Blacks and BushrangersFront matterReading editionChapter navigation24 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterBLACKS AND BUSHRANGERSPREFACE.Introductory materialChapter I · The New Forest—Sampson Stanley the gipsy—Mat and Tim—A New Forest sportsman—Braken Lodge.Chapter II · Squire Bell—Annie’s gift of a book—Shooting a New Forest deer—Felony—Chased by a keeper—Capture—Escape—Fight with a bloodhound.Chapter III · Mat bids farewell to the Forest—The Young Austral—Tim and Jumper on board.Chapter IV · Life on board the Young Austral—The wreck—A swim for life—Safe ashore.Chapter V · The island—The gigantic cockle-shell—Amongst the blacks—The Corroboree.Chapter VI · Wild honey—They find the wreck—The Thunderstick.Chapter VII · Spearing geese—Killing ducks with boomerangs—’Possum-hunting—How to make fire—The tribe shift camp—The Boorah—Mat and Tim’s journal.Chapter VIII · Gold—Hostile natives—Flight by night—The great battle—Clubs—Fists—New Forest wrestling—“Old Joe.”Chapter IX · After the battle—Burial rites—The Waigonda wish to make chiefs of the white men—Our “twins” leave with Dromoora and Terebare for the south.Chapter X · Burns’ station—The horse-breaker—Colonial “Blow”—Satan the First—Mat “collars” the buckjumper.Chapter XI · An official summons—Travelling in state—Brisbane—On board ship again—Triumphal entry into Sydney—In a church again—The lecture—Meeting old friends—Soft reflections.Chapter XII · Tim starts for the Darling Downs—French as spoken by Mrs. Bell—Parson Tabor—Leichardt’s grave—The French “professor”—Mat unmasks the “professor.”Chapter XIII · Tim’s unpleasant reception at Bulinda—The bushranger’s camp—The robbery—Annie kidnapped—Tim’s good Samaritans.Chapter XIV · Mat on the trail of the bushranger—Annie’s signal—Mat tracks the bushranger to his lair—The cave—Our hero as the black warrior once more—A fearful fight—Dromoora’s timely cry—Annie’s rescue—Blissful moments.Chapter XV · Magan’s armour—Safe at Bulinda Creek again—The professor’s last lesson on the island—Mat and Tim once more together—Tim convalescent.Chapter XVI · The Squire’s offer—Tim decides to go home—Our heroine’s advice to Mat—Our forester takes to gardening—The “new chum’s” difficulties and troubles.Chapter XVII · English Society v. Colonial—Music—The “new chum’s” letter—“Two’s company and three’s none”—Unpleasant reflections—Parson Tabor’s advice—Mrs. Bell shows that she has a “down” on our hero—The “Spider”—The “new chum” proves that he is “not such a fool as he looks”—Tim returns home.Chapter XVIII · Our hero visits the old Waigonda country once more—The overlanding—The Golden Gully—The last sight of Dromoora.Chapter XIX · Bulinda Creek once more—Mat again asks Tabor’s advice—The parson “on matrimony”—Annie’s little arbour.Chapter XX · Back in the old Forest—Jumper’s last home—Return of our hero and heroine for good and all to Bulinda Creek—Conclusion and farewell.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →BLACKS AND BUSHRANGERSAll chapters and sections (24)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsBLACKS AND BUSHRANGERSPREFACE.Opening pagesIntroductory materialChapters1234567891011121314151617181920Dromoora.◇BLACKS AND BUSHRANGERS →