LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

In the “Great White Continent” Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Crossing the Murray River 2
The giant tree ferns 3
Wheat going to market 6
Wool for half the world 6
On the Brisbane water front 7
The Brisbane River 7
Queensland sugar 14
Pineapples 14
Bottle trees 15
A settler’s home 18
The hill of gold and copper 19
The sapphire mines 19
Clearing off the scrub 22
How the farmers live 22
Down town in Sydney 23
At Bondi Beach 30
Airplane view of Sydney harbour 31
Manly Beach 31
Hauling the wool clip to market 38
Some champion Merinos 38
Winter sports on Mount Kosciusko 39
Skating amid the green 39
In the sheepfold 46
To a tea party on horseback 47
Home life on a sheep station 50
The sheep shearers 51
Sheep about to lose their wool 51
Home of a station manager 54
Boys who grow up on horseback 54
The boundary rider 55
Irrigating orchard 62
Rabbit fences 63
Packing rabbit skins for export 63
A city on the reclaimed lands 66
Breaking down the scrub 66
Rescuing cattle from the drought 67
How water is saved 67
“Boiling the billy” 70
Collins Street, Melbourne 71
At the race track 78
Melbourne city hall 78
The Parliament House 79
Alexandra Gardens 79
Logging in the eucalyptus forest 86
The Governor’s house at Perth 87
Moving the wheat crop 87
An artesian bore 94
Panning gold 95
The dry-blow process 98
A camel train 99
The sheep-shearers’ “smoker” 102
The leather workers 102
The drive across country 103
Immigrants landing 110
Girls learning to keep house 111
The grammar school at Melbourne 114
How some children get to school 115
Where farm wives go to school 115
Half-civilized aborigines 118
The aborigines of the wilds 119
Turkey shooting by airplane 126
Kangaroo 127
The Australian opossum 130
Mother bear and her baby 131
In Sydney’s business district 134
Loading wheat for export 134
American machinery in Australian mines 135
Motor picnics in American cars 135
The stripper harvester 142
An Illinois harvester in Australia 142
In Hobart, Tasmania 143
Logging on a Tasmanian river 146
Hobart and Derwent River 147
Orchards of the “Apple Isle” 147
Thursday Island 150
Tattooed South Sea Island belles 150
Opening the pearl oyster 151
South Sea Islander 158
A village house 159
A South Sea warrior 162
On the shores of the Tasman Sea 163
Wellington harbour 163
A New Zealand forest 170
The beautiful coast of South Island 171
Potential water power 178
A New Zealand farm 179
The crater of Mount Tarawera 179
Developing new crops 182
A settler’s home site 183
A Maori belle 190
Women hop pickers 191
Beach at Napier 198
The great Tasman glacier 199
Christmas roses 206
The wheat harvest 206
The New Zealander’s favourite sport 207
Sheep in a turnip field 214
A private railroad 215
At the Yellowstone of New Zealand 222
Wairoa geyser 223
The hot sulphur pit of White Island 226
Maori house at Lake Taupo 226
Poi dance 227
Natural fireless cookers 227
Bathers in the hot pools 230
The Maori haka 231
Grading butter for export 238
The dying art of tattooing 239
A New Zealand harbour 242
The rabbit trappers’ catch 242
Mount Egmont 243
The totara tree 246
On Mount Cook 247
Kauri gum mines 254
New Zealand flax 255
Farming with tractor and gang ploughs 258
A dairy herd 259
London’s mutton chops 259
Gathering coconuts 262
Tree nursery on a rubber plantation 263
Savaii in eruption 270
Native church at Apia 271
Native mission school 271
A Samoan beauty 274
Copra ready for shipment 275