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| The New Forest—Sampson Stanley the gipsy—Mat and Tim—A New Forest sportsman—Braken Lodge | 1 |
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| Squire Bell—Annie’s gift of a book—Shooting a New Forest deer—Felony—Chased by a keeper—Capture—Escape—Fight with a bloodhound | 11 |
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| Mat bids farewell to the Forest—The Young Austral—Tim and Jumper on board | 26 |
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| Life on board the Young Austral—The wreck—A swim for life—Safe ashore | 35 |
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| The island—The gigantic cockle-shell—Amongst the blacks—The Corroboree | 48 |
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| Wild honey—They find the wreck—The Thunderstick | 65 |
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| Spearing geese—Killing ducks with boomerangs—Possum-hunting—How to make fire—The tribe shift camp—The Boorah—Mat and Tim’s journal | 82 |
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| Gold—Hostile natives—Flight by night—The great battle—Clubs—Fists—New Forest wrestling—“Old Joe” | 99 |
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| After the battle—Burial rites—The Waigonda wish to make chiefs of the white men—Our “twins” leave with Dromoora and Terebare for the south | 118 |
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| Burns’ station—The horse-breaker—Colonial “Blow”—Satan the First—Mat “collars” the buckjumper | 137 |
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| An official summons—Travelling in state—Brisbane—On board ship again—Triumphal entry into Sydney—In a church again—The lecture—Meeting old friends—Soft reflections | 147 |
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| Tim starts for the Darling Downs—French as spoken by Mrs. Bell—Parson Tabor—Leichardt’s grave—The French “professor”—Mat unmasks the “professor” | 165 |
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| Tim’s unpleasant reception at Bulinda—The bushranger’s camp—The robbery—Annie kidnapped—Tim’s good Samaritans | 188 |
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| Mat on the trail of the bushranger—Annie’s signal—Mat tracks the bushranger to his lair—The cave—Our hero as the black warrior once more—A fearful fight—Dromoora’s timely cry—Annie’s rescue—Blissful moments | 202 |
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| Magan’s armour—Safe at Bulinda Creek again—The professor’s last lesson on the island—Mat and Tim once more together—Tim convalescent | 221 |
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| The Squire’s offer—Tim decides to go home—Our heroine’s advice to Mat—Our forester takes to gardening—The “new chum’s” difficulties and troubles | 231 |
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| English Society v. Colonial—Music—The “new chum’s” letter—“Two’s company and three’s none”—Unpleasant reflections—Parson Tabor’s advice—Mrs. Bell shows that she has a “down” on our hero—The “Spider”—The “new chum” proves that he is “not such a fool as he looks”—Tim returns home | 249 |
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| Our hero visits the old Waigonda country once more—The overlanding—The Golden Gully—The last sight of Dromoora | 274 |
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| Bulinda Creek once more—Mat again asks Tabor’s advice—The parson “on matrimony”—Annie’s little arbour | 294 |
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| Back in the old Forest—Jumper’s last home—Return of our hero and heroine for good and all to Bulinda Creek—Conclusion and farewell | 306 |
