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Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
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
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MAID-SERVANT OFF DUTY. ARTESIAN WELLS. 267 Ill speak to my wife about it, and rather than lose the chance ofengaging you, Ive no doubt she would be willing to drown two ofthem. Our N^ew Zealand friend laughed heartily over the story, andbefore he left us he had evidently forgotten his annoyance at the cir-cumstance that brought him to the hotel. He added that the storywould not be inappropriate to Christchurch, but he feared all his neigh-bors would not appreciate the joke. All along this part of the coast water is obtained by artesian wellsat about eighty feet from the surface. Christchurch has hundreds ofsuch wells, and the supply of water never fails; they reminded usof the wells in the sands of Long Island, and along the Atlantic coastof the United States all the w^ay to Florida.
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GARDENING IN THE PARK. 268 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. CHAPTER XII. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CANTERBURY DISTRICT.—VISIT TO A SHEEP-STATION.—HOW THE SHEEP-BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED.—THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.—IRRIGATION IN NEW ZEALAND. —SHEEP LOST IN SNOW-STORMS. — THE SHEEP-RAISERS ENEMIES.—DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY PARROTS.—THE RABBIT PEST.—HOW RABBITS ARE EXTERMINATED.—VISIT TO A WHEAT - FARM. — WHEATSTATISTICS. — IMPROVED MACHINERY.—THE SPARROW PEST.— TROUBLESOMEEXOTICS.—WATER-CRESS, DAISIES, AND SWEETBRIER.—AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.—MOUNT COOK.—FIRST ASCENT.—PERILOUS CLIMBING.—GLACIERS AND LAKES.—THE SOUTHERN ALPS.—DUNEDIN.—OTAGO GOLD-FIELDS.—INVERCARGILL.—LAKE WAKATIPU.—MINING AT QUEENSTOWN. f^HE provincial district of Canterbury is both an agricultural and a -L pastoral country, part of it being well adapted to grain - growing, and the rest to grazing. Its staple productions are grain and wool, and it ships large quantities ofboth to E

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  • bookyear:1889
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Knox__Thomas_Wallace__1835_1896
  • bookauthor:Harper___Brothers__pbl
  • booksubject:Voyages_and_travels
  • booksubject:Adventure_and_adventurers
  • booksubject:Tutors_and_tutoring
  • booksubject:Friendship
  • booksubject:Sailing
  • booksubject:Sailors
  • booksubject:Animals
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Harper___Brothers
  • bookcontributor:School_of_Theology__Boston_University
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