CONTENTS. 



AUSTRALIA AND THE AUSTRALIANS. 



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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIVES 9 



THE AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS 61 



THE AUSTRALIAN BIRDS 75 



THE FLORA OF AUSTRALIA 104 



SIGN'S OF PROGRESS 112 



MELBOURNE COFFEE PALACES . . . 130 



BURKE AND WILLS, THE EXPLORERS 145 



PERILS OF PIONEERING. . . 151 



AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD. 



FIRST LETTER 187 



Celebrating a Local Option Victory in Melbourne -Farewell 

 Address -Lecture at Hamilton Visit Ararat Lecture at 

 Stawell Christinas in Adelaide with the Thermometer at 

 95 = in the shade Address a Christmas Sabbath-school gath- 

 eringOn board the Matifilia Painful Death of a Passenger 

 King George's Sound. 



SECOND LETTER 196 



The Ship's Physician a Canadian Composition of the Ship's 

 Crew Mohammedans preferred because they are Pledged 

 Teetotallers Watches at Sea Monotony of a Landsman's 

 Life at Sea" Man Overboard ! " 



