The Wanderers found.--The Wounded Boy.--The Sufferings of the Thirsty.--The Rescue and Return.--The Kangaroo Conflict.--A stra...

The Eagle's Eyrie.--The Chaotic Solitude disturbed.--The Voluntary Prisoners.--The Report of the Spy.--The Foe at the Gates.--A Traitor in the Camp.--Dispersion of the Invaders....

The Cookery disturbed.--A Signal-rocket.--A Surprise and Capture.--Pillage.--The Taste of Gunpowder.--A Fatal Explosion.--The Contrivances of Necessity.--A Region of Famine.--Re...

A Seasonable Supply.--Visitors in the Night.--Captivity.--An Old Acquaintance.--The Ranger's Settlement.--An Embassy to Daisy Grange.--Jack in a New Office.--The Grateful Native...

A Proposal of Marriage.--Bill's Rejection and Revenge.--Pocket-picking.--Jack's Return.--Black Peter again.--Bush ranging Merriment.--A Flight in the Dark.--An Emu-chase.--The d...

The Sentinels in the Trees.--The End of Bill the Convict.--The Bush-rangers deceived.--A strange New Animal.--A Bloody Conflict.--The Mountain-pass.--The Fruit of the Acacia.--T...

Travellers' Wonders.--The Detective Force.--A Trap for the Rangers.--The Skirmish and the Victory.--Daisies in Australia.--The Constancy of Susan Raine.--The Trial and Sentence...

A Chase over the Mountains.--The Frightful End of the Bush-ranger.--Ruth's Opinion.--The Cereopsis.--A Description of the Colony.--The Dingo.--The Cattle at Home.--The Park.--Th...

The excitement of the reception was great: such screams of wonder and delight! so many tears at the thoughts of the trials and sufferings of the wanderers and so much laughter a...

good spirit, and maybe she may win her good man to think better of them. But, Mr. Arthur, now you are at your proper work among books, and Master Hugh and Master Gerald, they'll...