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Introductory--Voyage to Australia--Arrival at Adelaide--Description of the city--Melbourne, the Queen of the South--Working men--The highest trees in the world--Two of the most common mammals in Australia Pages 1-12

Sydney harbour--Jealousy between Sydney and Melbourne--The Blue Mountains--Brisbane and Rockhampton--First evening in tropical Australia--Gracemere station--Animal and plant life--Vine-scrubs--Excursion into the neighbouring districts--A Norseman who feels cold in Australia 13-30

Struggle between blacks and whites--116? Fahrenheit--Cool nights--Troubles--Bush-life--How the bushman spends his money--Inundations--Back again to Gracemere--A greedy snake--Courtship in the bush 53-62

Journey to Northern Queensland--Mackay-sugar--Employment of South Sea Islanders--Townsville--A rough northern man--Sugar district on Lower Herbert--Visit to a successful Scandinavian--Blacks near Gardiner's farm--Nolla-nolla--Spring--Arrival at Herbert Vale 63-75

Headquarters at Herbert Vale--Civilised blacks--Domestic life--Nelly the cook--Cats--Swimming in fat--My bill of fare--Killing the bullock--Strong stomachs and bad fare 76-88

K?min --On the top of the gum-trees--Hunting the wallaby--The spear of the natives--Bird life in the open country--Jungle-hens--Cassowary 89-99

Pleasant companions--Two new mammals--Large scrubs in the Coast Mountains--The lawyer-palm--"Never have a black-fellow behind you"--I decide to live with the blacks--Great expectations--My outfit--Tobacco is money--The baby of the gun 100-111

The position of women among the blacks--The husband the hunter, and the woman the provider of the family--Black female slaves--"Marking" the wives--A twelve-year-old wife--Considerate husbands--Wives an inheritance--Deserted by my followers--Reasoning power of the blacks--Darkness and rain 160-171

Dingo a member of the family--A black who does not smoke--Hunting the flying-squirrel--Diseases among the natives--Their remedies--A splendid offer--Unpleasant companions--Trouble in getting dogs 178-187

A wedding--Love among the Australian natives--My first meeting with Yokkai--Big eaters--An accident--Left alone with Yokkai--A difficult descent--Return to Herbert Vale--A new beetle--Friends of the animals 212-222

A festival dance of the blacks--Their orchestra--A plain table--Yokkai wants to become "a white man"--Yokkai's confession--A dangerous situation--A family drama 236-246

Arrival of the native police--The murderer caught--Examination--Jimmy is taken to Cardwell--Flight of the prisoner--The officer of the law--Expedition to the Valley of Lagoons--A mother eats her own child--My authority receives a shock 247-255

The rainy season--How the evenings are spent--Hardy children--Mangola-Maggi's revenge--The crania of the Australians--The expedition to Cardwell--Dalrymple Gap--A scandalous murder--Entry into Cardwell--Yokkai as cook--"Balnglan's" death--Tobacco cures sorrow 256-268

Unpleasantnesses at Herbert Vale--New expeditions--Hunting human flesh--Cannibalism--Human flesh is the greatest delicacy of the Australian blacks--Superstitions in connection with the eating of human flesh--The taste of the cannibals--Cannibalism in Burma 269-274

The burial of the blacks--Black mummies--Sorcerers or wizards--Myths and legends--The doctrine of the Trinity in New South Wales--The belief in a future life among the blacks 275-285

My life in danger--Morbora's ingratitude--Another danger--My position grows more precarious--The black man's fondness for imitating 286-292

Winter in Northern Queensland--Snakes as food--Hunting snakes--An unexpected guest at night--Yokkai's first dress--Norway's "mountains of food"--Departure from Herbert Vale--Farewell to the world of the blacks 293-302

Message sticks--The common origin of the dialects--Remarkably complicated grammar--The language on Herbert river--Comparison of a few dialects 303-313

Frozen meat--Again in Gracemere--Australian scenery--In a carriole--Hunting the dugong--Cosmopolitan quarters for the night--Cure for nervous diseases--Poisonous rabbits--Marry only a person with good teeth--Bush girls--Mount Morgan 314-324

A family of zoologists--Flesh-eating kangaroos--How the ant-eater propagates--Civilised natives--Weapons and implements--Civilisation and demoralisation 325-338

Religion--Blacks in the service of the white men--Fickle minds--Settlers and natives on the borders of civilisation--Morality--A life and death struggle--The cruelty of the whites--Future prospects of the Australian natives 339-349

History of the Discovery 355

History of the Colonies 359

INDEX 389

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BLACK SWAN 1

FLINDERS STREET, ADELAIDE 3

VIEW NEAR ADELAIDE 4

THE LIBRARY, MELBOURNE 6

THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, MELBOURNE 7

NATIVE BEAR WITH ITS YOUNG 10

TREE-FERNS IN VICTORIA 11

SYDNEY HARBOUR 13

THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 15

THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE, BRISBANE 17

FROGS ENTERING A WATER-JAR 18

GRACEMERE STATION 20

THE MAIN BUILDING, GRACEMERE STATION 21

LAUGHING JACKASS 26

A WOOL-WAGGON 31

HEAD OF "MORE PORK" 32

SPIDER PARALYSED BY A HORNET 38

QUEENSLAND NATIVE MOUNTED POLICE 46

FLINT KNIFE FROM GEORGINA RIVER WITH ITS SHEATH 48

POUCH FOR THE CARRYING OF PITURI 49

BOOMERANGS FROM QUEENSLAND 51

STOCK-MAN'S WHIP 53

REST UNDER A BOTTLE-TREE 55

BUSHMEN 58

A SQUATTER'S HOMESTEAD 59

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