INDEX.

Albatross, The 27 @115}

America (see also United States) 135–178

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 181–268

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) 3–39

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