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Albatross, The

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America (see also United States)

135178

America—Journey across from San Francisco

147

Albany

164

— Schools at

165

Alkali Plains, The

155

American Language

165

AndrÉ, Major

167

Appetising Mottoes and Sentiments

160

Arnold, General

167

Bill of Fare, A Curious

160

Blue Gum, The (illus)

148

Brigham Young’s Dominions

155

Bright, John

151

Boats

165

Bogus Ticket Sellers, Beware of

157

Buildings, Block of, Removed Bodily

161

Bull Frogs

149

Buttes, The

158

CaÑons

152, 157

Cape Horn

152

Catskill Mountains

165

Chicago

160, 161

— Fires in

161

— Streets in, Equal to Best in London

161

— Timber Houses still Numerous

161

— Water Supply for

161

Churches, Opposition

167

CorinnÉ

155

Corn over Ten Feet High

147

— without Manure

147

Country like a Park

147

Cow-Catcher, The

154

Crash, A Tremendous

152

Descent of 8,000 feet

159

Detroit

162

Devil’s Slide, The (illus)

159

Dining Car, A Well-appointed

160

Dollar will Go a Long Way

168

Elevation, Greatest Attained

152

English Gold Refused

157

Eschscholtzias growing wild

147

Eucalyptus, The (illus)

148

Falls River

164

Fields Hundreds of Acres in extent

147

Fires in Chicago

161

Flowers, Immense patches of

147

Free Country

169

Gold-Diggings reworked by Chinese

149

— Track through

148

Gum Tree, The (illus)

148

Hotel, The Grand Pacific, Chicago

162

Hudson River

165, 167

Identification a Difficult Task

161

I guess I’ll take your Gold

157

Indians, Dreadful looking

149

— on the War-Path

152

John Scales, Justice of the Peace (illus)

168

Justice, A Dealer in

168

Lake Ontario

164

Language, American

164

Life on the Road, A New Feature of

161

Lupins growing wild

147

Marigolds, Patches of

147

Military Academy, West Point

167

Mineral Wealth, Untold

148

Money-Lender complains

148

Monument Rock (illus)

158

Mormon Advice

154

— Tabernacle Visited

157

— Wives lack Cordiality

156

Narrow Escape

151

Night Attack on Indians

153

Ogden

156, 157

Omaha

160

Pacific Railroad, A Single Track

151

Pallisades, The, Hudson River (illus)

166

Passport Found Useful

161

Pine Forests

149

Poultry Secured by the Leg

169

Pullman Train, Life on Board

149

Railway Covered with Sheds

152

— on Trestles

157

— Open to Prairie

154

— Ride, a splendid one

177

Red Sandstone Rocks

158

Ride, A Long (Omaha to Chicago)

160

Rip van Winkle

165

River Boats

165

— Hudson

165, 167

Rome

164

Sacramento Valley

147

Saints, Cruel Treatment by the

153

Salt Lake City Beautifully Situated

156

— (illus)

155

Sambo said “No Sah!”

159

Schools, National, at Albany

165

Snow Mountains

149

— Travelling through

157

Soil Twenty Feet Deep

147

Steamers on the Rivers

165

Streets in Chicago Equal to Best in London

161

Sulphur Spring

157

Syracuse

164

Taurus Meets the Train

154

Tennyson Claimed as an American Author

165

Timber Houses still Numerous in Chicago

161

Train, The Last Over

152

— The, Met by Taurus

154

Trapper’s Story, The

153

Turning Point between East and West

152

Utica

164

Water Supply for Chicago

161

West Point, on the Hudson

167

Witches, The

158

American Grievance

128

— Passengers from Honolulu

127

Americans not good Sailors

127

Ascension, Island of (illus)

17

Auckland

115

Avoca (illus)

67

Woolgrowers

67

Australian Colonies (see also Melbourne, Sydney, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales)

101

Agricultural Labour, A Fine Field for

111

Artisans, Skilled

110

Australia, People of, Described

112

— Young

111

Climate Exhausting

110

Ornithorhynchus paradoxus (illus)

112

Drought, A Ten Months’

113

Education Amply Provided for

111

Emigrate, Who should

110

Free Trade

101

Labour Market, State of

101

— Unskilled, A Fine Field for

111

Mining Machinery, Perfection of

107

Platypus, The Duck-billed (illus)

112

Population

120

— Surplus, Great Field for

110

Postal Arrangements

111

Protection

101

Railways

111

Rent of Houses Enormously Dear

110

Schools, First-rate

111

Telegraphs

111

Wages Higher, but Most Things Dearer, than in England

110

Baby Hippopotamus at Play (illus)

21

Ballarat

48

Botanical Gardens

49

Gold Mine

48

— (illus)

49

— Smallness of

49

Gold Raised

49

Lake Wendouree

49

Bananas

127

Bay of Biscay

5

Betting on Board Ship

26

Boat in a Squall off Plymouth

2

Brandy or Whisky?

131

Brummagem Shams, where manufactured

13

Burial at Sea

131

Burying the Dead Horse (illus)

21

Campbell Town

74

Our Waiter at (illus)

79

Canada

162

American Customs Officer’s Equipment

164

Clifton House, Niagara

162

Desecration, Ruthless

163

Green Fields like those at Home

162

Great Western Railway

162

London

162

Niagara, Impressions of

164

Paris

162

Photographers

163

Salary, Must Raise, I Guess

164

Suspension Bridge at Niagara, Crossing

164

Centipedes, A Plague of

127

Chair, Taking the

129

Coral Reefs

116, 118

Day Dropped

119

Day Gained

119

Duel, Rumours of

121

Educated in Four Colleges

130

Egypt

181268

Abaid

197

Abbaseyeh Palace

216

Abbas Pasha

216

Abraham or Isaac, Old Fellow like

191

Aden, a Dreadful Place

239

— Importance of

239

Adenese Women (illus)

240

Agricultural Operations

223

Agriculture À la Adam

188

Alexandria

260

— in Ruins

264

— not Bombarded

265

— the Forts after Bombardment

262

Anglo-Indians

266

Apis Mausoleum, The

203

Arab, A Discerning

232

— An, Hanged

228

— School in Syria

211

Arabi, Appointed Under Secretary of War

256

— at Colombo

238

— Bey

255

— Causes Numerous Arrests

257

— Erects New Earth-works

258

— How he Recruited his Army

258

— Made Pasha

257

— Military Adventurer

258

— Moved in a singular way

239

— Principal Figure in Outbreaks

256

— Visit to

238

Arabi’s Personal Appearance

239

Arabs, Bedouin

183

— How Kept in Order

181

— Picturesque Party of

181

Au Revoir (illus)

225

Backsheesh

185, 190, 195, 197, 198, 207, 210, 218, 224, 228, 241, 243

— not demanded

210

Balah, Lake of

245, 248

Bazaars, In the

190

BedrashÊn

201

Beggars

195

Bellows, not made in Birmingham

191

Bery cheap, sah! (illus)

191

Bethshemish (Heliopolis)

220

Biblical Allusions, How to Understand

185

Biograph, A Graphic

206

Bitter Lakes, The, Identified with Marah

246

— Saltness of

247

Black Guard, A

242

Blacking a Boy’s Bare Feet

186

Blue Jackets, Look at our de-ah

237

Blue Ribbon Army

233

Boat or Dahabieh

215

Boats, How Propelled

181

Bohemiennes

228

Bonaparte, Attempts to Reopen Suez Canal

245

Bond-holders, Foreign

254

Bridal Party, A

192

Brindisi

267

British Canal Shares Profitable

253

— Mission, Schools at

211

BÛlak, A Street in (illus)

219

— Suburb of Cairo

220

Bull, The Sacred

203

Burying-ground

202

Cairo

187, 188, 242

— Sanitary Condition of, Shocking

244

— Trades of

188

— Visit to, by Train

184

Camelcade, A (illus)

208

Camelcades

207

Camels, Strings of

207

Carriages, Ladies’

212

Casinos

228

Cemetery, An Ancient

202

Cetewayo, alias The Carrib

229, 234

— Disguised as a Gentleman (illus)

235, 236

Cheops, Great Pyramid of

197

Children, Naked

208

Christian, I am a

218

Citadel, The

194

City, A great

202

Civ-il, One must be

236

Colombo

238

Colonels, The, Make further Demands

256

Concert, A Pleasant, Looked Forward to

228

Cook and Son

241

— Name of, a Talisman

241

Coptic Guide offered a Commission

190

Coral Necklaces

227

Cotter, Lieutenant

229

Court Martial, Irregular

257

Crocodile

206

— A dead

216

— Lake

248

Crowd, A Motley

181

Custom-house Examination

182

— occupied by English Artillerymen

227, 229

Dahabieh or Nile boat

215

Dancers and Howlers

210

Dervishes, The, Dancing and Howling

209

— The, Supported by Government Endowment

210

Desert, Prayers in the (illus)

209

Devils, Familiar

195

Donkey Boy, An Egyptian (illus)

184

— My Donkey, good sah

184

Donkey Ride

183

— across the Nile

215

Donkeys for Nine

183

— Homeward Bound

216

— Names of

183

— Universal Use of

214

Dragoman (illus)

182

Drive to Heliopolis

216

Dual Control, The

254

Dutch Hotel occupied by Royal Marines

228

Egg-hatching Establishment

194

Eggs, she only steals the Eggs now

212

Egypt, British Occupation of, how Beneficial

244

— by whom Disliked

244

Egyptian Character, Saddest Side of

220

— People, Requirements of

255

Electric Light, The,

231

El Guisr, The Cutting of

248

Embroidery

190

End, The (illus)

268

Englishman perfidious

240

English Representation on Board of Management of Suez Canal not large enough

252

Ethiopia shall yet Stretch Forth her Hand

185

European Buildings, Few

183

Exclusiveness, British

242

Excursion, A delightful

208

Ezbekiyeh Public Gardens

244

Face, A Familiar (illus)

261

Fair-day, A

222

Fakir, A Holy (illus)

220, 222

Fehmi Pasha

239

Fellaheen, The, ground down

259

Fort AÏda

263

— Meks

263, 265

— Gemileh

229

French, A Nation of Retailers

252

— Fleet, The, Withdraws

258

— The, outwitted

240

Fresh-water Canal completed

246

Friday, the Mohammedan Sabbath

209

Gamblers on Board Ship

235

Gentlemen of the Long Robe

227

Gizeh, Pyramids of

195

— Station

201

Goshen, Land of

244

— Land of, preferred

244

Governor, A ’cute

239

Graphic Biograph, A

206

Graveyard at Tel-el-Kebir

243

Greek Money-changer

226

Gun Hill

263

Hassan

182, 184, 241

— Sultan

192

— Disguised as a Pilgrim

192

— How he Recovered his Throne

194

Heliopolis (Bethshemish)

220

— Drive to

216

Hens, Laziness of

194

Hippopotamus

206

Homes, Everlasting

207

Home to Vote

225

Hostelries

207

Hotel Abbat

260

Howlers and Dancers

210

Insects something Maddening

230

Irrigation

223

— Method of, Described

188

IsmailÏa

186, 248

Jewellers

191

— Weighing for

191

Joseph and Mary’s Tree

218

Kantara

247

Khalifs, The Tombs of the (illus)

218

Khedive’s Gardens, The

215

Khedive, The

208, 212

— The, Compelled to submit

255

Koran, The, in Competition with Threepenny Pieces

189

Labour, Forced, a Painful Sight

187

Lady, The Last Unmarried

230

Lake Menzaleh

230, 247

— Timsah

248

Lakes, The Bitter

245, 249

Law of Liquidation

254

LepÈre’s Theory

245

— Proved Incorrect

245

Lesseps, M., Detained at Alexandria

245

— Matures his Theory

246

L’etat, c’est moi

259

Leviathan, Job’s Reference to

207

Lucullus

259

Lily, Painting the

186

Luggage, A Lady’s

184

— How Treated

181

Mameluke Dynasty, The Last of

218

Mamelukes, Massacre of

194

Manufacturing Quarter

191

Mariette exhumes the Serapeum

203

Marines

229

— as Police

230

Mausoleum, The Apis

203

Mecca Pilgrims, Rendezvous of

216

Mediterranean, The

267

— Waters of, Flow into Bitter Lakes

246, 248

Member, Once a, always a Member

234

Memphis

202

— Ancient, Site of

201

— Little more than a Name

202

Menzaleh, Lake of

245

Military Riot

255

Mitrahineh (site of Ancient Memphis)

201

Mohammed Ali, Mosque of

194

Money-Changers’ Liberality

227

Monument, Most Ancient in the World

202

Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Visit to

194

— The, of Sultan Hassan (illus)

193

Mother, Son thrashes her only once a month

212

Mud, Great Difficulty in Making Canal

230

Museum, The National, for Egyptian Antiquities

222

Mutinous Conduct

256

Naval Force sent by France and England

257

— Arrival at Alexandria

257

Nap on Deck

234

Necropolis, Ancient

202

Nile-boat, A

216

Nile, The

187

— Valley of

188

— View on the (illus)

198

Nobleman, The Languishing

184

Noph (Memphis)

202

Nubians Reported to be Excellent Soldiers

229

Obelisk, The Oldest in Egypt

218

Octroi, or Town Tax

216

On (Heliopolis)

220

Orgies, Pious

210

Orient, The Steamship (illus)

186

— a Magnificent Steamship

181

Orphans, Venerable

224

Palmerston, Lord, thwarts Lesseps

246

Palms, Oranges, and Lemons

218

Patriarchal Group, A

197

Pebbles as Mementoes of Tel-el-Kebir

243

Peep, A (illus)

190

Penny, New, Refused

185

People, Vast Numbers with Nothing to do

185

Perim, Island of, how acquired

239

Pious Orgies

210

Police, The, Armed with Long Spikes

216

Port SaÏd

230, 247

— a Dreadful Place to Live in

230

— Harbour

231

— Lighthouse

231

— Railway wanted to

232

Power vested in Military Party

257

Prayers in the Desert (illus)

209

Predictions, Ill-founded

249

President, The, of Red Ribbon Army

235

Pyramid, Ascending the Great (illus)

196

— The great Step

202

— The Oldest

202

Pyramids, Road to

187

— The

216

— The, First View of

187

Quarantine

268

Ramleh

263

Ramses II, Statue of

202

Ras-el-Tin

261

Red Tape

250

— Ribbon Army

233

Rendezvous of Mecca Pilgrims

216

Revoir, Au (illus)

225

Riot and Massacre of Europeans

257

Rotten Row of Cairo, The

212

Runners or SaÏs, The (illus)

212, 212

Sabbath, the Mohammedan

209

Safes, obviously of English Manufacture

191

SaÏs, The

212

Sacred Bull, Burying-place of

203

Sakkara, To

201

Sand, A good Preservative

205

Sarcophagus, A huge

203

School, An Arab, in Syria

211

— Interrupted

189

Schoolmaster’s, A, Disappointment

211

Schoolmaster, The, Abroad (illus)

189

— The, asks for Backsheesh

190

Schools, Miss Whateley’s

211

Sculpture, Life-like

222

Selim, Sultan

218

Serapeum, The (illus)

203, 204

Seymour, Admiral, Opens Fire on Forts

258

Shalouf

248

Shave, A, and a Wash (illus)

199, 199

Ship of the Desert, A Wrecked

223

Shoeblacks

186

Shops Tiny

182

Shubra Avenue, In (illus)

214

— The

212

Simon Stylites

220

Soldier, British, in Egypt

242

Soldiers, English, quite at home

244

— glad to have Newspapers

230

Sphinx, The

216

— The (illus)

199

Spider, The

233, 234, 235

Spider’s Web, The

234

Statue, A, Four Thousand Years old

222

Stick, The Heaven-sent

198

Story-teller, A

222

Storytellers, Professional, at Cairo

188

Strabo, on the Serapeum

203

Street in BÛlak (illus)

219

Streets of Suez Narrow

182

Suez

241, 248

— Arrive off

181

Suez Canal, A new Canal wanted

252

— British Traffic through

247

— Cost of Constructing

247

— Does not silt up

249

— Embankments of

247

— Erroneous Impressions

249

— Festivities on Opening

247

— First Undertaken by Pharaoh Necho

244

— French Officials inferior in capacity

250

— French short-sighted in Business Matters

252

— In the (illus)

226

— Lesseps’ Monopoly

252

— Lesseps, M. de

250

— Mercantile Importance of

247

— Necessity of increased accommodation

250

— Operations begun

246

— Palmerston, Lord, Obstinacy of

250

— Restrictions Absurd

251

— Ships not allowed to move after Sun-down

251

— Sinuosities of

249

— Steamers under perfect control

250

— Suggestion, A

253

— How to deal with Profit

253

— The

244

Suez Hotel

182, 242

— Streets of, Narrow

182

Sultan, Selim

218

Tel-el-Kebir

242, 243

Temple, Underground

201

Tih, The Tomb of

205

Timsah, Lake, Lord Wolseley’s base of operations

248

Tomb of Tih (illus)

205, 206

Tombs of the Khalifs (illus)

218

Torture, A Novel Instrument of

220

Town Tax, The, or the Octroi

216

Treasures, Buried

201

Tree, The Virgin’s

218

Umbrellas, A New Use for

181

Villages, Dreadful Mud

207

Virgin’s Tree, The

218

Wash, A, and a Shave (illus)

199, 201

Wash Basin, An Impromptu

229

Washing Hands, A Primitive Mode of

199

Water-carriers (illus)

215

Weigher for the Trade

192

Whateley’s, Miss, Schools

211

What lack ye?

226

Wild Fowl Shooting, Good

230

Words which Broke no Bones

182

Zagazig

187

Equator, Heat at

24

Faces too Dark to be Seen

122

Falmouth

63

Beach and Sands

71

Burial-place (illus)

70

Cockney Sportsman

71

Der Dichter Spricht

65

Epping Forest

67

Hotel (illus)

69

Land of Snakes

64

Magpies

63

River Esk

64

Stoney Creek

64

Fernshaw

53

Hard Fare

53

Pioneering

53

Fiji Children ask for More

117

— Islands

116

— Native of (illus)

117

Fingal

67

Fire Brigade Practice

119

Flying Fish

27

Free Trade

99

Gambling on Board Ship

26

Golden Gate, The

131

Gum Trees, A Forest of

51

— (illus)

52, 53

Habits of Islanders acquired

128

Healesville

51

A Soafler

51

Hotel Accommodation

51, 56

Remedy, a Sovereign

58

Hobart Town

77

Fern Tree Valley

78

Harvest in February

78

Jericho to Jerusalem, via Bagdad

78

New Norfolk

78

Homeward Bound

127

Honolulu, Arrival at

122

Baby Sold for a Dollar

126

Breakfast ordered Overnight

122

Brownie, Quite a

125

Chairs or Seats usually absent

126

Children described

124

Country very Poor

125

Dragon-flies, numerous

124

Dressmaking not a difficult Art

124

Faces too Dark to be Seen

122

Fire-flies

122

Flowers of the most brilliant colours

124

Grass green and beautiful

124

Hawaiian Islands, King of, Landlord of Hotel

123

Healthiness of

127

Heathen Chinee, his Tricks not in Vain

123

Hotel

122

Houses made chiefly of Rushes

126

Islanders en fÈte

121

Letters, Glad to be Rid of

125

Library

125

Museum

125

Natives Dressed in Splendid Colours

124

Parliament House

125

Passenger Overboard

121

Perfume of Tropical Flowers

122

Pilots Decline to go out for Vessels

121

Race fast dying out

125

Ruth, the King’s Sister (illus)

127

Servants gone Home

122

Squatting on Ground Prevailing Custom

126

Supper not to be had

122

Temperature of

127

Vegetation of

124

Village, Native

126

Villas Pretty and Numerous

126

Waiters Celestial

123

Water, Thoughts when Under

121

Women’s Clothing, Scanty

124

Women Stately Looking

124

Honolulu, Hotel at

122

Horse, Burying the Dead (illus)

21

Hotel Experiences

67

I guess the seat is dry now

129

Irish Bulls, where manufactured

13

Islanders en fÈte

121

Jefferson Brick, Junior

129

Jerra Jerra

96

Kandavu

115

Knife Trick, The

130

Life on Board Ship (see Ship—Life on Board)

339

Lyre Bird, The (illus)

59

Launceston

61

Bees in Mourning

62

Cicadas

61

Cora Linn

63

Pomona’s Temple

62

Snakes

61

Tamar River

61

Tasmanian Hospitality

62

Tonsorial Palace

62

Tree Locusts

61

Marysville

56

Stephenson Falls

56

Meal, a good square one preferred on Shore

121

Melbourne (see also Victoria)

39

Berry Ministry, the

43

Black Death at

40

Black Spur Mountains

50

— (illus)

56

Building Trade at, Depressed, Results

102

Bush, The

50

Description of

41

Education

42

Exhibition at, why decided on

102

Happy Land

46

Hobson’s Bay

39, 80

Hot Winds

47

Natural History Museum

42

Old Debts, a New Way to Pay

45

Overland from Sydney

94, 100

Parliamentary Procedure

43

Parliament, Houses of

45

— Payment of Members of

44

Protection

102

Revisited

79

Roads

50

Sanitary Arrangements, Defective

47

Stage Coaches

50

Streets wide and long

103

Tall and Fat a street sweeper

48

Tramways opposed by Cabmen

103

Vineyards

50

Yarra Yarra River

60

Mister

130

Moighty Dry

130

Native Dish called Poi

128

New South Wales (see also Sydney)

107

Acres Many, Men Few

107

Agricultural Machinery, Imported

108

Artisans Attracted from Victoria

109

Customs Revenue, Increase of

110

Employment Abundant

107

Exports, Increase of

110

Free Trade Colony

107

Hudson Bros, Limited

108

Immigration Larger than in Victoria

109

Imports, Increase of

110

Imports in 1782 and 1881

109

Industry, A Native, Created

108

Labour, Increasing Demand for

109

Machinery, Agricultural and Mining, Imports of

108

— Mining, Demand for

107

Manufacturing Concern, Largest in Colony

108

Men Few, Acres Many

107

Mining Machinery, Imports of

108

— Machinery, Perfection of

107

Policy Opposite to that of Victoria

107

Population Attracted

109

— Constantly Increasing

107

— Increase of, in Ten Years

110

— Room for More

109

Prosperity, Evidences of

107

Railway System, Vast and Expanding

107

Sawmills, Steam, at Sydney

108

Shipping

107

— Development of

109

— During last Thirty Years

109

— Repairing Yards Removed from Victoria

109

Timber, Native Better than Imported

108

Trade, Import and Export

107

Victoria Contrasted with

107

Oatlands

78

The Gaol

79

Pacific Ocean belies its Name

115

Parson, The, Quite at Sea

16

A Man of Peace now

30

Colonists’ complain of

32

Congregation, Secures a

16

Drain Pipes, how they are made

30

Mixes his Degrees

31

Sermon on Geology

16

Water Pumped from a Mine Twelve Miles Deep

16

Passenger, Death of

130

— falls Overboard

121

Personal Difficulties

120

— Favour, As a

131

Pilots Decline to go out for Vessels

121

Protection

39, 100

Salt Water good for the “Spin-ial Orgins”

7

San Francisco

131

Baggage Master

147

Business Activity

138

— Men, Sharp

140

Carriages, Hackney

144

Character, Bad Better than None

139

Chinaman, Am claimed as a

144

Chinese Close Shavers

141

Chinese Pigtails (illus)

142

— Joss Houses Visited

143

— Quarter Full of Interest

141

— Numerous

140

— Quarter Explored at Night

143

— Theatre Visited

143

— Washermen

137

— Wedding

143

Civilisation and Barbarism Face to Face

137

Climate Delightful

145

Correspondent, A Familiar

138

Darwin would have been Delighted

142

Dodge, A Favourite

139

Earning a Cent anyhow

132

English Fittings

137

Entrance to Harbour Sighted

131

Fire Brigades

144

Flats and Sharps

139

Golden Gate, The

131

Governor, Qualifications for a State

140

Habit, The National

138

Hackney Carriages

144

Heat and Dust Terrible

147

I Guess you are Going to England

140

Jarrett, A. J. C.

138

John Chinaman

141

Knife and Fork, only One at Meals

138

Lady Doctors Numerous

140

Luggage, Arrangements for, Excellent

147

Min-ne, Little

141

Mister, Last of (illus)

146

My Wife is Dead

138

Pacific Seal

145

Palace Hotel

135, 137

Police, Messenger from Chief of

139

Sea-lions

145

Seal Rocks (illus)

145

Starching, a Fine Art

137

Streets, Handsome

138

Tang-y, A Chinese City

144

Tang-ye, Proof of Celestial Origin

144

Temperature

145

Tobacco Chewing and its Consequences

138

Tramways

144

Volunteers

144

Yosemite Valley

146

San Francisco, Voyage to

113, 132

Sharks

18, 30

— don’t like Dark Skins

118

Ship-Life on board

3

Albatross

27

Bay of Biscay, Nor’-wester in

6

Bazaar

34

Betting

26, 38

Blatant Beast, The, fires a Revolver

25

Burying the Dead Horse

21

Cabin’d, Cribb’d, Confin’d

3

Cape Otway

38

Captain not so fond of Progress as the Passengers

12

Captains, why they are Tories

13

Cat Chase

26

Collisions at Sea

29

Colonial Statesman beaten but not vanquished

39

Concerts and Recitations

9

Congregation, How to Secure a

16

Consumptive Patients sent too late

5

Cross-signalling

35

Danite Band, The

33

Death and Burial at Sea

15

Dolphins

27

Dolphin, the “Classic” (illus)

28

Dramatic Performance

35

Exhibition, Fine Art

35

Fellow-passengers

4

First Night on Board

3

Flying Fish

27

Gale off Cape Leeuwin

38

Genial Captain (illus) advantageous

11

German Lady, old but lively

19

Hobson’s Bay

39

Illness of Passengers

14

Incident in Cornwall recalled

24

Ixion goes mad

14

Letters Home

29

Life Friendships formed

4

Love your Enemies

17

Melbourne, Arrive at

39

Music not always harmonious

10

Night-walkers a nuisance

9

Nor’-wester in the Bay of Biscay

6

Parson Mixes his Degrees

31

Pilot Fish

28

Passengers paying their Footing

30

— divided into Sets

3

Peal of Hand-bells

16

Portuguese Man-of-War

28

Private Convict System

4

Quoits a selfish Game

9

Rolling Forties

38

Scarlet Lady

20

Sea-sickness, Cure for

6

Sermon on Geology

16

Sharks

18, 30

Ship in full Sail

29

Short and Stout

25

Soup too Salt

19

Sports (illus)

8

Spurgeon’s Evangelist

32

Squall near Madeira

12

Steward’s Life a hard one

7

Tall and Fat

25

Tristan d’Acunha

38

Tropical Heat

8, 24

Tropical Phosphorescence

33

Newspaper

10

Water Pumped from Twelve Miles Deep

16

Wild Spirits carry on

25

Whale

30

Ship’s Doctors

120

Snakes

61, 64, 68, 72, 73, 74, 97

Spurgeon’s Evangelist

32

Steward, A Negro

115

St Mary’s (illus)

68

Supper, Too late for

123

Sunday at the Fiji Islands

116

Sydney (see also New South Wales)

80

Ants

90

Bail-up

89

Bathurst

89

Blue Mountains

84

Botanical Gardens

82

Bullock Team on Blue Mountains (illus)

94

Bush Hut (illus)

95

Bushrangers

89

Cottage, Mount Victoria (illus)

86

Education Act, The, Amended

92

Excise Act

92

Falls, The Weatherboard (illus)

87

Great Goat Sucker, The

90

Harbour (illus)

80

Hartley Vale, Descent to (illus)

88

Harvest on New Year’s Day

95

Hotels, Primitive

84

Laughing Jackass, The (illus)

90

Lithgow

88

Manufacturing Concern, Largest in Colony

107

Oysters

83

— on Trees

84

Political Situation

92

Saw Mills, Steam

108

Sheep Runs

95

Southerly Buster, A

83

Sydney to Melbourne Overland

94, 100

Albury

98

Ants

96

Axles, Imported

108

Bush, The

96

Carriage Furniture, Imported

108

Drought of Ten Months’ duration

113

Endurance of Post-horses

98

Euroa

100

Free Trade at

108

Germanton

96

Hay, Price of

113

Hudson Brothers (Limited)

108

Industry, A Native, Created

108

Jerra Jerra

96

Kelly’s Exploits at Euroa

100

Magpies, Large

96

Railway Rolling Stock Manufacturers

108

Rain, Downpour of

114

River Murray

99

Royal Mail

96

Sheep, Loss of

114

Shipping during last thirty years

109

Sighing for Old England

97

Snakes

97

Springs, Imported

108

Timber, Native Better than Imported

108

Tommy, a youthful Driver

98

Town, An Up-country (illus)

98

Vineyards

99

Wagga Wagga

95, 96

Wheels, Imported

108

Wodonga

99

Sydney to San Francisco

113, 132

Tasmania

75

Farms large in size

75

Good Roads

75

Hawkers

76

Mount Wellington (illus)

76

River Derwent

75

The Rabbit and the Thistle

75

Teneriffe (illus)

7

Travelling by Rail and Ship compared

1

Tree Ferns

52, 56

Tristan d’Acunha, Island of

36

Tropical Heat

8, 24

— Phosphorescence

33

Tropics, In the (illus)

40

Turtles

18

United States

169

Americans would Become our Competitors

176

Artisans (American) not Better Off than British

176

— Wages and Holidays

174

Baggage Arrangements Convenient

171

— Described

171

Books Dear

170

Cabmen Disgusted

171

Cadgers, In England such Men would be Called

176

Calicoes Consigned to England

173

Charges Simply Monstrous

170

Children without Shoes and Stockings

177

Climate more Trying than that of England

174

— of America Exhausting

176

Competition Become Exceedingly Fierce

175

Considerably Sold

178

Corruption among Officials

169

Cotton Mill Operatives from Germany, etc.

175

Dear America

170

Dinner, Charge for a Plain

170

Engine, The Largest, in the World

172

Exhibition, The Centennial, Philadelphia

169, 171

Exports Limited by Protection

175

Factory Operatives’ Wages Lower than in Lancashire

174

Fair Trade Agitation

174

Fortunes, Colossal, Built up under Protection

176

Freedom for Tongue and Foot

177

Free Trade and Wages

174

— not an Unmixed Blessing

176

— under, Wider Distribution of Material Comfort

176

Holidays Fewer than in England

174

Hours of Labour Longer than in England

176

— Longer than in Lancashire

174

Improvements (so-called) in Manufactures

172

Labour, Honest, Avoided

176

Liquor Traffic Presents Many Difficulties

177

Living, Cost of, Higher than in England

174

Loafers Numerous

176

Negro Labour does not Flood the Markets

177

Newspaper Inferior and Dear

170

New York

169

Officials, Corruption among

169

Over-production

173

Philadelphia

171

Protection, An Argument for

173

— and Wages

174

— Doomed

175

— Wages Steadily Declining under

176

Railway Charges Moderate

171

Rich, but Honest

169

Slave Experiences

177

Something Hot

178

Steamboat Charges Moderate

171

Sunday Traffic Perplexing

177

Teetotal Lecture, A Regular

178

Temperance Lecture, The First, they had Heard

178

Tools, Inferior

172

Wages Higher, but Balanced by Extra Cost of Living

176

— Higher, not a Full Equivalent

176

— Lower than in 1860

174

— Steadily Declining under Protection

176

— with Free Trade and Protection

174

Victoria (see also Melbourne)

101

Agricultural Industries not Protected

105

— Heavily Taxed

105

Artisans Attracted to New South Wales

109

Books, Can Produce Her Own

104

Cabby Overrides the Tramway

103

Country Districts Sparsely Populated

101

Customs, Revenue, Stationary

110

Depression of Building Trade at Melbourne

102

Dog Subsisting on His Own Tail

102

Duty on Imports Demanded

103

Exhibition at Melbourne why Decided on

102

Exports, Increase of

110

Fiscal Policy, Vicious

105

Food, Taxation of, not Permitted

105

Free Trade—the Argus

104

— for Raw Materials

103

Government, Quite Right to Cheat the

106

Immigration, Grants in Aid of

105

Imported Manufactures Heavily Taxed

101

Imports, Increase of

110

Laws, Evasion of, by Protectionists

106

Locomotives Costly

104

— Required

104

Manufacturer’s Profit not quite enough

104

Manufacturers Require Larger Field

105

Minerals, Home Demand for, Small

105

— Mainly Exported

105

Mining Industries not Protected

105

— Machinery Heavily Taxed

105

Native Industry, In Interests of

104

Natural Resources Neglected

102

New South Wales, Contrasted with

107

Population Concentrated in Large Towns

101

— Increase of, in Ten Years

110

— (Manufacturing) Growing Faster than its Customers

102

— not Retained

101

— Larger, a Great Want

105

— Room for Larger

105

Prices sufficiently High

104

Printed Books should be more Heavily Taxed

104

Printing Materials, Suggestion to Tax

104

Protected Industries for a Limited Time

103

— Manufacturers not Happy

106

Protection Demanded by Manufacturers

102

— Effect on Money

106

— in its most Pronounced Form

101

Protectionist Newspapers

103

Railway Stores

105

Shipping—Repairing Yards Removed to New South Wales

109

Tramways Opposed by Cabmen

103

Tariff Revision Committee

103

Working Classes Jealous of Competition

105

Work, Legislature Expected to Supply

102

Workpeople very Independent

107

Voyage, Author’s First, to Australia

5

Waterspout

119

Water, Thoughts when Under

121

White Squall, The

35

Yankee Journalist described

129

Yankee’s Inquiry

128

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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