Aberdeen, Lord and Lady,102Aborigines, Australasian,251,252,401Acheen Head,140Achu Mohammed,166Adam, Mr.,32Adelaide,264,266,269Adelaide Chamber of Commerce,468Aden,3Africa, British settlements on West coast of,440Afsur Jung,50Aga Sultan Mahomed Shah,60Agra,29,30Agriculture in Ceylon,100Ah Sam, the faithful Chinaman,394Air-compressing tubes for producing fire,148Albany,230,231Albany Pass,400Albatrosses,223Albion Lode Mine, Ballarat,282Albuquerque, Affonso,86,87Allas Strait,216Alligators,111,159,377Amateur surgery,144,404Amber, an ancient city of the Rajpoots,26Ambong Bay,168Amherstia nobilis,102Amomum repens,94Amritsar,21Ant-heaps,401,403Antique coaches,337Apollo Bunder, the,63,65Arco dos Vicereys, Goa,84Armadale,332Arnold, Mr. Edwin, quoted,43Ascension,438Australian exploration,270Australian gold-diggers,186,187Australian up-country hotels,354'Bacchante,' H.M.S.,59,63,70Bajans, or sea-gipsies,178,204'Bajara' (steamship),212,213Balhalla Island,175,178Ballarat,281Ballarat, Mayor and Mayoress of,281,282Ballard, Mr.,350Bannerman, Colonel,30Barnacles,218Barnes, Colonel,14Barram river,153,156Barrier Reef, Great,395-397Barter, native,149,161Bathing in the tropics,92Bathurst,318Baumantia,365Bêche-de-mer,394,396,397,414Bees,192Beeswax,192Bell-bird,321Beloochees,6Benares,32'Bengal' (steamship),288Bertram, Mr.,366Bevan, Mr.,310Beypoor,94Bijapur,51Bilian-wood,180Birds,377,379Bird's-nests,157,178,190-197,204Bird's-nest caves,177,189-197Birds of Paradise,214,418Bishop of Melbourne,295Black, Mr.,109Black Book of Taymouth,58'Black-boys' (Xanthorrhea),234Black-buck,39-41Blackheath Hill, Blue Mountains,320Black Spur,300Blacktown,317Bligh, Captain, of the 'Bounty,' 395Blue Mountains, the,319Blyden, Mr.,440Boats, Queensland native,372Boer, the,436'Bokhara,' P. & O.,141,142Bokharas, the,6Bolarum,37Bombay Light Horse,59Bombay and Burmah Company's timber-yard,130,131Boomerangs,218,232Booth, Mr. E.T., quoted,160Borneo,143Borneo weapons,184Bosanquet, Capt. and Mrs.,315,323Botanical Gardens, Ceylon,10;Sydney,323'Bottle-brush,' the,276Bougainvillea, the,350,365Boughton Islands,342'Bounty,' mutiny of the,395Bowen,369Boynton, Sir H., quoted,161Brassey, Lady, death of, xx,427,457Brassey, Lord, speeches of,466-478Bray, Mr.,270,314Breadfruit,373'Break-of-day' birds,242Bridge, Captain,372Bridge, Mr. (chaplain),14Brisbane,342Brisbane Sailing Club,347British African Company,440British North Borneo Company,143,168,190British settlements on West coast of Africa,440Broken-hill silver-mine,273'Bromo' (gunboat),212Brooke, Rajah,145Brown, Mr. Harvie, quoted,6Bruit river,153Brunei,160,162Brunei river,159,160Brunei, Sultan of,160,165Byculla Club ball,68Byculla races,70Byham's monument,38Bylus,125Buckboard, a,280Buck-hunting,39-41Buck-jumpers,281Bundey, Mr. Justice,267,270Burmese costumes,121Burmese bells,128Burnand, Mr.,274Bush flowers,253Bush hotel, a,241Cabbage-palms,383Cairns Harbour,388Caladium-leaf umbrellas,105Calamus,205Calicut,93Callaghan, Mr.,183,185,188Callocalia,157Campbell, Sir Colin,31Cannon, Mr.,26Canoes,415Cape Bustard,347Cape Byron,342Cape Colony,435Cape de Verdes,443Cape Direction,395Cape Flinders,262Cape Hawke,342Cape Rachada,141Cape Town,432,433Cape Tribulation,390Cape Yorke,404Cape wine-trade,431Cardamoms,94Cardwell,380Carey, Colonel,106Carrington, Lord and Lady,310,311,314,324Carwar,91Cattle-camp, a,363Cattle-rearing,334,340,362,400,428Cattle, wild,171Caulfield races,296Caves, bird's-nest,177,189-197Caves, Moulmein,134Cawnpore,30-32Ceylon,97Celebes, the,203Challenger Bay,372Chapman, Colonel,17Charts,399Cheetahs,39-41Chinamen in British colonies,339,384,394,405,428,430Chinese Commissioners in New South Wales,317,336,339Chlorination of gold ore,356Chronometers,227Church Missionary Society,440Clarence Strait,427Clarke, Sir W.,298Coach-travelling in the colonies,337,344,345,361Coaches, antique,337Coal,220Coaling-stations,438,440,443Coal-mines,329Cochin,94Cockatoos,253Cockburn,273Cochrane, Sir Thomas,159Cocoa-nut Island,413,421Cocoa-nuts,111,415,417Cocos, the,116Coffee-cultivation in Ceylon,101Coffee leaf-fungus,101Coffins in caves,197Colliery, a, in New South Wales,328Collisions at sea,388Colombo,97,98Coloured races, capabilities of,440Connaught, Duke and Duchess of,54,62,68,70Constantia,433Convicts, escaped,407Coode, Sir John,433Cook, Captain,395Cooktown,392Coral,401Coral reefs,396,399Cordery, Mr.,34,50Cornish miners in Australia,285Cornwall, Miss,283,284,288Corrugated-iron buildings,405Cowie, Mr. and Mrs.,167Cranes,377Crawford, Mr.,52,77Creek Meat Canning Factory,366Crocker, Mr.,143,176,183,185,188,195,206Crocodiles,113,172Crossing the line, ceremony of,215,216Crossthwaite, Mrs.,121,129Cubadjee (Australian aboriginal),276Cumberland Isles,367,368Da Carvalho, Captain,83Da Fonseca, quoted,85Daintree river,390Dairy farms,256Dalhousie, Lord,2Dances, Dyak,181Darling Downs, the,340Darling river,333Darnley Island,413,414Darvel Bay,186,203Dashtar, Mr.,10Davenport, Sir Samuel,269Davies, Mr.,170-172Day, Major and Mrs.,151Deakin, Mr.,292De Burgh Persse, Mr. and Mrs.,344De Castella, Mr.,300Delhi,26Des Graz, Mr.,50,92,240,298,374Dewani Khas, Jeypore,26De Winton, Sir Francis,442Dholepore,30Diamond-fields,437Diamond-trade,431Dillon, General,18Divers,410,424Dodd, Captain,134Dogs, regulations concerning, in Australia,231,332,354Doldrums, the,379Domestic life at Brunei,168Donaldson, Mr. H.D.,81Dowling Forest,283Drum, a native,402Dundas, Miss,289Dungeness,374Dusuns, the,181Dutch colonists,210,434Dyaks,148,151,152,156,160,181Earrings,167Eclipse of the moon,364Edible bird's-nests,94,138,189-197Elder, Sir Thomas,276Eleopura,175Elephants,45,111,113,130,131,134Elliott Island,347Ellora,32,33Elsmie, Mr.,21Emerald,359Endeavour river,359Erskine, Mr.,12Eucalypti,234,276,344Eucalyptus oil,393Everett, Mr.,155Evening at sea,93'Everlasting' flowers,250Exercise,256Exploration in South Australia,270Fairfax, Mrs.,289,323Falconberg,321Falkland Islands,387Falls of Gairsoppa,91Fanshawe, Captain,132Faraday, Professor, quoted,148Fayal,443-445Fences, Australian,297Ferguson, Mr., cited,51Fern-gullies,302,305,321Fern Island,399Ferns,365Fernshaw,301,303Fire-making by air-compressing tubes,148Fitzgerald, Mr.,395Fitzroy river,367Fleming, Mr.,430Flinders Channel,421Flint, Mr.,176,178,180,185Floating islands,154,208Flowers,253,365Fly Point,400Fly River,418-420Flying-fox Gully,319Fraser Island,347Funeral of a Phoongyee,124Funeral procession at Colombo,98Furdonji Jamsetjee, Mr.,42Futtehpore Sikri,29Galle,107Ganesh Khind,52Gardner, Mr.,326,332Gascoigne, Captain,315,317Gautama,127Geelong,286