| Description |
xii, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Windomel -- Voyage out -- Tasmania (1849) -- Bagdad -- Mt Wellington -- Off to California -- Tahiti and Eimeo -- Raiatea and Samoa -- Caroline Island -- Honolulu -- San Francisco (1850) -- Norfolk Island -- Lakes of Tasmania -- Launceston Races -- The Turf -- Melbourne (1851) -- The Turon (1851) -- Sydney banking life (1852) -- Overlanding (1853) -- Paika and the "Mallee" -- Riverina -- From Melbourne to Sydney -- An Australian in London -- Site and topography of Brisbane -- Early journeys to the Burnett and Darling Downs -- General reminiscences of Sydney, Melbourne and Moreton Bay -- Holt's election, and other events of 1856 -- Other reminiscences of Queensland -- "Forty years ago": memories or Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Hobart -- The Delpard family in Sydney -- With cattle to Cape York peninsula -- Sinbad's Valley -- Australian folk lore -- Aladdin's opals -- What the "wild waves were saying" -- The Brisbane botanic gardens -- The genius of Australia -- Australian shells and butterflies -- "Sun-chips" -- Australian gums, oils, timbers, &c -- The cascade of the Barron River -- About clubs -- The birth of Queensland -- Queensland champion race of 1861 -- The Duke of Edinburgh in Brisbane -- "Yuletide" in Sydney -- Lord Harris in Sydney -- The Princes' visit (1881) -- International cricket (Ivo Bligh) 1883 -- Krakatoa River 50 years ago -- A chapter on sentiment -- About sickness -- Ode to a piccaninny -- A Brisbane reverie -- The Brisbane Cup -- White waistcoats -- Mosquito baiting -- Laycock and Beach -- Good old times -- Usury -- The Melbourne Cup -- "Gothenburg" wreck -- On "love" -- On education -- Our boys -- Good and evil -- Wholesale and retail -- Feminine prose -- Captain Clinch, of the "Swordfish" -- Milton in 1875 -- Petrie's Bight (1876) -- "1875" -- "Fuimus" -- South Sea murder -- Brisbane in 1822 -- "Bridget" -- The world's climates |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Library's Whelan copy is inscribed in ink, ""To A. Blix Esq. with the compliments of the authors wife "Maureen" July 1904" and "Presented to the 'Whelan Collection' National Library, Canberra. The author's wife was a sister of the first prime minister. Arthur Blix Oct 1943". ANL |
| Subject |
Bartley, Nehemiah.
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Australia -- History -- 1851-1891
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Australia -- Collectibles.
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Australia -- Description and travel.
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Oceania -- Description and travel.
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Polynesia -- Description and travel.
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| LC no. |
11912147 |
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