  CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. West Coast of Africa Adventure in ILLUSTRATIONS. "We Passed a Ship Becalmed in the Doldrums." CHAPTER I. WEST COAST OF AFRICA ADVENTURE IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. CHAPTER II. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE THE SOUTHERN OCEAN AUSTRALIA. CHAPTER III. A LAND OF CONTRADICTIONS TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA. CHAPTER IV. STRANGE ADVENTURES AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS. CHAPTER V. ACROSS AUSTRALIA TALLEST TREES IN THE WORLD. CHAPTER VI. AUSTRALIAN BLACKS THROWING THE BOOMERANG. CHAPTER VII. ADELAIDE TO MELBOURNE THE RABBIT PEST DANGEROUS EXOTICS. CHAPTER VIII. CANNIBAL BLACKS MELBOURNE AND ITS PECULIARITIES. CHAPTER IX. "THE LAUGHING JACKASS" AUSTRALIAN SNAKES AND SNAKE STORIES. CHAPTER X. THE HARBOR OF MELBOURNE CONVICT HULKS AND BUSHRANGERS. CHAPTER XI. GEELONG AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINES FINDING A BIG NUGGET. CHAPTER XII. A SOUTHERLY BURSTER WESTERN VICTORIA. CHAPTER XIII. JOURNEY UP COUNTRY ANECDOTES OF BUSH LIFE. CHAPTER XIV. LOST IN THE BUSH AUSTRALIAN HORSES. CHAPTER XV. EXPERIENCES AT A CATTLE STATION A KANGAROO HUNT. CHAPTER XVI. HUNTING THE EMU AND OTHER BIRDS AN AUSTRALIAN SHEEP RUN. CHAPTER XVII. FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. CHAPTER XVIII. SIGHTS OF SYDNEY BOTANY BAY AND PARAMATTA. CHAPTER XIX. COAL MINES AT NEWCASTLE SUGAR PLANTATION IN QUEENSLAND THE END. Title: The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Author: Thomas Wallace Knox Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 The Land of the Kangaroo.
COPYRIGHT, 1896. By W. A. WILDE & CO. All rights reserved. THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO. PREFACE. The rapidly increasing prominence of the Australian colonies during the past ten or twenty years has led to the preparation of the volume of which this is the preface. Australia has a population numbering close upon five millions and it had prosperous and populous cities, all of them presenting abundant indications of collective and individual wealth. It possesses railways and telegraphs by thousands of miles, and the productions of its farms, mines, and plantations aggregate an enormous amount. It has many millions, of cattle and sheep, and their number is increasing annually at a prodigious rate. Australia is a land of many wonders, and it is to tell the story of these wonders and of the growth and development of the colonies of the antipodes, that this volume has been written. T. W. K. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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