CONTENTS. 



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 En- 

 campment— Corroboree— Black Trackers— Burial— Mission Stations. pages 165-178 



A Corroborcc . 

 A Waddy Fight . 



Civilised Aborigines 

 A Boomerang 



Illustrations : 



page 166 A Native Encampment in Queensland . . page 174 



167 A Native Tracker . . . . . . 175 



169 Church, Schoolhouse, and Encampment at Lake 



173 Tyers ........ 176 



CHAPTER XII. 



SOME SPECIMENS OF AUSTRALIAN FAUNA AND FLORA. 



Marsupials— The 'Tasmanian Devil '—Dingoes— Kangaroo Hunting— The Lyre-Bird— Bower-Bird— 

 The Giant Kingfisher— Emu Hunting— Snakes— The Shark— Alleged Monotony of Vegetation- 

 Tropical Vegetation of Coast — The Giant Gum — The Rostrata — The Mali.ee Scrui; — Flowers 

 and Shrubs. 



Illustrations : 



Australian Tree-Ferns .... page 180 



Dingoes ........ 181 



The Sareophilus or ' Tasmanian Devil ' . . 182 



Bass River Opossum . . . . . .183 



A Kangaroo Battue . . . . . 184 



The Platypus . . . . . . .186 



The Lyre-Bird 187 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE SQUATTER AND THE SETTLER. 



Present meaning of the word 'Squatter' — Cattle-raising — Capital has Confidence in Squatting 

 now -Origin of Merino Sheep-breeding— Management of a Run— Drought— Box-tree Clearings 

 — Modern Enterprise — Sheep-shearing — 'Sundowners' — Farming Prospects — Cheap Land— Easy 

 Harvesting — Small Capital — Selection Conditions —Bush Fires— Black Thursday— The Otway 

 Disaster— Lost in the Bush Missing Children. pages 203-219 



Driving Cattle 

 A Merino Sheep 

 Ring Barking 



Illustrations : 



page 203 



. 206 



209 



A Squatter's Station . 



A Bush Welcome 

 Before and After the Eire 

 Found ! . 



. 219 



page 213 

 216 



. 218 



Appendix 



Index 



