Albatross,45,51.Alta, Central Pacific Railway,258.American cousins,296;Indians,262;manners,291;railway cars,251.Amusements onboard ship,18,24,25,43,54,56.Arrival of Home Mail, Majorca,179.Arum esculentum, Honolulu,227.Atlantic and Pacific Railway,250-274;the railway cars,251;Sacramento city,253;scenery of the Sierra Nevada,255;Cape Horn,258;snow-sheds,259,270;the Summit,259;the Sage desert,261;Shoshonie Indians,262;Devil's Peak,263;Weber Cañon,266;Laramie City,270;Cheyenne,272;Prairie Dog City,273;River Platte,273;arrival at Omaha,274.Auckland, New Zealand,205-211.Aurora Australis,129.Australia, first sight of,56;last,204.Autumn rains, Majorca,130.Avoca,176.Azores,17.Ballarat, visit to,163-170.Bank, at Majorca,91,130.Bank-robbing,159.Bar at a Gold-rush,87.Batman, first settler in Victoria,63.Battle Mount, Nevada,262.Becalmed on the Line,29.Beggars, absence of in Victoria,64,95.Bell-bird,134.Birds in South Atlantic,50.Black Thursday in Victoria,121.'Blue Jacket,' burning of,32-38.Bonitos,22,25.Booth's Theatre, New York,299.Botanic Gardens Melbourne,71.Botany Bay,193.Bourke Street, Melbourne,61.Brighton,59,71.Brooke, the murderer,156-158.Bush-Animals:—marsupials,131,132,138,139;reptiles,137;birds,134-136.Bush-fires,121.Bush, the,104;in summer,118,127;by moonlight,178.Bush-piano,129.Calms on the Line,29.Cape Brett,205.Cape de Verd Islands,21.Cape Horn, Central Pacific Railway,258.Cape Leeuwin,56.Cape of Good Hope,44,47.Cape Otway,56,57.Cape-pigeons,46,51.Carlton Gardens, Melbourne,65.Castlemaine,80.Castle Rocks, Rocky Mountains,267.Cautions against robbers,160,299.Central Pacific Railway,255-264.Channel, in the,5,6.Cheltenham, Australia,71.Cheyenne, U.S.,272.Chicago, arrival at,279;enterprise of,280;water-supply,280-281;tunnels under river,281,284;buildings,283,284;pigs and pork,284;grain-trade of,285;sleighs,286;departure from,287.Chinese, character,65-66;gardens and gardeners,93,110,115;music,102;burials,103;gold-diggers,142-144,148;at Honolulu,234;at San Francisco,246.Christmas, in Victoria,121,190.'City of Melbourne,'s.s.,202-219.Climate of Victoria:winter,107;spring,116;summer,117;autumn,125,130.Clunes,109-111,170.Coach, journeys by:Castlemaine to Majorca,81;Clunes to Ballarat,164;Auckland to Onehunga,208.Cochon Islands,53.Collingwood Bank, attempt to rob,159.Collins Street, Melbourne,62.Cook, Capt., in New South Wales,193.Corner, the, Ballarat,168.Council Bluffs, U.S.,276.Crab-holes,171.Crozet Islands,52.Dale Creek Bridge, U.S.,271.Death on board ship,242.Deck-bath in Tropics,23.Descent into a gold-mine,147.Detroit, U.S.,290;to Niagara,290-292.Devil's Peak, Rocky Mountains,263;Gate,266.Diggers,at a gold-rush,86,87,88;amateur,145;Chinese,142,148;hospitality of,97,98.Diggers' tales,126,150,155.Divers, Honolulu,232.Drink-licence, Honolulu,234.Drunkenness, absence of, in Majorca,94.Dust-winds in Victoria,128.Echo City and Cañon, U.S.,267.Elsternwick,71.Elko, Nevada,263.Epsom, New Zealand,209.Eucalyptus,108.Farms, near Majorca,125,126,128.Ferry-boat, San Francisco,249.Fête at Talbot,173-175;at Majorca, for School-fund,185.Fires in the Bush,121.Fire-brigade, Ballarat,169.Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne,65.Flies in Majorca,121.Floods, about Majorca,111;at Ballarat,113-114;at Clunes,113.Flowers, Majorca,117.Flying-fish,22,217.Frenchman in Majorca,181.Fruits, Majorca,122.Funeral of Majorca Town Clerk,187.'Galatea,' H.M.S.,205,210.'George Thompson,' of London,41.Germans, in Victoria,90,91,180,181.Genesee Falls, U.S.,297.Goat Island, Niagara,293.Gold: buying,140-144;finding,150-152;mining,145-152,166,256;purifying,141-142;rushing,85-88,153,165,166.Grain-trade, Chicago,285.Grapes, in Victoria,124.'Great Britain,' of Liverpool,191.Green sea, shipping a,49.Gum-tree, Australian,83,108.Harvest-time, Majorca,125.Havelock rush,154.Hawaii,218.Heat in summer, Australia,118.Holystoning,13.Honey suckers,134.Honolulu: arrival at,219;the harbour,220;commercial importance of,222;description of,223;churches,224;Post Office,224;King's Palace at,226;visit to the Nuuanu Valley,226-231;Poi,227;Queen Emma's villa,228;the Pali,230;the natives,231;the women,233;liquor-licences,234;Chinese opium-licence,234;theatricals at,235;climate of,227,236.Honolulu to San Francisco,237-243.Horse-shoe Fall, Niagara,294.Hudson River,298.Humboldt, U.S.,261.Ice-Bird,51.Ice consumption in U.S.,288.Ice harvest, Lake Michigan,288.Illinois Prairie,278.Irish in Majorca,91.Kalamazoo, U.S.,290.Kamehameha V.,237.Kanakas, Honolulu,229-233.Kangaroo,138,200.Landing in Australia,59.Laramie City, U.S.,270.Leatherheads,134.Leeches in Victoria,129.Les Apôtres Islands,53.Libraries, Public, in Australia,—Melbourne,66;Ballarat,167;Majorca,186.Line, cross the,29,217.Liquor-law, Honolulu,234.Lowe Kong Meng Mine,147.'Lord Raglan,'26,27.Lovers' Seat, Niagara,295.Luggage, on American Railways,290.Lung complaints, sea voyage in,10.MacCullum's Creek,114.Macquarie Lighthouse,194.Magpie, Australian,135.Mails: Victoria and Honolulu,225;delays of, New Zealand,210;newspapers by Ocean mail, treatment of,218;arrival at Majorca,179.Majorca, life in,84-188.Manukau Bay, New Zealand,210.Maoris,207.Marsupials,138,139.Maryborough,81;rush at,126.Mathews, Mr. Charles,192,235.Mauna Loa, Sandwich Islands,219.Melbourne, arrival at,60;description of,62;youth of,63;rapid growth of,64;absence of beggars,64;the Chinese quarter,65;public library,67;visit to Pentridge Prison,67-70;Botanic Gardens,71;the Yarra,71;the sea suburbs of,71;hospitality of,72;Christmas in,190.Michigan City, U.S.,289.Michigan, Lake,280-282,285,287.Mina Birds,135.Mississippi River,228.Missouri River,276.Monument to Cook, 193 (note) (now Page201,footnote 14).Moonlight in Victoria,119,178.Mormon fortifications,267.'Moses Taylor,'s.s.,232,239,241.Mount Greenock, Australia,122.Musquitoes133,236.New chums,64,247.New York,298.New Zealand,202-211.Niagara Falls in winter,292-296.Nursery Gardens, Rochester,297.Nuuanu Valley, Honolulu,226.Oahu Island,222.Oakland, California,251.Ogden, Utah,264.Onehunga, New Zealand,208-210.Opium-licence, Honolulu,234.Opossum-shooting,131-133.Pacific, up the,212-243.Pali, of the Nuuanu Valley,230.Paroquets,135,136.Parliament House, Melbourne,61.'Patterv.Clatter,' at Honolulu, 235 (note) (now Page236,footnote 16).Pentridge Prison,67-70.Phosphorescence,17.Pigtail, Chinese,66.Piping-Crow,135,136.Platte River, U.S.,274.Plymouth Harbour,8.Poi,227,228.Port Jackson,194-196,203.Port Phillip Heads,57.Possession Island,53.'Pyrmont,' of Hamburg,32,38.Queenscliffe, Australia,58,191.Race with 'George Thompson,'42.Railway: Atlantic and Pacific,seeAtlantic;to Castlemaine,79;carriage, American,251;smash,289;touters at S. Francisco,247.Rain in Victoria,109,111.Robbed in New York,299.Rochester, U.S.,296.'Rosa' of Guernsey, abandoned,7.Rough life at the Diggings,153.Rushes, gold,85,86,153,165,166.Sacramento, California,254.Sage-bush,261.'Saginaw,' wreck of the,238.Sail Rock, New Zealand,205.St. Kilda, Victoria,59,71.San Antonio,21.Sandridge, Victoria,59,61,65,191.Sandwich Islands,221.San Francisco,243-250;arrival at,243;Bay of,250;buildings,245;Chinese quarter,246;ferry-boat,249;money-brokers,246;railway touters,247;railway terminus,250;streets,246.Schools, Majorca,184.Scotch at Majorca,91.Serious family, visit to a,74.Shipping a green sea,49.Shooting sea-birds,52;opossums,131-133.Shoshonie Indians,262."Shouting" for drinks,94.Sierra Nevada,255-264.Sister Islands, Niagara,295.Snakes in the Bush,137.Snow-sheds and fences, Atlantic and Pacific Railway,259,260,270.South Atlantic,41.Spring at Majorca,116.Squatters,105,127,128.Steam-voyage, monotony of,212.Stevenson, on power of waves, 49 (note) (now Page53,footnote 2).Stink-pot,51.Stockton, California,253.Summer in Victoria,117.Sunrise in the Bush,178.Sunset in the Tropics,30.Suspension Bridge, Niagara,292.Sydney,196-202;age of,197;animals in Botanic Gardens,200;Botanic Gardens,199,200;compared with Melbourne,197,198;Cove,196;description of,197;domain,199;harbours,197;public buildings,197,199;suburbs,201.Sydney to New Zealand,202-211.Talbot,171-175.Taro-plant,227.Tea-meetings, Majorca,182.Teetotallers,183.Telegraph, Victoria,113,162.Theatres: Honolulu,224;Melbourne,61;New York,299.Theatricals on board ship,54,56.Thieves, New York,299.Thousand-mile Tree,267.Three King's Island, New Zealand,204.Trade winds,19.Trestle-bridges, Atlantic and Pacific Railway,256.Union Pacific Railway,265-274.Verein, opening of, Majorca,181.Victoria, when colonized,63,64.Victorian climate,seeClimate.Victorian life,179,182,188.Vineyards, Australia,125.Wahsatch Mountains, U.S.,266.Wallaby,139.Water-supply, Chicago,280,281.Wattle-birds,134.Weber Cañon,266.Western Pacific Railway,250,254.Whale-bird,46.Williamstown, Victoria,59,71.Wine in Victoria,124.Winter in Majorca,107.Wooloomooloo, Sydney,196.Work in Victoria,64,65,94.Wreck of 'Saginaw,'238.Wrens, Victorian,135.Yarra-Yarra River,70.'Yorkshire,'1-59.
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CONTENTS: These changes were made to match the chapter headings:Under CHAPTERII: The Cape de Verde changed to The Cape de Verd.Under CHAPTERIII: Paying my "Footing" changed to Paying "Footings".The Major's Wonderful Story "Capped" changed to The Major's Wonderful Stories.Under CHAPTERXIII: The Piping Crow changed to The Piping-Crow.Under CHAPTERXXII: Behavior changed to Behaviour (of the Ship).Under CHAPTERXXVII: A Railway Smash changed to A Railway Smashed.
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