Chapter I: Front Matter

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_AN ACCOUNT OF
EIGHT YEARS’ WORK,
WANDERING, AND AMUSEMENT,
IN QUEENSLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES,
AND VICTORIA_

BY

THE HON. HAROLD FINCH-HATTON

SECOND EDITION

LONDON

W. H. ALLEN & CO.

13 WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL, S.W.

1886

(_All rights reserved_)

_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE VOYAGE 1

II. THE VOYAGE (_continued_) 12

III. SOMERSET 21

IV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE BUSH 35

V. LIFE IN THE BUSH 54

VI. LIFE ON THE STATION 69

VII. PLAGUES AND PLEASURES OF THE BUSH 80

VIII. WILD CATTLE 95

IX. COMPARISON OF CATTLE AND SHEEP STATIONS 107

X. THE BLACKS 123

XI. SUGAR 138

XII. GOLD-MINING 154

XIII. GOLD-DIGGING 174

XIV. DRINK 197

XV. GOLD-DIGGING 208

XVI. GOLD-DIGGING 224

XVII. QUEENSLAND AND HER RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS 242

XVIII. BRISBANE 276

XIX. SYDNEY 291

XX. MELBOURNE 300

XXI. MELBOURNE 315

XXII. IMPERIAL FEDERATION 328

INDEX 341

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH _Frontispiece_

A QUEENSLAND BLACK _To face page_ 22

THE HERMITAGE PADDOCK ” 27

MOUNT SPENCER HEAD STATION ” 46

THE FARM, MOUNT SPENCER ” 54

GROUND-PLAN OF A STOCK-YARD ” 69

THE BRANDING BAIL ” 71

A BUSHMAN’S CAMP ” 77

BLACK FELLOW PREPARING TO GO UP A TREE ” 124

A BLACK “GIN” AT HOME ” 136

GOLD-DIGGING: CRADLING ” 166

BULLOCK TEAM CROSSING A LOG BRIDGE ” 177

DOWN-HILL WITHOUT A BRAKE ” 215

THE END OF A GOLD RUSH ” 238

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, SYDNEY ” 292

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