← Table of contents
The Boy Travellers in Australasia

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Reading edition

Mount Kosciusko, the Highest Peak in Australia

Map of Australasia

Map of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania

Royal School, Honolulu

The Physalia

The Island of Oahu

General View of Honolulu

In the Harbor of Honolulu

Queen's Hospital, Honolulu

Kealakeakua Bay, where Captain Cook was Killed

Mrs. Thurston, one of the Missionaries of 1820

Kawaiaho Church—First Native Church in Honolulu

Bethel Church

Native School-house in Honolulu

The Court-house in Honolulu

Native Gentleman of Honolulu

Hawaiian Poi-dealer

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Hawaiians at a Feast

Native Hay Peddler

Dress of Hawaiian Women

Ancient Idols of Hawaii

Grass House, Hawaiian Islands

Government Buildings, Honolulu

Hawaiian Dancing-girls

Map of the Sandwich Isles

Lahaina, Island of Maui

Women on Horseback, Honolulu

A Mountain Valley

Hawaiian Temple

Mountain Scene in the Sandwich Islands

Hilo

Surf-bathing at Hilo

The Volcano House

View of one of the Burning Lakes

View on a Lava Field

Hawaiian Warriors a Century ago

Chain of Extinct Volcanoes, Island of Kauai

Map of the Haleakala Crater

Kamehameha I., First King of the Sandwich Islands

Water-fall on Island of Kauai

Implements of Domestic Life

Hawaiian Pipe

Looking Seaward

The Owner of the Yacht

"Good-by!"

At Home on the "Pera"

Below Deck in the Tropics

On the Coast of the Marquesas

A View in Nookaheeva

Gattanewa's Portrait

Tattoo Marks on a Chief of the Marquesas

The Chief's Daughter

A European's Residence in the Marquesas

A Marquesan Village

Catholic Missionary

In a Gale near the Marquesas

Commodore Porter's Fleet in Nookaheeva Bay

Easter Island House and Children

Lava Rock Image, Easter Island

Easter Island Man

Easter Island Woman

Stone Tablet of Character Writing

Stone Platform for Images

Coast Scenery, Tahiti

Specimen of Coral

The Coral Worm

On the Shore of the Lagoon

A Cabin in the Suburbs

The Coast in a Storm

A French Bishop

View in an Orange-grove

Native Bamboo House, Tahiti

Natives of the Society Islands Fishing

A Sea-urchin

The Bottom of the Lagoon

Sea-anemone and Hermit-crab

Hermit-crab and Sea-shell

View among the Coral Branches

A Fish inside a Sea-slug

Coralline

Octopus, or Devil-fish

Stingaree, or Sea-devil

Garden of a Suburban Residence

Gathering Oranges for the Feast

Tamarind-tree at Point Venus

A Grove of Cocoanut-trees

Running before the Trade-winds

Dr. Coan, Missionary to Hawaii

No Respect for Missionaries

Trading Station in the Pacific

John Wesley, the Founder of Methodism

Mission Church and Station

Mission Park Monument

Mission Ship on her Voyage

Landing on an Atoll of the Hervey Group

Cocoa Palms in the Hervey Islands

Native Houses and Canoe

Missionary Station on Aneityum Island

Tanna Islander on a Queensland Plantation

Group of Islanders on a Feejeean Plantation

Firing down the Hatchway

The "Rosario" chasing a Man-stealing Schooner

A Witness for the Defence

Indian Girl House-servant in Feejee

Samoan double Canoe

Coral Architects in Samoan Waters

A Beach-comber

Growth of Coral on a Mountain slowly Subsiding

Ass's Ears, Florida Island

A House in the Tonga Islands

Native Teacher, Upolu, Samoan Islands

Map of the South Sea Islands

Crabs eating Cocoanuts

A Plantation in the South Sea Islands

A Fair Wind

Bread-fruit

War Canoe of the Olden Time

Canoes drawn on Shore

Captain James Cook

An American Resident

Cave near the Picnic Ground

Massacre Bay

A Village in Vanikoro

Hat Island, west of Vanikoro

Louis XVI. and La Pérouse

A Native of Feejee

A Royal Attendant

Ancient Feejee Temple

A Polynesian Idol

A Coast Scene in Kandavu

A Planter's Residence

A New Arrival

Going to Feejee

Scene on a Cotton Plantation

Sugar-cane Mill

Feejeean Head-dress

An Accomplished Liar

Fork of a Cannibal King

Tanoa, former King of Feejee

A Cannibal Dance

Skull found at the Banquet Ground

View in a Valley of the Interior of the Island

Avenue of Palms

A Part of Levuka

Fred's Fly

Frank's Mosquito

One Variety of Sea-worm

Going for Balola

Ancient Feejeean War-dance

Moonlight on the Waters

Mission Church in the Feejee Islands

Going to Church.—River Scene

Feejeean Head

Feejeean Weapons

Telling the Story

Formation of Clouds before a Feejeean Hurricane

After the Storm

Coast Scene in a Calm

Lost in the Hurricane

Mota, or Sugar-loaf Island

Two-tree Island

A Young Student

Stone Monument, Tongataboo

A Volcano in the Pacific

An Island Cavern

Islands on the Coast

Auckland in 1840

View of Auckland from Mount Eden

Mission Station at Tangiteroria, New Zealand

Early Days in New Zealand

In a State of Decadence

A Kainga Maori (Native) Village

Carved New Zealand Chest

Maori War Clubs

Lake in the Crater of an Extinct Volcano

Sawing a Kauri Pine

Stock-farm in the Suburbs

A Water-oak

A Pakeha Maori

A Pakeha Maori's Home

View of a Part of Auckland and its Harbor

Maori Tattooing

Inland Scenery

Captain Cook's Gift to the Maoris

Skeleton of the Extinct Moa (Dinornis)

Dressing Flax

Family of Deer on Kawau Island

Prospecting for Gold

Stamp-mill at Grahamstown

"Struck a Pocket"

Gold-mining on the Sea-shore

A Miner's Camp in the Mountains

Visiting a Mine

Inland Scenery

Among the Hot Springs

The Baths at Rotomahana

Hotel Life at the Hot Lakes

A Mud Crater

The White Terraces, seen from above

The Pink Terraces, seen from below

Lake Tarawera, in the Hot Lake District

The Tabu Removed

Maori Village of Wairoa, in the Hot Lake District

A Maori Prophet in the King Country

British Soldiers attacking a Maori Pah

Outworks of a Maori Pah

In the Harbor

In Napier for his Health

Scene on a Sheep Farm.—Off to the Pasture

Farm Scenes in the Open Country

On the Coast near Wellington

Just down from the Interior

Mountain and Lake in New Zealand

Just arrived from England

A Promenader

Home of a Prosperous Resident

Sewing-class in an Industrial School

Residence of the Governor, Wellington

Down the Slope

Logging in "the Bush"

Settlers' Cabins in the Open Country

Mount Egmont and Ranges

Home Scene at Christchurch

Harvest-time in Canterbury

Maid-servant off Duty

Gardening in the Park

Under the Shears

A Sheep-shearing Shed in New Zealand

A Flock of Sheep among the Hills

Sheep and Herder killed in a Snow-storm

Reducing the Rabbit Population

Parrots

A New Zealand Pest

A Steam Threshing-machine

English Sparrows at Home

Class in the Industrial School

A Perilous Night-watch

The Summit of Mount Cook

Attempt to climb the Eastern Spur

River issuing from a Glacier

Hydraulic Mining

A Squatter's Home

A Mountain Water-fall

Shotover Gorge Bridge

On the Shore of the Lake

Bound for Sydney

Entrance to Port Jackson

General View of Sydney Harbor

Statue of Captain Cook, Sydney

George III.

Avenue in the Botanical Gardens

Candidates for Transportation

Sydney and its Harbor

The Town-hall, Sydney

Sentenced to Hard Labor

View of Sydney from Pyrmont, Darling Harbor

Home of an Emancipist

A Ticket-of-leave Man

Just arrived in Port

Ship-yard Scene

On the Paramatta River

Irrigating an Orange-grove

Interior of a Coal-breaker

Gold-fields of Mount Alexander, Australia

Clearing in an Australian Forest

A Waterless Region

Australian Lyre-birds

A Member of the Legislature

Infant Class in an Industrial School

Completing the Railway

A Fallen Giant

Silver-stem Eucalypti

From Tenterfield to Stanthorpe

A Balcony

Palm-trees in the Botanical Gardens

"No more Tricks at the Wheel"

A Relic of Old Colonial Times

Among the Foot-hills

Picking Figs

A Clearing in the Scrub

Suburban Residence on the River's Bank

Gathering the Grapes

Cellars for Storing Wine

Chinese Laborers in a Vineyard

Aboriginal Australian

West Coast Australians

Civilized Aborigines

Aboriginal Method of making Fire

Australian Warriors watching a Boat

Battle between Hostile Tribes of Australians

Aboriginal Australians and their Huts

Aboriginal Children playing in the Water

The Haunt of the Bun-yip

The Team

Pets at the Station

The Tiger Snake

Camping-out on a Cattle-run

The Poisonous Spider (magnified)

The Prosperous Squatter

"I'm waiting for You"

Performance of a Bucker

The Milking yard

Coming in from Pasture

An Australian Stock-rider

An Unsteady Seat

A New Chum's First Ride

A Stampede

A Free Selector at Home

Arrival of the Weekly Mail

"Cutting Out"

Mustering Cattle

Branding a Calf

Died alone in "the Bush"

The Emu

The Pride of the Station

The Squatter's Pet

Cattle going to Water

A Home in the Bush

Herd of Mixed Cattle on a Station

A Shepherd's Dog

Ewes and Lambs

Mother of a Family

Sheep-shearing in Australia

Sheds and Chicken-yard of a Station

Sheep-washing on the Modern Plan

The Rush for the Gold-mines

Bush-ranger out of Luck

Bush-rangers at Work

Leading Citizens of Somerset

Pearl Oyster

Australian Pearls (full size)

Big Ben and his Friends

Waiting for Sunset

Evening Scene at an Up-country Station

An Australian Pest

The Sand-flea (natural size and magnified)

The Australian Bower-bird

Wallace's Standard-wing Birds-of-paradise, male and female

Head of the Valley Quail

A Quail Family

Out Prospecting

Quartz mill in the Gold-mines

Australian Gold-hunters

A Gold-miner's Home

A Chinese Discussion

Wrecked on the Reef

The Manatee, or Dugong

Evening at Home on the North Coast

Dingoes, or Australian Wild Dogs

Australian Wild Horses

A Kangaroo Battue, or Drive

Red Kangaroo

Short eared Kangaroo

Kangaroos in Captivity

A Corroboree

Something for Breakfast

Near the Camp

An Australian Courtship

The Night Alarm

Reception of a Brickfielder

A Brickfielder putting in its Work

Building a Railway on the Plains

Zigzag Railway in the Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains

On the Head-waters of the Murray River

Gallery of a Theatre during a Performance

Scene in the Riverina

Steamboat on the Murray River

Fish-hatching Boxes on a small Stream

Immigrant's Camp in the Foot-hills of the Range

The Founding of Melbourne, August, 1835

Public Library, Melbourne

Melbourne Post-office

Government House, Melbourne

Collins Street in 1870

Public Offices and Treasury Gardens

Town-hall, Melbourne

View from South Melbourne, 1868

Part of Melbourne in 1838

A Suburban Residence

Harbor Scene in the Moonlight

Boarding-house of 1851

A Good Location for Business

Loading a Ship from a Lighter

The Artillery Rocks, near Lorne, on the Coast of Victoria

Waiting to see the Editor

Distributing Papers to Newsboys

The Race for the Melbourne Cup

Head of a Winner

A Cricket-match

Summer Retreat in the Mountains

Caught in a "Burster" on the Australian Coast

Seeking Shelter

Pioneer Gold-hunters

Map of the Gold-fields of Victoria Twenty Years ago

Edward Hargreaves, the Gold Discoverer

The Rush to Ballarat

Lake Scenery

A Gippsland Settler

The Peach Harvest

A Cottage in the Suburbs of Launceston

An Old Settler

At Bay in the Bush

A Camp in the Bush

Entrance to Cave

Near Deloraine

Australia at the Feet of Tasmania

Old Convict Church, Port Arthur, Tasmania

One of the Watch dogs

"Land, ho!"

On the Pier

Post-office and Town hall, Adelaide

Adelaide in 1837

Reaping Brigade at Work

Proclamation Tree at Glenelg, near Adelaide

Victoria Regia House, Botanic Garden, Adelaide

Exploring Expedition on the March

Camp Scene on the Desert Plains of South Australia

Government House and Grounds, Adelaide

Ready for the Start

Explorers in Camp

Monument to Burke and Wills, Melbourne

Colonel Warburton strapped to his Camel

Desert Scenery

The Way of Civilization

A Boomerang

A War-dance of Australian Blacks

Americans who use the Boomerang

Platypus, or Duck-billed Mole

Home of the Duck-bill

One of the Miners

View of Perth, Capital of Western Australia

Forest Scene in the South-west

A Kid-gloved Colonist

In the Pasture Lands

Rocks at the Cape

Illustration from The Boy Travellers in Australasia Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan, and Feejee Islands
Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings