CHAPTER YI. 



CONTENTS. 



DEPARTURE FROM THE SAMOAN GROUP — WALLIS ISLAND — DISPOSITION MADE OF 

 TUVAI— CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES AT WALLIS ISLAND — HOORN ISLAND— MATTHEWS' 

 ROCK — REMARKABLE THUNDER-STORM— BALL'S PYRAMID— PORT JACKSON ENTERED — 

 ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY — VISIT TO THE GOVERNOR — FORT MACQUARIE — FATE OF MR. 

 WILLIAMS— DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF SYDNEY— ITS STREETS— ITS RESEMBLANCE 

 TO AMERICAN TOWNS— RELIGIOUS SECTS— PREVALENCE OF INTOXICATION — GOVERN- 

 MENT-HOUSE— DRIVE TO SOUTH HEAD — PUBLIC GROUNDS — MR. CUNNINGHAM THE 

 BOTANIST— HIS MELANCHOLY FATE— COUNTRY AROUND SYDNEY — THE NATURALISTS 

 LEFT IN NEW SOUTH WALES— GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THAT COLONY— ITS FORESTS 

 — ITS GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE — COUNTRY SOUTHWEST OF SYDNEY — LIVERPOOL 

 MOUNTAINS — COUNTRY NORTH OF THE LIVERPOOL MOUNTAINS — ILLAWARRA — 

 DROUGHTS AND FLOODS — REMARKS OF MAJOR MITCHELL— RIVERS OF NEW SOUTH 

 WALES— ITS MINERAL PRODUCTS— ITS WATER— THE HEIGHT OF ITS MOUNTAINS— ITS 

 CLIMATE — ITS TEMPERATURE— PREVAILING WINDS— ITS VEGETATION — MONOTONY OF 

 ITS SCENERY— ITS HORTICULTURE— NATIVES OF AUSTRALIA— THEIR NUMBERS— THEIR 

 PHYSICAL TRAITS— THEIR CHARACTER— THEIR WANDERING HABITS— THEIR TIMIDITY— 

 THEIR CONFLICTS-THEIR CORROBORY DANCES— ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THEIR BATTLES 

 —THEIR MODE OF SETTLING PRIVATE QUARRELS— THEIR WEAPONS— THEIR MODE OF 

 CLIMBING— THEIR CANOES— THEIR SOCIAL SYSTEM— THEIR CUSTOM OF MAKING YOUNG 

 MEN— THEIR MARRIAGES— BURIAL OF THEIR DEAD— THEIR RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. 



