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A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I arrive in Australia---Join my two Sons at their Sheep-station---Return to Melbourne and Remove to Ballaarat---Visit to Mr. Skene---My son studies Surveying---His rapid proficiency---Appointed to take charge of a Party---Letters on various subjects to his Mother and Brother at Home. In the month of August, 1853, I reached Melbourne, after a good voyage, having obtained an appointment as superintending surgeon of a government emigrant ship, commanded by Captain Young, a perfect sailor, and a gentleman I shall always remember with pleasurable feelings. More than two months elapsed before I could discover where my sons were. Having, at length, ascertained their locality, I purchased a horse and performed the journey in four days, resting one day on the road, at the station of Mr. Jefieries, on the Campaspe. I started at daylight, and made my fifty miles before halting, as I generally did about two P.m. I arrived at the shepherds' hut at five o'clock on a beautiful summer's evening, havingremained two hours at the hotel at Deniliquin to refresh. Bobberies on the road---stickings up as they are called---were rife at this period. Thefts also were common at the resting-houses. A gentleman who arrived at this hotel, not long before I was there, took the saddle off his horse, and placed it under the verandah : when he returned, after leading his animal to a paddock hard by, he missed the saddle, which he supposed had been removed by some person belonging to the house, and threw down his bridle on the same place. After taking something to drink with the landlord he said, " You have got my saddle."---" No." " I left it under the verandah, where I have just placed my bridle." On going out to show the spot, the bridle also had disappeared: both stolen. A good saddle and bridle at that ti...
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Pages 190
Dimensions: Length: 9.02" Width: 5.98" Height: 0.43"
Weight: 0.63 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 14, 2009
ISBN 0217429688
EAN 9780217429689
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