INCIDENTS OF A COLLECTOR'S RAMBLES 



AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND NEW GUINEA 



CHAPTER I. 



From Boston to San Francisco Professional Sharpers The Emigrant Train 

 Nicknames The Plains A Bad Scare Masquerading as a Soldier Run- 

 ning Down a Freight Train Humboldt River and Lake The Sierra Ne- 

 vada Mountains California Wild Fowl San Francisco The Chinese 

 The Steamer " Zealandia." 



THE desire to see 

 the world is almost 

 as universal as love 

 or hunger. To visit 

 countries strange 

 and new, in search 

 of knowledge and 

 pleasure, adds a zest 

 to existence that 

 the quiet dweller 

 in one locality can 

 know little about. 

 Into one year of travel is often crowded more of expe- 

 rience and adventure than is contained in ten years of 

 ordinary life ; and, as may readily be imagined, when 



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TRAVELLING COMPANIONS. 



