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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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^ degrees, but it risesoccasionally to a hundred and more. AVe found a secluded pool, andtook a bath there ; after the bath we greatly enjoyed a luscious melonwhich our host brought us. It is a curious sensation to stand on a hill and look over a consid-erable area of country which may easily be imagined to be undergoinga cooking process from one end to the other. Jets of steam rise fromthe ground in a great many places ; some of them continuously, others
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HOTEL LIFE AT THE HOT LAKES. in quick or slow jets, and with intervals of a second or so, or perhapsfractions of a second, and others Avith dignified intervals of several min-utes. Some of the geysers threw up columns of water fifteen or twentyfeet in height; but, on the whole, they were less interesting than thegeysers of Yellowstone Park in America. At one place the sulphurfumes were so stifling that it was next to impossible to look into theholes in the ground, and only possible by holding the nose firmly andlooking while the breath was retained.15 226 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. And these sulphur fumes came very near causing a horrible deathto Fred. We were among the boiling springs, where the greatest pre-caution was necessary to avoid falling into the pools, as they were onlyshort distances apart, sometimes less than a foot. Our guide had calledattention to one of the geyser holes, where the water at the bottom wasboiling furiously. Fred Avas looking into it, when suddenl

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