PERILS OF PIONEERING. 



|f HAVE often in my boyhood listened to tales of 

 adventure and hardship endured by the early 

 pioneers of Canada, where frost and snow played a 

 prominent part among the difficulties which our 

 worthy fathers had to face. 



I doubt, however, whether anything in the history 

 of travel or adventure could surpass the following 

 narrative, which I received from the lips of our much- 

 loved friends, whose names are given below. 



I never listened to anything more thrilling. 



If Canada, with her severe winters, has her way 

 of trying the early settler, Australia also has hers. 



Tn North Queensland, where great suffering must 

 sometimes be endured from drought and heat, there 

 are now and then in the winter season rains that 

 remind one of the days of Noah and his Ark. 



Perhaps in no other country on this globe are there 

 anywhere such rains as Queensland sometimes knows. 



The reader will be interested in hearing what 

 Messrs. Barber have to say about them in their de- 

 scriptions of a journey of one hundred and seventy 



