Chapter VI: South Australia

CONFIGURATION--THE LAKE COUNTRY--HEAT IN
SUMMER--FRUIT--GLENELG--ADELAIDE--MOUNT LOFTY RANGE--PARKS AND
BUILDINGS--MOSQUITO PLAIN CAVES--CAMELS--THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH
LINK LINE--PEAKE STATION--THE NORTHERN TERRITORY--EARLY
MISFORTUNES--PRESENT PROSPECTS--INSECT
LIFE--ALLIGATORS--BUFFALOES. 97-114

_Illustrations_:

Overland Telegraph Party 98
Government House and General Post Office, Adelaide 99
Waterfall Gully, South Australia 100
A Murray River Boat 101
Adelaide in 1837 102
King William Street, Adelaide 104
An Adelaide Public School 105
Reaping in South Adelaide 106
Camel Scenes 108
Peake Overland Telegraph Station 109
Collingrove Station, South Australia 111
Sheep in the Shade of a Gum-tree 112
The Botanical Gardens, Adelaide 114

CHAPTER VII.

QUEENSLAND.

SIZE AND CONFIGURATION--EARLY SETTLEMENT--BRISBANE ISLAND AND
COAST TOWNS--GLADSTONE--ROMA--GYMPIE--TOOWOOMBA--TOWNSVILLE--
COOKTOWN--SQUATTING--THE CATTLE STATION--THE SHEEP STATION--THE
QUEENSLAND FOREST--THE NETTLE-TREE--SUGAR PLANTING--POLYNESIAN
NATIVES--STOPPAGE OF THE LABOUR TRADE--GOLD MINING--THE
PALMER--SILVER, TIN, AND COPPER. 115-130

_Illustrations_:

Brisbane 116
A Village on Darling Downs 117
Valley of the River Brisbane, Queensland 120
Townsville, North Queensland 124
Sugar Plantation, Queensland 127

CHAPTER VIII.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

EARLY SETTLEMENT--MISTAKEN LAND SYSTEM--CONVICT LABOUR--THE
SYSTEM ABANDONED--POISON PLANTS--PERTH--KING GEORGE'S
SOUND--CLIMATE--PEARLS--PROSPECTS. 131-140

_Illustrations_:

Sheep-Shearing 132
Perth 133
Government House, Perth 137
Albany 139

CHAPTER IX.

TASMANIA.

A HOLIDAY RESORT FOR AUSTRALIANS--LAUNCESTON--THE NORTH AND
SOUTH ESK--MOUNT BISCHOFF--A WILD DISTRICT--THE OLD MAIN
ROAD--HOBART--THE DERWENT--PORT ARTHUR--CONVICTS--FACTS AND
FIGURES. 141-152

_Illustrations_:

View of Mount Wellington, Tasmania 142
Corra Linn, Tasmania 143
On the South Esk, Tasmania 145
Views in Tasmania 147
Launceston 148
Hell Gate, Tasmania 149
On the River Derwent 152

SECTION III.--AUSTRALIAN LIFE AND PRODUCTS.

CHAPTER X.

HEROES OF EXPLORATION.

TRAGIC STORIES--FLINDERS AND BASS--ADVENTURES IN A SMALL
BOAT--DISCOVERIES--DISAPPEARANCE OF BASS--DEATH OF
FLINDERS--EYRE'S JOURNEY--LUDWIG LEICHHARDT--DISAPPEARANCE OF
HIS PARTY--THEORY OF HIS FATE--THE KENNEDY CATASTROPHE--THE
BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION--ACROSS THE CONTINENT--THE DESERTED
DEPOT--SLOW DEATH BY STARVATION--LATER EXPEDITIONS. 153-164

_Illustrations_:

Native Encampment 154
A New Clearing 155
Splitters in the Forest 157
After Stray Cattle 160
Monument to Burke and Wills in Melbourne 163

CHAPTER XI.

A GLANCE AT THE ABORIGINES.

FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE BLACKS--MISUNDERSTANDINGS--NARRATIVE OF
A PIONEER--CLIMBING TREES--THE BLACKS' DEFENCE--DECAY OF THE
RACE--WEAPONS--THE NORTHERN TRIBES--A NORTHERN
ENCAMPMENT--CORROBOREE--BLACK TRACKERS--BURIAL--MISSION
STATIONS. 165-178

_Illustrations_:

A Corroboree 166
A Waddy Fight 167
Civilised Aborigines 169
A Boomerang 173
A Native Encampment in Queensland 174
A Native Tracker 175
Church, Schoolhouse, and Encampment at Lake Tyers 176