CHAPTER VI. 



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 MACOUARIE-FATE OF MR. 

 WILLIAMS— DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF SYDNEY — ITS STREETS — ITS RESEM- 

 BLANCE TO AMERICAN TOWNS— RELIGIOUS SECTS— PREVALENCE OF INTOXICATION— 

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

 THE BOTANIST— HIS MELANCHOLY FATE-COUNTRY AROUND SYDNEY— THE NATURAL- 

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

 FORESTS-ITS GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE— COUNTRY SOUTHWEST OF SYDNEY— LIVER- 

 POOL 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 OUARRELS— 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. 



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