Chapter XXIX: The Concert in Coolgardie. Farewell 298

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE
1. Tree-Climbing _Frontispiece_

2. River Scene, Queensland 24

3. Forest Track, Out Back 40

4. Coco-nut Palm in Full Fruit 52

5. Native Girl, Samoa 64

6. View of Apia from Mulinu 74

7. Planting Coco-nuts 84

8. Preparing Copra 104

9. Native Coast Village near Apia 116

10. Low-Caste Native Girl 126

11. Native Bamboo Bridge 138

12. Rarotongan Scenery 150

13. South Sea Lagoon 166

14. Native Girls making Kava 170

15. Para Rubber-Tree 182

16. Native Pottery 192

17. Loading Bananas 200

18. Coco-nut Palms and Pasture-land 210

19. Native Homestead 220

20. Native Canoes, Fiji 226

21. Homestead Scene, Queensland 236

22. Cabbage-Palm and Bush Land 250

23. Pastoral Scenery, N.S.W. 258

24. Modern Sheep-Shearers 280

_The author is indebted to the Agent-General for Queensland for the
photographs reproduced as plates 1, 2 and 3; to the High
Commissioner for Australia for plates 21, 22, 23 and 24; to the
Director of the Imperial Institute for plates 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19 and 20; and to Messrs W. A. Mansell & Co. for plates
5, 10, 12 and 13._

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I run away to Sea—Outbound for Australia—Appointed Solo Violinist in the
Saloon—I watch Sailors asleep