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Title: A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, William Webb, 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Joseph, Mo., Hardman press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r acres and is reached by steam ferry from thecentral business part of Sydney in ten minutes. Theresidence and grounds face south and east and graduallyrise to about fifty feet above sea level, with a private swim-ming pool and boat landing at the waters edge. Twolandscape gardeners are continually employed to keep thegrounds, flow^ers, shrubbery and grass plots in the mostperfect order; being a semi-tropical climate, the whole placehas the appearance of perpetual Spring; this is only one ofa thousand such homes. We were royally treated while inSydney by many of our newly-made Australian friends.One of them took us for a half days excursion in his smallsteam yacht, which enabled us to get a birds-eye view ofthis beautiful harbor and its enchanting shores. Sydney has several very fine lines of steam ferry boats,which all start from Circular Quay, and all street railwaysstart from the same place, in the heart of the businessdistrict, and from this point one can reach any part of this 91
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great harbor very quickly. We counted se\en largeBritish Men-of-War, lying at anchor, while the ocean linersand freight steamers were many times too numerous tocount. This harbor with its great shipping facilities, is whathas built up this great city, and with the greatest islandcontinent behind it, which has only just begun to expand,there is not the slightest doubt of the continued prosperityof Sydney. There is one unpleasant thing about thisharbor; its waters are infested by sharks, which cause thedeath of several persons each year. Bathing, except withinfenced enclosures, is not safe; some time ago, while apleasure party were out in a yacht, a lady put her handover the side of the boat in the water, and the hand wassnapped off by a shark. They have a fine training ship here for boys, betweenten and eighteen years of age, who have been arrested formisdemeanors. We visited this ship and were muchpleased at the appearance of the boys—three hundred andseventy-eight in number, and no

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