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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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them, and it was awonder that none of the men had their necks broken in the chase. Ac-cidents do happen, however, and sometimes they are fatal; one occurredat this very place a few months ago, a stockman being killed by hishorse fallino: and then rolling- over him. He was a graduate of Cam-bridge College, in England, the son of a gentleman of good position butsmall fortune, and had come to Australia to make his way in the world. In speaking of this incident Mr. Watson said that a considerableproportion of the stockmen in Australia were men of education and ofgood families, who had come to the new country because it affordedbetter means of advancement than they could hope for at home. It isno disgrace in Australia for a man to work with his hands for an hon-est living, any more than it is in the new States and Territories of the SCENES OF QUEENSLAND LIFE. 377 United. States. I heard a story ofan ex-officer of a crack regimentof dragoons who cut wood nearBrisbane, loaded it on a waffon
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have recei\ed it.In the even in 2: ofthe same day hedined at a for-mal dinner at tlievery house where he haddelivered the ^^ood, and mconsequence of his formerrank in the army he escort-ed the hostess to the table. The Premier of one of the colonies—the Premier is equivalent toour Secretary of State—worked on the public roads when he first cameto Australia, and nobody thinks the worse of him for it; the Minister MCSTERIXG CATTLE. 378 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. of Public Instruction in another colony drove a coal-cart in Sydney, andthere are dozens of men of prominence who have been shepherds, cattle-drivers, carpenters, bricklayers, and the like. Australia seems to havetaken a leaf out of the history of the United States, and been greatly

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