Adventures in Australia in 1852 and 1853

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By Henry Berkeley Jones

Published 1853
R. Bentley

311 pages

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Jan 18, 2006

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CHAPTER	1
soames, emigrants, faal
CHAPTER II	16
gregis, emigrants, gravesend
CHAPTER III	28
dolphin, corked, madeira
CHAPTER V	50
moreton, porpoises, mullet
CHAPTER VI	61
moreton, brisbane, soames
CHAPTER VII	75
convicts, squatters, pentonville

CHAPTER IX	114
signor, ipswich, darkies
CHAPTER X	130
lambing, mortuus, fortunatus
CHAPTER XI	138
bucker, cockatoos, gladiatorial
CHAPTER XII	154

CHAPTER XIII	167
leichardt, drays, bucker
CHAPTER XIV	186

CHAPTER XV	203
sydney, macquarie, excellency
CHAPTER XVI	221

CONTENTS	39
waddy, leichardt, dray
CHAPTER XVII	236
topsail, pleiades, reefed
CHAPTER XVIII	259

CHAPTER XIX	270
braidwood, publicans, callings
CHAPTER XX	279
turon, hargreaves, nugget
The investigation at Melbourne Lead sold	290
turon, ovens, ophthalmia

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Ipswich - Page 122
We determined to return from thence to Brisbane by the steamer, and crossed over to the other side of the river, to trudge to Ipswich, for, ...
more pages: 114 133 183

Plymouth - Page 52
We anchored off Moreton Island on Sunday morning, the 4th of July, having sailed from Plymouth on the 5th of March, making.
more pages: 11 14 17

Edmonton - Page 285
A young gentleman, the son of a merchant from Edmonton, came out with three friends with the sole object of going to the diggings; ...
more pages: xii

Birmingham - Page 152
Not greater than going to Birmingham or Exeter by an express train. Take the map of the world and place it before you. London to Australia 14000 miles ...
more pages: 288

London - Page 96
his London tradesman, while the former buys at the petty shop of the village an inferior article at a high price, passing through the ...
more pages: 173 189 202 215 217 233 254 284

Glasgow - Page 19
A tailor, by trade, had represented himself as a single man, and had left a wife and large family at Glasgow, doubtless now receiving aid from the ...
more pages: 283

Harrow - Page 156
and who could not be accused of being a trifler, inscribed his name at Harrow on the desk, which may be seen to this day, and we believe Byron's also. ...

Exeter - Page 152
Not greater than going to Birmingham or Exeter by an express train. Take the map of the world and place it before you. London to Australia 14000 miles ...

Oxford - Page 143
county influences and borough interests, whether my Lord Doodle is in or out, or whether Squire Poodle's son, who is at Oxford, will turn out the Hon. ...
more pages: 165 204

Derby - Page 230
But do not measure the dust which sometimes envelopes Sydney by the very worst Derby day that ever was seen. The sand-hills and Wooloomooloo were, ...

Wakefield - Page 184
Wakefield, and has proved, as some others he has attempted to carry into practice, a failure. In lieu of consolidating cobnizalion, ...

Gibraltar - Page 70
The bread she made might have been used to bombard Gibraltar, for harder could not have been compounded for cannon-balls. ...

Rome - Page 132
Townsend and the pope did, when the former was on his Quixotish errand at Rome to unite the Eastern and Western Churches. ...

New York - Page 220
Trade and commerce are the only available pursuits in Australia: it is not yet sufficiently matured or populated (like New York) to sustain men of ...

Aylesbury - Page 100
Suddenly we dropt on a shepherd with his flock—as suddenly and as mysteriously as the “man in the moon” did into Aylesbury, when Calvert was ...

Cologne - Page 130
WE left Cologne for the bush, respectively mounted on Admiral, Abelard, and Polka, with a young “tiger” carrying our saddle ...

Paris - Page 49
To leave elegant and gay Paris, to make, not a fortune, but barely a subsistence,—arnid icebergs and storms! But what will a man not do for a ...
more pages: 147

Tipperary - Page 133
“Was it,” we asked, “a real fight, as you would have seen in ould Ireland, in the true Tipperary style?” “Sure, your honour,” he replied, “it was, ...

Brisbane - Page 118
ship and at Brisbane. The latter place he had been discharged from for tampering with some dying patient, and obtaining from him on his death what ...
more pages: 51 107 108 115 122 124 131 168 172 183

Sydney - Page 184
One reason why the inhabitants of Moreton Bay wish to be separated from Sydney is, the delay and inconvenience arising to them.
more pages: 63 168 197 230 231 232 233 260 264 285

Adelaide - Page 227
The effect is much worse at Adelaide, as they last there for ten and fourteen days at a time; the furniture, as the writer was informed by his sister, ...
more pages: 36 217 259 280 287

Melbourne - Page 301
took into Melbourne before any intimation of the circumstances under which it had been obtained could be made known to the authorities. ...
more pages: xi 191 201 219 228 234 273 288 290 299

Bendigo - Page 280
ger has a nugget which this miner struck out of Bendigo, weighing eighteen ounces and a-half, in which may be seen distinctly the mark of the pick, ...

Wellington - Page 210
pretty carriages, Here and there you may notice a squatter, or as they are called by the Sydneyites, a “Jacky Rue,” who has ridden from Wellington or ...
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