INDEX. 



Aborigines : appearance, 167 ; life, 

 168 ; fighting, 168 ; Mr. Moore's 

 narrative about, 169 ; customs, 169 ; 

 dress, 170; Mr. Carr's story, 170; 

 Ngooraialum and Bangerang tribes, 

 1 70 ; weapons, 1 73 ; fierceness of 

 Northern blacks, 1 73 ; Corroboree, 

 a, 174; cannibalism, 174; trackers, 

 their usefulness as, 174; Mission 

 stations, 175 ; Lake Tyers station, 

 176 ; Hagenauer, Rev. F. A., letter 

 of, about, 177 



Acacia, 200 



Adelaide : founding, 103 ; Glenelg, 

 103 ; houses, 103, 104 ; streets and 

 parks, 103 ; surroundings, 103 ; 

 churches, 104 ; Victoria Square, 105 ; 

 King William Street, 105 ; Botanical 

 Gardens, 105 



Albany, 138 



Albert, river, 125 



Alligator stories, 113 



Amadeus, lake, 101 



Araucarias, 202 



Argus snipe, 192 



Australia : former errors about, 14, 

 23 ; exports, 14 ; population, 14 

 prosperity, 14 ; colonies, 15 ; capitals 

 15 ; people, 16 ; area, 19 ; mountains 

 20 ; snow, 20 ; river system, 20 

 physical geography, 21 ; climate, 21 

 76, 101, 112, 138; hot winds, 22 

 temperature, 22 ; storms, 22 ; natives 

 23, 167 ; fires, 23, 213 ; rainfall, 24 

 drought, losses by, 25, 76, 94, 208 

 not yet fully explored, 25 ; demo 

 cracy, 29 ; securities, rise in, 30 

 federation movement, 30 ; immigra 

 tion, 30 ; wages, 30 ; prices, 3 1 

 religion, 31 ; service, a rural, 32 

 Sunday observance, 32 ; sects, 34 

 Sunday schools, 34 ; church building, 



34 

 Australia Felix, 40 

 Australian Alps, the, 40 

 Avon, river, 68 



Bairnsdale, 69 



Ballarat: impressions, 59 ; Botanical 



Gardens, 60 ; discovery of gold, 60 ; 



situation, 61 ; the Corner, 61 ; Trol- 



lope on, 62 

 Bar coo, river, 164 

 Barrier Reef, the, 123 

 Barrow Creek, station at, 109 

 Bass, story of, 155 

 Bass's Straits, 144 

 Bathurst, 93 

 Batman, settlement of, in Victoria, 38 



Baudin, M., treachery of, 157 



Baxter, murder of, 158 



Bear, native, 181 



Beechworth, 69 



Belfast, 66 



Ben Lomond, 147 



Bendigo, see Sandhurst. 



Big Scrub, New South Wales, 95 



Birds of Paradise, 186 



Bishopscourt, view from, Melbourne, 43 



Black boy, 202 



Black-fish, 194 



Black Spur, the, 72 



Black Thursday in South Australia, 



213 ; in Victoria, 214 

 Blackheath, 90 

 Blayney, 94 

 Blue gum, 200 

 Blue Mountains, 87 

 Blue wren, 186 

 Boomerang, the, 173 

 Booth, Mr. E. C, on Shepparton, 67 

 Boroina, 202 



Bosisto, Mr. J., on Eucalyptus, 199 

 Botany Bay, discovery of, 76 

 Bottle-tree, 201 

 Bourke Street, Melbourne, 49 

 Bourke, New South Wales, 94 ; a 



winter day at, 94 

 Bo wen, 123 

 Box-tree, 208 

 Bower bird, 188 

 Box-scrub, the, 136 

 Bream, 193 

 Breeza plains, 95 

 Bremer, river, 1 19 

 Bremoroma, 94 



Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, 43 

 Brisbane, population, 119 ; site, 119 ; 



streets, 119; beauty, 120; garden of 



Acclimatisation Society, 120; houses, 



121 

 Broome, Sir F. N., on life in Western 



Australia, 140 

 Brown, Mr. G. A., on sheep breeding, 



205 

 Buffaloes, 113 



Bulmer, Rev. J., at Lake Tyers, 176 

 Bundaberg, 112 

 Bunbury, 135 



Burke, R. O'Hara, expedition of, 161 

 Burketown, 125 

 Burnett, river, 122 

 Bustard, 190 



Cairns, 124 



Caldwell, Mr. W. H., on the platypus, 



185 , 

 Cam, river, 146 



Camels at Beltana, 107 



Canoona rush, the, in Queensland, 129 



Cape Grant, 67, 



Cape Nelson, 67 



Cape Otway ranges, fire at, 214 



Capertee, 91 



Capitals, 15 



Card well, 124 



Carr, Mr. E. M., on the natives, 170 



Carriers, 210 



Castle hill, 87 



Casuarina Striata, 200 



Cats, native, 182 



Cattle-raising, 204 



Cattle, number of, in Australia, 14 



Central Trunk Railway, Queensland, 



122 

 Charters Towers, 123 

 Churches, the, state of, 31 

 Clarence, river, 96 

 Clermont, 123 



Climate, 21, 76, 101, 112, 138 

 Coaching, Trollope on, 70 

 Cobb, who he was, 70 

 Cockatoo, 186 

 Cohan, 94 

 Colac lake, 65 



Collins lands at Sorrento, 38 

 Collins Street, Melbourne, 49 

 Concherry, river, 162 

 Cook, Captain, discovers Botany Bay, 76 

 Cooktown, 124 



Cooper's Creek, native settlement at, 164 

 Corangamite lake ; 64 

 Corra Linn, 145 

 Corroboree, a, 174 

 Cotton growing in Queensland, 129 

 Crosbie, Clara, story of, 219 

 Cunningham's Gap, 1 19 

 Cutting out cattle, 204 

 Cycads, 202 



Dalby, 122 



Darling Downs, 118, 119 



Darling, river, 21, 94 



Dasyurida;, the, 182 



Deloraine, 145 



Democracy, 29 



D'Entrecasteaux Channel, 151 



Depot Glen, Sturt at, 23 



Derwent, river, 150 



Devil, Tasmanian, 182 



Dibbs, Mr., on losses by drought, 25 



Dingo, 183 



Dog, wild, 183 



Don, river, 146 



Dow, Mr. T. K., on farming, 211 



Drought, losses by, 25, 76, 94, 208 



Dubbo, 94 



