With this John Gilpin's ride the present part of my adventures, which are contained in the manuscript I wrote to my father, comes to an end. So does practically what I care to publish. I have seen many ups and downs since then, but from this point in my narrative I could no longer lay claim to be a "missing friend." I am not a novel writer, and I could not continue the history of my life and still preserve my incognito unless I wrote fiction. As my object in publishing these papers is to give a faithful picture of Australian life, I should feel very doubtful of attaining the desired end. To the reader who has kindly followed me so far, I would say that he may believe that Australia is full of young men who, like myself at that time, travel about from place to place, and that similar scenes to those I have described happen every day in all parts of Queensland. If I have been able to rouse the reader's interest and sympathy with myself in these pages, I shall feel proud, and think that after all I did not travel and suffer so many hardships in vain.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

page 3: "Hamburgh" changed to "Hamburg" for consistency.

page 24: "sactimonious" changed to "sanctimonious" (to hear him in a sanctimonious voice).

page 30: "workohuse" changed to "workhouse" (straight out ot the workhouse).

page 39: missing closing bracket ")" added (... engaged as a matron.))

page 61: removed duplicate "not" (They did not laugh at nothing).

page 85: word "I" added which appears to have been misprinted (next forenoon ... I was outside).

page 143: "Kankas" changed to "Kanakas" (expected a hundred Kanakas shortly).

page 216: "dassengers" changed to "passengers" (volunteers, although passengers).

page 221: "draging" changed to "dragging" (horse in dragging oneself).

page 306: "monoply" changed to "monopoly" (break through the monopoly).

page 330: "ou" changed to "out" (A man had then come out).

page 348: "Pal." changed to "Pall" (Pall Mall Gazette).