Australasia and the Oceanic Region: With Some Notice of New Guinea |
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acres Adelaide amongst Archipelago arrived Ballarat Batavia boats Borneo Brisbane buffalo Burke Town Cape Captain cattle China climate coast colony Company Cooper's Creek copper distance district Dutch east eastern Echuca expedition exported feet high fifty fish forty Geelong gold Government Guinea harbour head hills Hobart Town horses inches island Java labour Lake land latitude Launceston lease longitude Malays Melbourne miles in length miles north miles north-west Moluccas months mountains Murray natives navigable north-east Northern Territory ounces Palmerston Papuans party Peninsula population Port Augusta Port Darwin Port Essington Port Phillip quartz Queensland railway rajah ranges reefs reside River round route runs season settlement sheep shillings ship shore side Singapore Sourabaya South Australia South Wales south-east south-west square miles station steamer Sumatra Sydney telegraph thence thirty timber Timor tons trees twenty vessels Victoria wheat whilst Yam Creek
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Page 216 - At the dead hour of night, in the wildest and most inhospitable wastes of Australia, with the fierce wind raging in unison with the scene of violence before me, I was left, with a single native, whose fidelity I could not rely upon, and who for aught I knew might be in league with the other two, who perhaps were even now, lurking about with the view of taking away my life as they had done that of the overseer.
Page 248 - I found the party halted, and immediately went across to the blacks' wurleys, where I found King sitting in a hut which the natives had made for him. He presented a melancholy appearance — wasted to a shadow, and hardly to be distinguished as a civilised being but by the remnants of clothes upon him. He seemed exceedingly weak, and I found it occasionally difficult to follow what he said. The natives were all gathered round, seated on the ground, looking with a most gratified and delighted expression.
Page 337 - The Spring months are September, October, and November ; the Summer, December, January, and February ; Autumn, March, April, and May: Winter, June, July, and August.
Page 33 - ... annual value. The qualification for a member of Council is merely that he must be thirty years of age, a natural-born or naturalised subject, and a resident in the province for three years. The President of the Council is elected by the members. The House of Assembly consists of thirty-six members, elected for three years by eighteen districts, but liable to dissolution by the executive. The sole qualification for an elector is that...
Page 100 - ... like a bird, and yet hops on its tail ; where the mole lays eggs and has a duck's bill ; where there is a bird with a broom in its mouth instead of a tongue ; where the pears are made of wood, with the stalk at the broader end; and where the cherry grows with the stone on the outside.
Page 146 - Celebes and the Moluccas. The birds which are most abundant in the Western islands are woodpeckers, barbets, trogons, fruit-thrushes, and leaf-thrushes ; they are seen daily, and form the great ornithological features of the country. In the Eastern islands these are absolutely unknown, honeysuckers...
Page 147 - Spirito Santo, are found at the extremity of a line of smaller islands. These analogies might have facilitated the progress of discovery, and especially contributed to make each archipelago more easily recognised. By carefully marking the direction of a chain, navigators might have become almost certain of discovering new islands ; and even still, they ought to attend to a principle which may put them on their guard against immense reefs which, in all probability, follow the direction of chains at...
Page 396 - Carver to the river now known as the Columbia and afterward somewhat vaguely to the vast country drained by it. The present Oregon. State of Oregon is about 375 miles from east to west and 200 miles from north to south and comprises an area of 96,699 square miles. Its population in 1910 was 672,765. Oregon, like Washington, extends across the mountain belt and includes much of the interior plateau. It has thus a wide range of climate, that of the coast being mild, equable, and humid, and that of...
Page 100 - It is New Holland," says an accurate and acute observer, " where it is summer with us when it is winter in Europe, and vice versa ; where the barometer rises before bad weather, and falls before good; where the north is the hot wind, and the south the cold ; where the humblest house is fitted up with cedar...
Page 384 - ... east. It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the Isthmus of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean; on the south by the Southern Ocean, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.