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Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Portrait Frontispiece

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Rabbit and Thistle vii

Terra Firma 1

Teneriffe 7

The Sports 8

The Captain 11

Ascension 17

Crossing the Line. Why, don’t you see it? 19

The Baby Hippopotamus at Play 21

Burying the Dead Horse 23

The Classic Dolphin 28

A Colonial Parson 31

In the Tropics 40

Gold Mine 49

A Big Tree 52

On the Black Spur 56

The Lyre Bird 59

The Doctor Contemplates—a Poem 64

Avoca 67

St. Mary’s 68

Falmouth Hotel 69

Burial Place 70

Summit of Mount Wellington 76

View in Hobart Gardens 77

Our Waiter 79

Sydney Harbour 80

Cottage at Mount Victoria 86

Weatherboard Falls 87

Descent to Hartley Vale 88

The Laughing Jackass 90

The Author Sketching 91

A Bullock-Team 94

A Bush Hut 95

An Up-country Town 98

The Platypus 112

A Fijian 117

The King’s Sister 127

The Chinaman 142

Little Min-ne 143

Seal Rocks, San Francisco 145

The last of “Mister” 146

The Eucalyptus 148

Salt Lake 155

Monument Rock 158

The Devil’s Slide 159

Under the Falls, Niagara 163

The Pallisades, Hudson River 166

John Scales, Justice of the Peace 168

A Dragoman 182

A Donkey Boy 184

The “Orient” 186

The Schoolmaster “abroad” 189

A “Peep” 190

“Bery Cheap, Sah!” 191

The Mosque of Sultan Hassan 193

Ascending the Great Pyramid 197

View on the Nile 198

The Sphinx 199

A Wash and a Shave 201

The Serapeum, Sakkara 204

Bas-relief, Tomb of Tih 206

A Camelcade 208

Prayers in the Desert 209

A Runner, or Sais 212

In Shubra Avenue 214

Water Carriers 215

The Tombs of the Khalifs 218

A Street in Bûlak 219

A Holy Fakir 222

A Wrecked Ship of the Desert 223

Au Revoir! 225

In the Suez Canal 226

A Feather Merchant 227

Cetewayo Disguised as a Gentleman 236

Adenese Women 240

A Familiar Face 261

The End 268

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