Aborigines:appearance,167;life,168;fighting,168;Mr. Moore's narrative about,169;customs,169;dress,170;Mr. Carr's story,170;Ngooraialum and Bangerang tribes,170;weapons,173;fierceness of Northern blacks,173;Corroboree, a,174;cannibalism,174;trackers, their usefulness as,174;Mission stations,175;Lake Tyers station,176;Hagenauer, Rev. F. A., letter of, about,177;Acacia,200Adelaide:founding,103;Glenelg,103;houses,103,104;streets and parks,103;surroundings,103;churches,104;Victoria Square,105;King William Street,105;Botanical Gardens,105;Albany,138Albert, river,125Alligator stories,113Amadeus, lake,101Araucarias,202Argus snipe,192Australia:former errors about,14,23;exports,14;population,14;prosperity,14;colonies,15;capitals,15;people,16;area,19;mountains,20;snow,20;river system,20;physical geography,21;climate,21,76,101,112,138;hot winds,22;temperature,22;storms,22;natives,23;,167;fires,23;,213;rainfall,24;drought, losses by,25,76,94,208;not yet fully explored,25;democracy,29;securities, rise in,30;federation movement,30;immigration,30;wages,30;prices,31;religion,31;service, a rural,32;Sunday observance,32;sects,34;Sunday schools,34;church building,34;Australia Felix,40Australian Alps, the,40Avon, river,68Bairnsdale,69Ballarat:impressions,59;Botanical Gardens,60;discovery of gold,60;situation,61;the Corner,61;Trollope on,62Barcoo, river,164Barrier Reef, the,123Barrow Creek, station at,109Bass, story of,155Bass's Straits,144Bathurst,93Batman, settlement of, in Victoria,38Baudin, M., treachery of,157Baxter, murder of,158Bear, native,181Beechworth,69Belfast,66Ben Lomond,147Bendigo,seeSandhurst.Big Scrub, New South Wales,95Birds of Paradise,186Bishopscourt, view from, Melbourne,43Black boy,202Black-fish,194Black Spur, the,72Black Thursday in South Australia,213;in Victoria,214Blackheath,90Blayney,94Blue gum,200200Blue Mountains,87Blue wren,186Boomerang, the,173Booth, Mr. E. C., on Shepparton,67Boroina,202Bosisto, Mr. J., on Eucalyptus,199Botany Bay, discovery of,76Bottle-tree,201Bourke Street, Melbourne,49Bourke, New South Wales,94;a winter day at,94Bowen,123Box-tree,208Bower bird,188Box-scrub, the,136Bream,193Breeza plains,295Bremer, river,119Bremoroma,94Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne,43Brisbane, population,119;site,119;streets,119;beauty,120;garden of Acclimatisation Society,120;houses,121;Broome, Sir F. N., on life in Western Australia,140Brown, Mr. G. A., on sheep breeding,205Buffaloes,113Bulmer, Rev. J., at Lake Tyers,176Bundaberg,112Bunbury,135Burke, R. O'Hara, expedition of,161Burketown,125Burnett, river,122Bustard,190Cairns,124Caldwell, Mr. W. H., on the platypus,185Cam, river,146Camels at Beltana,107Canoona rush, the, in Queensland,129Cape Grant,67Cape Nelson,67Cape Otway ranges, fire at,214Capertee,91Capitals,15Cardwell,124Carr, Mr. E. M., on the natives,170Carriers,210Castle hill,87Casuarina Striata,200Cats, native,182Cattle-raising,204Cattle, number of, in Australia,14Central Trunk Railway, Queensland,122Charters Towers,123Churches, the, state of,31Clarence, river,96Clermont,123Climate,21,76,101,112,138Coaching, Trollope on,70Cobb, who he was,70Cockatoo,186Cohan,94Colac lake,65Collins lands at Sorrento,38Collins Street, Melbourne,49Concherry, river,162Cook, Captain, discovers Botany Bay,76Cooktown,124Cooper's Creek, native settlement at,164Corangamite lake,64Corra Linn,145Corroboree, a,174Cotton growing in Queensland,129Crosbie, Clara, story of,219Cunningham's Gap,119Cutting out cattle,204Cycads,202Dalby,122Darling Downs,118,119Darling, river,21,94Dasyuridæ, the,182Deloraine,145Democracy,29D'Entrecasteaux Channel,151Depôt Glen, Sturt at,23Derwent, river,150Devil, Tasmanian,182Dibbs, Mr., on losses by drought,25Dingo,183Dog, wild,183Don, river,146Dow, Mr. T. K., on farming,211Drought, losses by,25,76,76,208Dubbo,94Ducks, wild,191;mountain duck,191;black duck,191;wood duck,191;teal,191;widgeon,191;blue wing,191Eaglebank Neck,151Elder, Sir Thomas, introduces camels,107Emu, chase of,188Emu Plains,88;Dr. J. E. Taylor on,90Eucalypt,194Eucalyptus amygdalina,196E. dumosa,199E. ficifolia,199E. globus,200E. rostrata,197Exploration:Sturt's exploration,23;Bass and Flinders, story of,155;Baudin, M., treachery of,157;Eyre, E. J., travels of,158;Forrest, J., journey of,159,164;Leichhardt, L., story of,159;Kennedy disaster, the,160;Stuart, J. McDougall, journey of,161;Burke's expedition,161;M'Kinlay's party,164;Landsborough's party,164;Walker's party,164;Howitt's party,164;Warburton's party,164Exports of Australia,14Eyre, E. J., explorations of,158Eyre, lake,101Farming,211Fauna:alligators,113;buffaloes,113;pearls,139;kangaroo, 'old men,'181;,185;marsupial mouse,181;wombat,181;flying fox,181;native bear,181;Bass River opossum,182;Tasmanian tiger-wolf,182;Tasmanian devil,182;dingo,183;platypus,185;birds,185;parrots,185;birds of Paradise,185;king parrot,186;blue mountain parrot,186;lories,186;parroquets,186;love-birds,186;blue wren186;cockatoos,186;lyre-birds,186;bower birds,188;laughing jackass,188;emu,188;bustard,190;native companion,191;wild ducks,191;black swan,191;snipe,191;quail,192;wonga-wonga,192;bronze-wing pigeon,192;snakes,192;shark catching,193;trout,193;salmon,193;perch,193;bream,193;Murray cod,193;sea salmon,193;Murray-perch,193;golden-perch,193;black-fish,194;whiting,194;schnapper,194Favenc, Mr. E., on exploration,25Fawkner, settlement of, in Victoria,39Fawkner's Park,39Federation movement, the,30Feilberg, Mr. C. A, on Queensland,117Ferns,196Fig-tree, the,126Fingal,147Fires,23,213Fish River caves,91Fitzroy, river,122Flame-tree,201Flora:nettle-tree,127;poisonous plants,136;box scrub,136;rock plant,136;heart-leaf plant,136;York road plant,136;wild flowers,138;eucalypt,194;mallee scrub,195;giant gums,195,197;spinifex,195;ferns,196;palm-tree,196;musk-tree,196;Pittosporum,196;silver gum,197;red gum,197;jarrah,136,198;blue gum,200;acacia or wattle,200;tea-tree scrub,200;shea-oak,200;bottle-tree,201;flame-tree,201;cycads,202;palm lilies,202;grass-trees,202;warratah,202;boronia,202;araucarias,202;heaths,202;grapes,202;Mitchell grass,205;box-tree,208Flinders, story of,155Flinders' Lane, Melbourne,44Flying fox,181Forbes,94Forrest, John, journey of,159,164Firth,146Fremantle,137Gastrolobium anylobiaides,136G. bilobum,136G. callistachys,136G. calycinum,136Gardiner, lake,101Geelong, founding,62;growth,62;exports,62;tweeds of,63Geraldton,135Gippsland, scenery of,67Gladstone,122Glenelg,103Golden perch,193Golden Point, discovery of gold at,60Gould on Australian birds,186Grant, Lieut., discovers Port Phillip,37Grapes,202Grass-trees,202Gray, story of,161Great Divide, the,96Great West Railway, New South Wales,87Grey, Earl, circular of, on convicts,135Guildford,135Guilfoyle, Mr., director of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne,52Gulf of Carpentaria,125Gums, giant,195;height of,196,197Gympie,123;discovery of gold field at,130Hagenauer, Rev. F. A., on the aborigines,177Harvesting system,211Hawkesbury sandstone,90Hayter, Mr. H. H., on wages,30Heart-leaf, the,136Heaths,202Henty, Messrs., in Portland Bay,38Heron, river,151Heytesbury forest,215Hindmarsh, Captain, first governor of South Australia,103Hobart, description of,150Hoddle, Robert, lays out Geelong,62Holdfast Bay, first landing at,103Horses, number of, in Australia,14Horsham,67Hospitality,207Hot winds,22Hovell arrives at Port Phillip,38Howitt, party of,164Hume arrives at Port Phillip,38Hurleys, the, at the fire at Otway ranges,215Immigration, extent of,30Ipswich,119,122Jacky, the black, fidelity of,160Jarrah forests,136,198Jenola,91Kanakas, the,128Kangaroo, old man,181,185Kangaroo hunting,184Kennedy, Edmund, story of,160Kiama,87King, story of,161King George's Sound,138Kingfisher, or laughing jackass,188Knocklofty,150Lake St. Clair,150Lake Sorell,150Lake Tyers Mission Station,176Landells, story of,161Landsborough, expedition of,164Laughing jackass,188Launceston,144Leichhardt, Ludwig, story of,159Leptospermum,200Lithgow Vale, New South Wales,91Livistoniapalm, the196Loddon, river,68Lories,186Lorne,72Lost in the bush,217Loutit Bay,72Love-birds,186Lyre-bird,186Macarthy, River,111Mackay,123Macquarie Harbour,151Macquarie, river,93Magpie, musical,188Mallee scrub, rabbits in,68;extent of,195Mary, river,121Maryborough,121Melbourne:site,43;population,43;area,43;description,43;houses,43;Government House,43;Exhibition Building,43;streets,43;Flinder's Lane,44;Collins Street,49;Scott's,49;Bourke Street,49;inrush and outrush,49;railways,49;public buildings,50;;university,52;botanic gardens,52;water supply,52;reserves,53;cricket,54;the Yarra,54;drawbacks,55;climate,55;unearned increment,56Meander, river,145Menura Victoriæ, the,186Merino sheep,206Mermaid's Cave, the, New South Wales,90Mersey, river,145Mitchell, Sir Thomas, verdict of,39Mitchell grass,205M'Kinlay, expedition of,164Moreton Bay,118Moore, Mr. G. F., on aborigines,169Morriss, Mr., school teacher to the blacks,176Morsman's Bay, view from,80Mosquito Plains, caves of the,106Mount Barker,106Mount Baw-Baw eucalypt, height of,197Mount Bischoff tin mine,146Mount Clay,67Mount Franklin,40Mount Kosciusko,20Mount Lindsay,96Mount Lofty range,103Mount Wellington,150Mountain system,20Mouse, marsupial,181Mudgee line, New South Wales,91Mueller, Baron von, on tea-tree scrub,200Murray cod,193Murray perch,193Murray plains,67Murray, river,21,100Musk-tree,196Myers, Mr. F. H., on Sydney,79Narrawong,67Nash discoversGympiegold-field,130Native companion, the,191Natives, destructiveness of,23Nettle-tree, the,127New Norfolk,150New South Wales:area,15,75;population,15;losses by drought,25;climate,76;drought,76,94;settlement,76;Port Jackson,76;statistics,79;Sydney,79;South Coast Railway,84;Kiama,87;Great West Railway,87;Paramatta,87;Castle Hill,87;Toongabbie,87;Blue Mountains,87;Emu Plains,88;Penrith,89;Windsor,89;Richmond,89;geology,90;Blackheath, Mermaid's Cave,90;Lithgow Vale,91;Capertee,91;Mudgee line,91;Walerawang,91;Tarana,91;Fish River caves,91;Jenola,91;Bathurst,93;Blayney,94;Orange,94;Forbes,94;Wellington Valley,94;Dubbo,94;cattle,94;Darling, the,94;Cohan,94;Bourke,94;Bremoroma,94;Welcanna,94;Wentworth,94;Great Northern Railway,95;Newcastle,95;Breeza Plains,95;Richmond, the,95;Tweed, the,95;Big Scrub,95;Cane fields,96;Great Divide, the,96;Mount Lindsay,96;Clarence, the,96;Nightcap, the,96Newcastle,95Nightcap, the, New South Wales,96Norman, river,125Normanton,125North Esk, river,144Northern Territory,seeS. Australia.Northern Trunk Line of Queensland,123Oakleigh, a suburb of Melbourne,43Opossum,182Orange,94Ornithorhynchus, the,185Overland Telegraph Line,108Palm-lilies,202Palm-trees,196Palmer gold-field,124,130Palmerston, mines of,111Palmerston and Pine Creek line,110Paramatta,87Parrots,185Parroquets,186Peake Telegraph Station,109Pearl fisheries of Western Australia,139Penrith,89Perch,193Pérouse, expedition of,76Perth, description of,136Phillip, Captain Arthur, governor at Port Jackson,76Physical geography,21Pigeon, bronze-wing,192Piping crow,188Pittosporum,196Platypus,185Poole, death of, at Depôt Glen,23Population of Australia,14Porcupine grass,195Port Arthur, convicts at,151Port Darwin, vegetation at,111Port Douglas,124Port Essington,113Port Jackson,76Port Phillip:discovery,37;beauty,38;Howell and Hume arrive at,38;settlement,38Portland,66Portland Bay,67Potatoes, yield of,66Power, Mrs., at the fire at Otway ranges,215Prices,31Quail,192Quamby Bluff,146Queensland:area and population,15;description,117;settlement,118;convicts there,118;Toowoomba,119,122;Bremer, the,119;Ipswich,119,122;Brisbane,119;Maryborough,121;Rockhampton,121;Bundaberg,122;Gladstone,122;Warwick,122;Stanthorpe,122;Dalby,122;Roma,122;Central Trunk Railway,122;Clermont,123;Gympie,123,130;Mackay,123;Bowen,123;Barrier Reef, the,123;Townsville,123;Charters Towers,123;Ravenswood,123;Northern Trunk Line,123;Cardwell,124;Cairns,124;Port Douglas,124;Palmer gold field,124;,130;Cooktown,124;Thursday Island,124;Gulf of Carpentaria,125;Normanton,125;Burketown,125;cattle,125;sheep farming,125;agriculture,126;scrublands,126;vegetation,126;labour question, the,127;sugar growing,128;exports,128;cotton growing,129;olives,129;almond,129;figs,129;silk,129;mineral wealth,129;coal,129;Canoona rush, the,129;Nash discovers Gympie gold field,130Rabbits, curse of,68Raffles Bay,113Railways in Victoria,49;in Sydney,84;in Tasmania,152Rainfall,24;in Sydney,84;in Tasmania,152Rainfall, taking advantage of,209Ravenswood,123Red gum,197Richardson, river,68Richmond,89Richmond, river,95Ring barking,209River system,20Rock plant, the,136Rockhampton,121Roeburne,135Roma,122Roper, river,111;alligators in,113Russell, Mr. H. C., on physical geography and climate of Australia,21St. Helens,147St. Mary's Pass,147Sale,69Salmon,193Sandhurst, ups and downs of,56;gold in,60Sarcophilus, the,182Satin bird,188Schools of Victoria,70Schnapper,194Scott's, Melbourne,49Sea-salmon,193Selectors,212Service, a rural,32Settler's clock,188Shark catching,193Shea-oak,200Sheep, number of, in Australia,14Sheep breeding,205Sheep runs,207Sheep shearing,210Shepherds, life of,206Shepparton,67Silk cultivation in Queensland,129Silver gum,197Smith, philosopher, story of,146Smyth, Mr. B., on native weapons,173;on gum-trees,197Snakes,192;treatment for bites of,193Snow,20Snipe,191Sorrento occupied by Collins,38;beauty of,38South Australia:Area,15,99;population,15;divisions,99;Murray, the,100;scenery,100;Lake Torrens,101;Lake Eyre,101;Lake Gardiner,101;Lake Amadeus,101;climate,101;fruits,102;Adelaide,103;Mount Lofty range,103;industries,105;wheat,106;Mount Barker,106;Caves of the Mosquito Plains,106;camels at Beltana,107;Overland Telegraph Line,108;Peake Telegraph Station,109;Barrow Creek 'stuck up' at,109;railway construction,110;Northern Territory: history,110;settlement,111;climate,112;Roper, the,111;Macarthy, the,111;alligators,113;buffaloes,113;Black Thursday,213South Coast Railway, N. S. Wales,84South Esk, river,144South Sea Islanders in Queensland,128Spinifex,195Squatters and Settlers:Description,203;cattle raising,204;cutting out,204;sheep breeding,205;merino sheep,206;hospitality,207;mode of travelling,207;sheep runs,207;drought,208;houses,208;sheep shearing,210;carriers,210;swagmen or sundowners,210;farming,211;harvesting system,211;stripper, the,211;selecting, mode of,212;fires,213;lost in the bush,217Staghorn fern,196Stanthorpe,122Stapleton, Mr., murder of,110Sterculia acerifolia,201Stevenson, falls of the,72Stirling, Sir James, in Western Australia,134Storms,22Strangways Springs,110Stripper, the,211Stuart, J. M. D., travels of,110,161Sturt's detention at Depôt Glen,23Sunday observance,32Sundowners,210Surrey Hills, a suburb of Melbourne,43Swagmen,210Swan, black,191Swan, river,135,138Sydney:harbour,79;North Shore,79;view from Morsman's Bay,80;churches,80;public buildings,80;railways,84Sydney Cove,76Tamar, river,144Tarana,91Tasmania:a holiday resort for Australians,143;Tamar, the,144;Launceston,144;North Esk, the,144;South Esk, the,144;Corra Linn,145;Deloraine,145;Menada, the,145;Mersey, the,145;sheep,145;Quamby Bluff,146;Don, the,146;Cam, the,146;Forth, the,146;Mount Bischoff,146;Waratah, the,146;Ben Lomond,147;St. Mary's Pass,147;Fingal,147;St. Helen's,147;macadamised road, the great,148;Hobart,150;Derwent, the,150;Lake St. Clair,150;Lake Sorell,150;New Norfolk,150;convicts at Port Arthur,151;Eaglebank Neck,151;D'Entrecasteaux Channel,151;Heron, the,151;Macquarie Harbour,151;area,151;population,152;revenue,152;railways,152;exports and imports,152Taylor, Dr. J. E., on Geology of Emu Plains,90Tea-tree scrub,200Temperature,22TennisonWoods on the caves of theMosquitoPlains,106Thomas, Mr., on Lake District of Victoria,64Tiger snake,192Tiger-wolf, Tasmanian,182Thursday Island,124Thylacinus, the,182Todd, Mr. Charles, and the Overland Telegraph Line,108Toongabbie,87Toowoomba,119,122Torrens, lake,101Trackers, black,174Townsville,123Trollope, Anthony, on Ballarat,62;on coaching,70Trout,193;fly-fishing for,194Turkey, wild,190Tweed, river,95Victoria:area,15;population,15;protectionist,30;foundation,37;convicts there,38;bad name given to,38;settlement,38;mountains,40;Melbourne,43;;railways,49,56;Sandhurst,56;Ballarat,59;Wendouree, lake,60;discovery of gold at Golden Point,60;Geelong,62;Corangamite, lake,64;Lake Colac,65;Warnambool,66;Belfast,66;Portland,66;potatoes,66;Portland Bay,67;mountains,67;Gippsland,67;Murray plains,67;Shepparton,67;Wimmera District,67;rabbits,68;Avon, the,68;Richardson, the,68;Wimmera, the,68;Loddon, the,68;wheat lines of railway,68;Beechworth,69;Sale,69;Bairnsdale,69;State schools,70;Cobb, story of,70;coaching,70;Falls of the Stevenson,72;Black Spur, the,72;Loutit Bay,72;Lorne,72;Black Thursday,214Wages,30Walerawang,91Walker, expedition of,164Wallace, Mr. A. A., on flowers of Australia,138Waratah, river,146Warburton, expedition of,164Warratah,202Warwick,122Wattle,200Welcanna,94Wellington Valley,94Wendouree, lake,60Wentworth,94Western Australia:area,15,133;population,15;foundation of the colony,134;large estates in,134;convicts,135;Swan, river,135;Fremantle,135;Perth,135;Guildford,135;Bunbury,135;Albany,135;Geraldton,135;Roeburne,135;vegetation,136;jarrah forests,136;poisonous plants,136;King George's Sound,138;climate,138;wild flowers of,138;Sir F. N. Broome on life there,140;gold discoveries,140Western District of Victoria,40,63;Mr. Thomas on,64Wheat lines of Wimmera,68Whittaker, Mr. S. H., on fire at Otway ranges,214Whiting,194Wianamatta Shales, the,90Wills, W. J., story of,161Windsor,89Wimmera District,67;rabbits in,68;wheat lines of,68Wimmera, river,68Winter day at Bourke, New South Wales,94Wombat,181Wonga-wonga,192Wornambool,66Wreck Creek, native encampment at,173Wright, story of,161Wylie, the black boy, faithfulness of,158Xanthorrhœa,202Yagan, an aborigine, story of,169Yarra Park, Melbourne,54Yarra, river,54York-road plant, the,136