THE END.

INDEX.

Albatross, The

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America (see also United States)

135178

America—Journey across from San Francisco

147

   Albany

164

   — Schools at

165

   Alkali Plains, The

155

   American Language

165

   André, Major

167

   Appetising Mottoes and Sentiments

160

   Arnold, General

167

   Bill of Fare, A Curious

160

   Blue Gum, The (illus)

148

   Brigham Young’s Dominions

155

   Bright, John

151

   Boats

165

   Bogus Ticket Sellers, Beware of

157

   Buildings, Block of, Removed Bodily

161

   Bull Frogs

149

   Buttes, The

158

   Cañons

152, 157

   Cape Horn

152

   Catskill Mountains

165

   Chicago

160, 161

   — Fires in

161

   — Streets in, Equal to Best in London

161

   — Timber Houses still Numerous

161

   — Water Supply for

161

   Churches, Opposition

167

   Corinné

155

   Corn over Ten Feet High

147

   — without Manure

147

   Country like a Park

147

   Cow-Catcher, The

154

   Crash, A Tremendous

152

   Descent of 8,000 feet

159

   Detroit

162

   Devil’s Slide, The (illus)

159

   Dining Car, A Well-appointed

160

   Dollar will Go a Long Way

168

   Elevation, Greatest Attained

152

   English Gold Refused

157

   Eschscholtzias growing wild

147

   Eucalyptus, The (illus)

148

   Falls River

164

   Fields Hundreds of Acres in extent

147

   Fires in Chicago

161

   Flowers, Immense patches of

147

   Free Country

169

   Gold-Diggings reworked by Chinese

149

   — Track through

148

   Gum Tree, The (illus)

148

   Hotel, The Grand Pacific, Chicago

162

   Hudson River

165, 167

   Identification a Difficult Task

161

   I guess I’ll take your Gold

157

   Indians, Dreadful looking

149

   — on the War-Path

152

   John Scales, Justice of the Peace (illus)

168

   Justice, A Dealer in

168

   Lake Ontario

164

   Language, American

164

   Life on the Road, A New Feature of

161

   Lupins growing wild

147

   Marigolds, Patches of

147

   Military Academy, West Point

167

   Mineral Wealth, Untold

148

   Money-Lender complains

148

   Monument Rock (illus)

158

   Mormon Advice

154

   — Tabernacle Visited

157

   — Wives lack Cordiality

156

   Narrow Escape

151

   Night Attack on Indians

153

   Ogden

156, 157

   Omaha

160

   Pacific Railroad, A Single Track

151

   Pallisades, The, Hudson River (illus)

166

   Passport Found Useful

161

   Pine Forests

149

   Poultry Secured by the Leg

169

   Pullman Train, Life on Board

149

   Railway Covered with Sheds

152

   — on Trestles

157

   — Open to Prairie

154

   — Ride, a splendid one

177

   Red Sandstone Rocks

158

   Ride, A Long (Omaha to Chicago)

160

   Rip van Winkle

165

   River Boats

165

   — Hudson

165, 167

   Rome

164

   Sacramento Valley

147

   Saints, Cruel Treatment by the

153

   Salt Lake City Beautifully Situated

156

   — (illus)

155

   Sambo said “No Sah!”

159

   Schools, National, at Albany

165

   Snow Mountains

149

   — Travelling through

157

   Soil Twenty Feet Deep

147

   Steamers on the Rivers

165

   Streets in Chicago Equal to Best in London

161

   Sulphur Spring

157

   Syracuse

164

   Taurus Meets the Train

154

   Tennyson Claimed as an American Author

165

   Timber Houses still Numerous in Chicago

161

   Train, The Last Over

152

   — The, Met by Taurus

154

   Trapper’s Story, The

153

   Turning Point between East and West

152

   Utica

164

   Water Supply for Chicago

161

   West Point, on the Hudson

167

   Witches, The

158

American Grievance

128

— Passengers from Honolulu

127

Americans not good Sailors

127

Ascension, Island of (illus)

17

Auckland

115

Avoca (illus)

67

   Woolgrowers

67

Australian Colonies (see also Melbourne, Sydney, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales)

101

   Agricultural Labour, A Fine Field for

111

   Artisans, Skilled

110

   Australia, People of, Described

112

   — Young

111

   Climate Exhausting

110

   Ornithorhynchus paradoxus (illus)

112

   Drought, A Ten Months’

113

   Education Amply Provided for

111

   Emigrate, Who should

110

   Free Trade

101

   Labour Market, State of

101

   — Unskilled, A Fine Field for

111

   Mining Machinery, Perfection of

107

   Platypus, The Duck-billed (illus)

112

   Population

120

   — Surplus, Great Field for

110

   Postal Arrangements

111

   Protection

101

   Railways

111

   Rent of Houses Enormously Dear

110

   Schools, First-rate

111

   Telegraphs

111

   Wages Higher, but Most Things Dearer, than in England

110

Baby Hippopotamus at Play (illus)

21

Ballarat

48

   Botanical Gardens

49

   Gold Mine

48

   — (illus)

49

   — Smallness of

49

   Gold Raised

49

   Lake Wendouree

49

Bananas

127

Bay of Biscay

5

Betting on Board Ship

26

Boat in a Squall off Plymouth

2

Brandy or Whisky?

131

Brummagem Shams, where manufactured

13

Burial at Sea

131

Burying the Dead Horse (illus)

21

Campbell Town

74

   Our Waiter at (illus)

79

Canada

162

   American Customs Officer’s Equipment

164

   Clifton House, Niagara

162

   Desecration, Ruthless

163

   Green Fields like those at Home

162

   Great Western Railway

162

   London

162

   Niagara, Impressions of

164

   Paris

162

   Photographers

163

   Salary, Must Raise, I Guess

164

   Suspension Bridge at Niagara, Crossing

164

Centipedes, A Plague of

127

Chair, Taking the

129

Coral Reefs

116, 118

Day Dropped

119

Day Gained

119

Duel, Rumours of

121

Educated in Four Colleges

130

Egypt

181268

   Abaid

197

   Abbaseyeh Palace

216

   Abbas Pasha

216

   Abraham or Isaac, Old Fellow like

191

   Aden, a Dreadful Place

239

   — Importance of

239

   Adenese Women (illus)

240

   Agricultural Operations

223

   Agriculture à la Adam

188

   Alexandria

260

   — in Ruins

264

   — not Bombarded

265

   — the Forts after Bombardment

262

   Anglo-Indians

266

   Apis Mausoleum, The

203

   Arab, A Discerning

232

   — An, Hanged

228

   — School in Syria

211

   Arabi, Appointed Under Secretary of War

256

   — at Colombo

238

   — Bey

255

   — Causes Numerous Arrests

257

   — Erects New Earth-works

258

   — How he Recruited his Army

258

   — Made Pasha

257

   — Military Adventurer

258

   — Moved in a singular way

239

   — Principal Figure in Outbreaks

256

   — Visit to

238

   Arabi’s Personal Appearance

239

   Arabs, Bedouin

183

   — How Kept in Order

181

   — Picturesque Party of

181

   Au Revoir (illus)

225

   Backsheesh

185, 190, 195, 197, 198, 207, 210, 218, 224, 228, 241, 243

   — not demanded

210

   Balah, Lake of

245, 248

   Bazaars, In the

190

   Bedrashên

201

   Beggars

195

   Bellows, not made in Birmingham

191

   Bery cheap, sah! (illus)

191

   Bethshemish (Heliopolis)

220

   Biblical Allusions, How to Understand

185

   Biograph, A Graphic

206

   Bitter Lakes, The, Identified with Marah

246

   — Saltness of

247

   Black Guard, A

242

   Blacking a Boy’s Bare Feet

186

   Blue Jackets, Look at our de-ah

237

   Blue Ribbon Army

233

   Boat or Dahabieh

215

   Boats, How Propelled

181

   Bohemiennes

228

   Bonaparte, Attempts to Reopen Suez Canal

245

   Bond-holders, Foreign

254

   Bridal Party, A

192

   Brindisi

267

   British Canal Shares Profitable

253

   — Mission, Schools at

211

   Bûlak, A Street in (illus)

219

   — Suburb of Cairo

220

   Bull, The Sacred

203

   Burying-ground

202

   Cairo

187, 188, 242

   — Sanitary Condition of, Shocking

244

   — Trades of

188

   — Visit to, by Train

184

   Camelcade, A (illus)

208

   Camelcades

207

   Camels, Strings of

207

   Carriages, Ladies’

212

   Casinos

228

   Cemetery, An Ancient

202

   Cetewayo, alias The Carrib

229, 234

   — Disguised as a Gentleman (illus)

235, 236

   Cheops, Great Pyramid of

197

   Children, Naked

208

   Christian, I am a

218

   Citadel, The

194

   City, A great

202

   Civ-il, One must be

236

   Colombo

238

   Colonels, The, Make further Demands

256

   Concert, A Pleasant, Looked Forward to

228

   Cook and Son

241

   — Name of, a Talisman

241

   Coptic Guide offered a Commission

190

   Coral Necklaces

227

   Cotter, Lieutenant

229

   Court Martial, Irregular

257

   Crocodile

206

   — A dead

216

   — Lake

248

   Crowd, A Motley

181

   Custom-house Examination

182

   — occupied by English Artillerymen

227, 229

   Dahabieh or Nile boat

215

   Dancers and Howlers

210

   Dervishes, The, Dancing and Howling

209

   — The, Supported by Government Endowment

210

   Desert, Prayers in the (illus)

209

   Devils, Familiar

195

   Donkey Boy, An Egyptian (illus)

184

   — My Donkey, good sah

184

   Donkey Ride

183

   — across the Nile

215

   Donkeys for Nine

183

   — Homeward Bound

216

   — Names of

183

   — Universal Use of

214

   Dragoman (illus)

182

   Drive to Heliopolis

216

   Dual Control, The

254

   Dutch Hotel occupied by Royal Marines

228

   Egg-hatching Establishment

194

   Eggs, she only steals the Eggs now

212

   Egypt, British Occupation of, how Beneficial

244

   — by whom Disliked

244

   Egyptian Character, Saddest Side of

220

   — People, Requirements of

255

   Electric Light, The,

231

   El Guisr, The Cutting of

248

   Embroidery

190

   End, The (illus)

268

   Englishman perfidious

240

   English Representation on Board of Management of Suez Canal not large enough

252

   Ethiopia shall yet Stretch Forth her Hand

185

   European Buildings, Few

183

   Exclusiveness, British

242

   Excursion, A delightful

208

   Ezbekiyeh Public Gardens

244

   Face, A Familiar (illus)

261

   Fair-day, A

222

   Fakir, A Holy (illus)

220, 222

   Fehmi Pasha

239

   Fellaheen, The, ground down

259

   Fort Aïda

263

   — Meks

263, 265

   — Gemileh

229

   French, A Nation of Retailers

252

   — Fleet, The, Withdraws

258

   — The, outwitted

240

   Fresh-water Canal completed

246

   Friday, the Mohammedan Sabbath

209

   Gamblers on Board Ship

235

   Gentlemen of the Long Robe

227

   Gizeh, Pyramids of

195

   — Station

201

   Goshen, Land of

244

   — Land of, preferred

244

   Governor, A ’cute

239

   Graphic Biograph, A

206

   Graveyard at Tel-el-Kebir

243

   Greek Money-changer

226

   Gun Hill

263

   Hassan

182, 184, 241

   — Sultan

192

   — Disguised as a Pilgrim

192

   — How he Recovered his Throne

194

   Heliopolis (Bethshemish)

220

   — Drive to

216

   Hens, Laziness of

194

   Hippopotamus

206

   Homes, Everlasting

207

   Home to Vote

225

   Hostelries

207

   Hotel Abbat

260

   Howlers and Dancers

210

   Insects something Maddening

230

   Irrigation

223

   — Method of, Described

188

   Ismailïa

186, 248

   Jewellers

191

   — Weighing for

191

   Joseph and Mary’s Tree

218

   Kantara

247

   Khalifs, The Tombs of the (illus)

218

   Khedive’s Gardens, The

215

   Khedive, The

208, 212

   — The, Compelled to submit

255

   Koran, The, in Competition with Threepenny Pieces

189

   Labour, Forced, a Painful Sight

187

   Lady, The Last Unmarried

230

   Lake Menzaleh

230, 247

   — Timsah

248

   Lakes, The Bitter

245, 249

   Law of Liquidation

254

   Lepère’s Theory

245

   — Proved Incorrect

245

   Lesseps, M., Detained at Alexandria

245

   — Matures his Theory

246

   L’etat, c’est moi

259

   Leviathan, Job’s Reference to

207

   Lucullus

259

   Lily, Painting the

186

   Luggage, A Lady’s

184

   — How Treated

181

   Mameluke Dynasty, The Last of

218

   Mamelukes, Massacre of

194

   Manufacturing Quarter

191

   Mariette exhumes the Serapeum

203

   Marines

229

   — as Police

230

   Mausoleum, The Apis

203

   Mecca Pilgrims, Rendezvous of

216

   Mediterranean, The

267

   — Waters of, Flow into Bitter Lakes

246, 248

   Member, Once a, always a Member

234

   Memphis

202

   — Ancient, Site of

201

   — Little more than a Name

202

   Menzaleh, Lake of

245

   Military Riot

255

   Mitrahineh (site of Ancient Memphis)

201

   Mohammed Ali, Mosque of

194

   Money-Changers’ Liberality

227

   Monument, Most Ancient in the World

202

   Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Visit to

194

   — The, of Sultan Hassan (illus)

193

   Mother, Son thrashes her only once a month

212

   Mud, Great Difficulty in Making Canal

230

   Museum, The National, for Egyptian Antiquities

222

   Mutinous Conduct

256

   Naval Force sent by France and England

257

   — Arrival at Alexandria

257

   Nap on Deck

234

   Necropolis, Ancient

202

   Nile-boat, A

216

   Nile, The

187

   — Valley of

188

   — View on the (illus)

198

   Nobleman, The Languishing

184

   Noph (Memphis)

202

   Nubians Reported to be Excellent Soldiers

229

   Obelisk, The Oldest in Egypt

218

   Octroi, or Town Tax

216

   On (Heliopolis)

220

   Orgies, Pious

210

   Orient, The Steamship (illus)

186

   — a Magnificent Steamship

181

   Orphans, Venerable

224

   Palmerston, Lord, thwarts Lesseps

246

   Palms, Oranges, and Lemons

218

   Patriarchal Group, A

197

   Pebbles as Mementoes of Tel-el-Kebir

243

   Peep, A (illus)

190

   Penny, New, Refused

185

   People, Vast Numbers with Nothing to do

185

   Perim, Island of, how acquired

239

   Pious Orgies

210

   Police, The, Armed with Long Spikes

216

   Port Saïd

230, 247

   — a Dreadful Place to Live in

230

   — Harbour

231

   — Lighthouse

231

   — Railway wanted to

232

   Power vested in Military Party

257

   Prayers in the Desert (illus)

209

   Predictions, Ill-founded

249

   President, The, of Red Ribbon Army

235

   Pyramid, Ascending the Great (illus)

196

   — The great Step

202

   — The Oldest

202

   Pyramids, Road to

187

   — The

216

   — The, First View of

187

   Quarantine

268

   Ramleh

263

   Ramses II, Statue of

202

   Ras-el-Tin

261

   Red Tape

250

   — Ribbon Army

233

   Rendezvous of Mecca Pilgrims

216

   Revoir, Au (illus)

225

   Riot and Massacre of Europeans

257

   Rotten Row of Cairo, The

212

   Runners or Saïs, The (illus)

212, 212

   Sabbath, the Mohammedan

209

   Safes, obviously of English Manufacture

191

   Saïs, The

212

   Sacred Bull, Burying-place of

203

   Sakkara, To

201

   Sand, A good Preservative

205

   Sarcophagus, A huge

203

   School, An Arab, in Syria

211

   — Interrupted

189

   Schoolmaster’s, A, Disappointment

211

   Schoolmaster, The, Abroad (illus)

189

   — The, asks for Backsheesh

190

   Schools, Miss Whateley’s

211

   Sculpture, Life-like

222

   Selim, Sultan

218

   Serapeum, The (illus)

203, 204

   Seymour, Admiral, Opens Fire on Forts

258

   Shalouf

248

   Shave, A, and a Wash (illus)

199, 199

   Ship of the Desert, A Wrecked

223

   Shoeblacks

186

   Shops Tiny

182

   Shubra Avenue, In (illus)

214

   — The

212

   Simon Stylites

220

   Soldier, British, in Egypt

242

   Soldiers, English, quite at home

244

   — glad to have Newspapers

230

   Sphinx, The

216

   — The (illus)

199

   Spider, The

233, 234, 235

   Spider’s Web, The

234

   Statue, A, Four Thousand Years old

222

   Stick, The Heaven-sent

198

   Story-teller, A

222

   Storytellers, Professional, at Cairo

188

   Strabo, on the Serapeum

203

   Street in Bûlak (illus)

219

   Streets of Suez Narrow

182

   Suez

241, 248

   — Arrive off

181

   Suez Canal, A new Canal wanted

252

   — British Traffic through

247

   — Cost of Constructing

247

   — Does not silt up

249

   — Embankments of

247

   — Erroneous Impressions

249

   — Festivities on Opening

247

   — First Undertaken by Pharaoh Necho

244

   — French Officials inferior in capacity

250

   — French short-sighted in Business Matters

252

   — In the (illus)

226

   — Lesseps’ Monopoly

252

   — Lesseps, M. de

250

   — Mercantile Importance of

247

   — Necessity of increased accommodation

250

   — Operations begun

246

   — Palmerston, Lord, Obstinacy of

250

   — Restrictions Absurd

251

   — Ships not allowed to move after Sun-down

251

   — Sinuosities of

249

   — Steamers under perfect control

250

   — Suggestion, A

253

   — How to deal with Profit

253

   — The

244

   Suez Hotel

182, 242

   — Streets of, Narrow

182

   Sultan, Selim

218

   Tel-el-Kebir

242, 243

   Temple, Underground

201

   Tih, The Tomb of

205

   Timsah, Lake, Lord Wolseley’s base of operations

248

   Tomb of Tih (illus)

205, 206

   Tombs of the Khalifs (illus)

218

   Torture, A Novel Instrument of

220

   Town Tax, The, or the Octroi

216

   Treasures, Buried

201

   Tree, The Virgin’s

218

   Umbrellas, A New Use for

181

   Villages, Dreadful Mud

207

   Virgin’s Tree, The

218

   Wash, A, and a Shave (illus)

199, 201

   Wash Basin, An Impromptu

229

   Washing Hands, A Primitive Mode of

199

   Water-carriers (illus)

215

   Weigher for the Trade

192

   Whateley’s, Miss, Schools

211

   What lack ye?

226

   Wild Fowl Shooting, Good

230

   Words which Broke no Bones

182

   Zagazig

187

Equator, Heat at

24

Faces too Dark to be Seen

122

Falmouth

63

   Beach and Sands

71

   Burial-place (illus)

70

   Cockney Sportsman

71

   Der Dichter Spricht

65

   Epping Forest

67

   Hotel (illus)

69

   Land of Snakes

64

   Magpies

63

   River Esk

64

   Stoney Creek

64

Fernshaw

53

   Hard Fare

53

   Pioneering

53

Fiji Children ask for More

117

   — Islands

116

   — Native of (illus)

117

Fingal

67

Fire Brigade Practice

119

Flying Fish

27

Free Trade

99

Gambling on Board Ship

26

Golden Gate, The

131

Gum Trees, A Forest of

51

— (illus)

52, 53

Habits of Islanders acquired

128

Healesville

51

   A Soafler

51

   Hotel Accommodation

51, 56

   Remedy, a Sovereign

58

Hobart Town

77

   Fern Tree Valley

78

   Harvest in February

78

   Jericho to Jerusalem, via Bagdad

78

   New Norfolk

78

Homeward Bound

127

Honolulu, Arrival at

122

   Baby Sold for a Dollar

126

   Breakfast ordered Overnight

122

   Brownie, Quite a

125

   Chairs or Seats usually absent

126

   Children described

124

   Country very Poor

125

   Dragon-flies, numerous

124

   Dressmaking not a difficult Art

124

   Faces too Dark to be Seen

122

   Fire-flies

122

   Flowers of the most brilliant colours

124

   Grass green and beautiful

124

Hawaiian Islands, King of, Landlord of Hotel

123

   Healthiness of

127

   Heathen Chinee, his Tricks not in Vain

123

   Hotel

122

   Houses made chiefly of Rushes

126

   Islanders en fète

121

   Letters, Glad to be Rid of

125

   Library

125

   Museum

125

   Natives Dressed in Splendid Colours

124

   Parliament House

125

   Passenger Overboard

121

   Perfume of Tropical Flowers

122

   Pilots Decline to go out for Vessels

121

   Race fast dying out

125

   Ruth, the King’s Sister (illus)

127

   Servants gone Home

122

   Squatting on Ground Prevailing Custom

126

   Supper not to be had

122

   Temperature of

127

   Vegetation of

124

   Village, Native

126

   Villas Pretty and Numerous

126

   Waiters Celestial

123

   Water, Thoughts when Under

121

   Women’s Clothing, Scanty

124

   Women Stately Looking

124

Honolulu, Hotel at

122

Horse, Burying the Dead (illus)

21

Hotel Experiences

67

I guess the seat is dry now

129

Irish Bulls, where manufactured

13

Islanders en fète

121

Jefferson Brick, Junior

129

Jerra Jerra

96

Kandavu

115

Knife Trick, The

130

Life on Board Ship (see Ship—Life on Board)

339

Lyre Bird, The (illus)

59

Launceston

61

   Bees in Mourning

62

   Cicadas

61

   Cora Linn

63

   Pomona’s Temple

62

   Snakes

61

   Tamar River

61

   Tasmanian Hospitality

62

   Tonsorial Palace

62

   Tree Locusts

61

Marysville

56

   Stephenson Falls

56

Meal, a good square one preferred on Shore

121

Melbourne (see also Victoria)

39

   Berry Ministry, the

43

   Black Death at

40

   Black Spur Mountains

50

   — (illus)

56

   Building Trade at, Depressed, Results

102

   Bush, The

50

   Description of

41

   Education

42

   Exhibition at, why decided on

102

   Happy Land

46

   Hobson’s Bay

39, 80

   Hot Winds

47

   Natural History Museum

42

   Old Debts, a New Way to Pay

45

   Overland from Sydney

94, 100

   Parliamentary Procedure

43

   Parliament, Houses of

45

   — Payment of Members of

44

   Protection

102

   Revisited

79

   Roads

50

   Sanitary Arrangements, Defective

47

   Stage Coaches

50

   Streets wide and long

103

   Tall and Fat a street sweeper

48

   Tramways opposed by Cabmen

103

   Vineyards

50

   Yarra Yarra River

60

Mister

130

Moighty Dry

130

Native Dish called Poi

128

New South Wales (see also Sydney)

107

   Acres Many, Men Few

107

   Agricultural Machinery, Imported

108

   Artisans Attracted from Victoria

109

   Customs Revenue, Increase of

110

   Employment Abundant

107

   Exports, Increase of

110

   Free Trade Colony

107

   Hudson Bros, Limited

108

   Immigration Larger than in Victoria

109

   Imports, Increase of

110

   Imports in 1782 and 1881

109

   Industry, A Native, Created

108

   Labour, Increasing Demand for

109

   Machinery, Agricultural and Mining, Imports of

108

   — Mining, Demand for

107

   Manufacturing Concern, Largest in Colony

108

   Men Few, Acres Many

107

   Mining Machinery, Imports of

108

   — Machinery, Perfection of

107

   Policy Opposite to that of Victoria

107

   Population Attracted

109

   — Constantly Increasing

107

   — Increase of, in Ten Years

110

   — Room for More

109

   Prosperity, Evidences of

107

   Railway System, Vast and Expanding

107

   Sawmills, Steam, at Sydney

108

   Shipping

107

   — Development of

109

   — During last Thirty Years

109

   — Repairing Yards Removed from Victoria

109

   Timber, Native Better than Imported

108

   Trade, Import and Export

107

   Victoria Contrasted with

107

Oatlands

78

   The Gaol

79

Pacific Ocean belies its Name

115

Parson, The, Quite at Sea

16

   A Man of Peace now

30

   Colonists’ complain of

32

   Congregation, Secures a

16

   Drain Pipes, how they are made

30

   Mixes his Degrees

31

   Sermon on Geology

16

   Water Pumped from a Mine Twelve Miles Deep

16

Passenger, Death of

130

   — falls Overboard

121

Personal Difficulties

120

   — Favour, As a

131

Pilots Decline to go out for Vessels

121

Protection

39, 100

Salt Water good for the “Spin-ial Orgins”

7

San Francisco

131

   Baggage Master

147

   Business Activity

138

   — Men, Sharp

140

   Carriages, Hackney

144

   Character, Bad Better than None

139

   Chinaman, Am claimed as a

144

   Chinese Close Shavers

141

   Chinese Pigtails (illus)

142

   — Joss Houses Visited

143

   — Quarter Full of Interest

141

   — Numerous

140

   — Quarter Explored at Night

143

   — Theatre Visited

143

   — Washermen

137

   — Wedding

143

   Civilisation and Barbarism Face to Face

137

   Climate Delightful

145

   Correspondent, A Familiar

138

   Darwin would have been Delighted

142

   Dodge, A Favourite

139

   Earning a Cent anyhow

132

   English Fittings

137

   Entrance to Harbour Sighted

131

   Fire Brigades

144

   Flats and Sharps

139

   Golden Gate, The

131

   Governor, Qualifications for a State

140

   Habit, The National

138

   Hackney Carriages

144

   Heat and Dust Terrible

147

   I Guess you are Going to England

140

   Jarrett, A. J. C.

138

   John Chinaman

141

   Knife and Fork, only One at Meals

138

   Lady Doctors Numerous

140

   Luggage, Arrangements for, Excellent

147

   Min-ne, Little

141

   Mister, Last of (illus)

146

   My Wife is Dead

138

   Pacific Seal

145

   Palace Hotel

135, 137

   Police, Messenger from Chief of

139

   Sea-lions

145

   Seal Rocks (illus)

145

   Starching, a Fine Art

137

   Streets, Handsome

138

   Tang-y, A Chinese City

144

   Tang-ye, Proof of Celestial Origin

144

   Temperature

145

   Tobacco Chewing and its Consequences

138

   Tramways

144

   Volunteers

144

   Yosemite Valley

146

San Francisco, Voyage to

113, 132

Sharks

18, 30

   — don’t like Dark Skins

118

Ship-Life on board

3

   Albatross

27

   Bay of Biscay, Nor’-wester in

6

   Bazaar

34

   Betting

26, 38

   Blatant Beast, The, fires a Revolver

25

   Burying the Dead Horse

21

   Cabin’d, Cribb’d, Confin’d

3

   Cape Otway

38

   Captain not so fond of Progress as the Passengers

12

   Captains, why they are Tories

13

   Cat Chase

26

   Collisions at Sea

29

   Colonial Statesman beaten but not vanquished

39

   Concerts and Recitations

9

   Congregation, How to Secure a

16

   Consumptive Patients sent too late

5

   Cross-signalling

35

   Danite Band, The

33

   Death and Burial at Sea

15

   Dolphins

27

   Dolphin, the “Classic” (illus)

28

   Dramatic Performance

35

   Exhibition, Fine Art

35

   Fellow-passengers

4

   First Night on Board

3

   Flying Fish

27

   Gale off Cape Leeuwin

38

   Genial Captain (illus) advantageous

11

   German Lady, old but lively

19

   Hobson’s Bay

39

   Illness of Passengers

14

   Incident in Cornwall recalled

24

   Ixion goes mad

14

   Letters Home

29

   Life Friendships formed

4

   Love your Enemies

17

   Melbourne, Arrive at

39

   Music not always harmonious

10

   Night-walkers a nuisance

9

   Nor’-wester in the Bay of Biscay

6

   Parson Mixes his Degrees

31

   Pilot Fish

28

   Passengers paying their Footing

30

   — divided into Sets

3

   Peal of Hand-bells

16

   Portuguese Man-of-War

28

   Private Convict System

4

   Quoits a selfish Game

9

   Rolling Forties

38

   Scarlet Lady

20

   Sea-sickness, Cure for

6

   Sermon on Geology

16

   Sharks

18, 30

   Ship in full Sail

29

   Short and Stout

25

   Soup too Salt

19

   Sports (illus)

8

   Spurgeon’s Evangelist

32

   Squall near Madeira

12

   Steward’s Life a hard one

7

   Tall and Fat

25

   Tristan d’Acunha

38

   Tropical Heat

8, 24

   Tropical Phosphorescence

33

   Newspaper

10

   Water Pumped from Twelve Miles Deep

16

   Wild Spirits carry on

25

   Whale

30

Ship’s Doctors

120

Snakes

61, 64, 68, 72, 73, 74, 97

Spurgeon’s Evangelist

32

Steward, A Negro

115

St Mary’s (illus)

68

Supper, Too late for

123

Sunday at the Fiji Islands

116

Sydney (see also New South Wales)

80

   Ants

90

   Bail-up

89

   Bathurst

89

   Blue Mountains

84

   Botanical Gardens

82

   Bullock Team on Blue Mountains (illus)

94

   Bush Hut (illus)

95

   Bushrangers

89

   Cottage, Mount Victoria (illus)

86

   Education Act, The, Amended

92

   Excise Act

92

   Falls, The Weatherboard (illus)

87

   Great Goat Sucker, The

90

   Harbour (illus)

80

   Hartley Vale, Descent to (illus)

88

   Harvest on New Year’s Day

95

   Hotels, Primitive

84

   Laughing Jackass, The (illus)

90

   Lithgow

88

   Manufacturing Concern, Largest in Colony

107

   Oysters

83

   — on Trees

84

   Political Situation

92

   Saw Mills, Steam

108

   Sheep Runs

95

   Southerly Buster, A

83

Sydney to Melbourne Overland

94, 100

   Albury

98

   Ants

96

   Axles, Imported

108

   Bush, The

96

   Carriage Furniture, Imported

108

   Drought of Ten Months’ duration

113

   Endurance of Post-horses

98

   Euroa

100

   Free Trade at

108

   Germanton

96

   Hay, Price of

113

   Hudson Brothers (Limited)

108

   Industry, A Native, Created

108

   Jerra Jerra

96

   Kelly’s Exploits at Euroa

100

   Magpies, Large

96

   Railway Rolling Stock Manufacturers

108

   Rain, Downpour of

114

   River Murray

99

   Royal Mail

96

   Sheep, Loss of

114

   Shipping during last thirty years

109

   Sighing for Old England

97

   Snakes

97

   Springs, Imported

108

   Timber, Native Better than Imported

108

   Tommy, a youthful Driver

98

   Town, An Up-country (illus)

98

   Vineyards

99

   Wagga Wagga

95, 96

   Wheels, Imported

108

   Wodonga

99

Sydney to San Francisco

113, 132

Tasmania

75

   Farms large in size

75

   Good Roads

75

   Hawkers

76

   Mount Wellington (illus)

76

   River Derwent

75

   The Rabbit and the Thistle

75

Teneriffe (illus)

7

Travelling by Rail and Ship compared

1

Tree Ferns

52, 56

Tristan d’Acunha, Island of

36

Tropical Heat

8, 24

   — Phosphorescence

33

Tropics, In the (illus)

40

Turtles

18

United States

169

   Americans would Become our Competitors

176

   Artisans (American) not Better Off than British

176

   — Wages and Holidays

174

   Baggage Arrangements Convenient

171

   — Described

171

   Books Dear

170

   Cabmen Disgusted

171

   Cadgers, In England such Men would be Called

176

   Calicoes Consigned to England

173

   Charges Simply Monstrous

170

   Children without Shoes and Stockings

177

   Climate more Trying than that of England

174

   — of America Exhausting

176

   Competition Become Exceedingly Fierce

175

   Considerably Sold

178

   Corruption among Officials

169

   Cotton Mill Operatives from Germany, etc.

175

   Dear America

170

   Dinner, Charge for a Plain

170

   Engine, The Largest, in the World

172

   Exhibition, The Centennial, Philadelphia

169, 171

   Exports Limited by Protection

175

   Factory Operatives’ Wages Lower than in Lancashire

174

   Fair Trade Agitation

174

   Fortunes, Colossal, Built up under Protection

176

   Freedom for Tongue and Foot

177

   Free Trade and Wages

174

   — not an Unmixed Blessing

176

   — under, Wider Distribution of Material Comfort

176

   Holidays Fewer than in England

174

   Hours of Labour Longer than in England

176

   — Longer than in Lancashire

174

   Improvements (so-called) in Manufactures

172

   Labour, Honest, Avoided

176

   Liquor Traffic Presents Many Difficulties

177

   Living, Cost of, Higher than in England

174

   Loafers Numerous

176

   Negro Labour does not Flood the Markets

177

   Newspaper Inferior and Dear

170

   New York

169

   Officials, Corruption among

169

   Over-production

173

   Philadelphia

171

   Protection, An Argument for

173

   — and Wages

174

   — Doomed

175

   — Wages Steadily Declining under

176

   Railway Charges Moderate

171

   Rich, but Honest

169

   Slave Experiences

177

   Something Hot

178

   Steamboat Charges Moderate

171

   Sunday Traffic Perplexing

177

   Teetotal Lecture, A Regular

178

   Temperance Lecture, The First, they had Heard

178

   Tools, Inferior

172

   Wages Higher, but Balanced by Extra Cost of Living

176

   — Higher, not a Full Equivalent

176

   — Lower than in 1860

174

   — Steadily Declining under Protection

176

   — with Free Trade and Protection

174

Victoria (see also Melbourne)

101

   Agricultural Industries not Protected

105

   — Heavily Taxed

105

   Artisans Attracted to New South Wales

109

   Books, Can Produce Her Own

104

   Cabby Overrides the Tramway

103

   Country Districts Sparsely Populated

101

   Customs, Revenue, Stationary

110

   Depression of Building Trade at Melbourne

102

   Dog Subsisting on His Own Tail

102

   Duty on Imports Demanded

103

   Exhibition at Melbourne why Decided on

102

   Exports, Increase of

110

   Fiscal Policy, Vicious

105

   Food, Taxation of, not Permitted

105

   Free Trade—the Argus

104

   — for Raw Materials

103

   Government, Quite Right to Cheat the

106

   Immigration, Grants in Aid of

105

   Imported Manufactures Heavily Taxed

101

   Imports, Increase of

110

   Laws, Evasion of, by Protectionists

106

   Locomotives Costly

104

   — Required

104

   Manufacturer’s Profit not quite enough

104

   Manufacturers Require Larger Field

105

   Minerals, Home Demand for, Small

105

   — Mainly Exported

105

   Mining Industries not Protected

105

   — Machinery Heavily Taxed

105

   Native Industry, In Interests of

104

   Natural Resources Neglected

102

   New South Wales, Contrasted with

107

   Population Concentrated in Large Towns

101

   — Increase of, in Ten Years

110

   — (Manufacturing) Growing Faster than its Customers

102

   — not Retained

101

   — Larger, a Great Want

105

   — Room for Larger

105

   Prices sufficiently High

104

   Printed Books should be more Heavily Taxed

104

   Printing Materials, Suggestion to Tax

104

   Protected Industries for a Limited Time

103

   — Manufacturers not Happy

106

   Protection Demanded by Manufacturers

102

   — Effect on Money

106

   — in its most Pronounced Form

101

   Protectionist Newspapers

103

   Railway Stores

105

   Shipping—Repairing Yards Removed to New South Wales

109

   Tramways Opposed by Cabmen

103

   Tariff Revision Committee

103

   Working Classes Jealous of Competition

105

   Work, Legislature Expected to Supply

102

   Workpeople very Independent

107

Voyage, Author’s First, to Australia

5

Waterspout

119

Water, Thoughts when Under

121

White Squall, The

35

Yankee Journalist described

129

Yankee’s Inquiry

128