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The Land of the Kangaroo.

TRAVEL ADVENTURE SERIES.

IN WILD AFRICA. The Adventures of Two Youths in the Sahara Desert. By Thomas W. Knox. 325 pages, with six illustrations by H. Burgess. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50.

THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO. The Adventures of Two Youths in the Great Island Continent. By Thomas W. Knox. 350 pages, with five illustrations by H. Burgess. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50.

^**^* Col. Knox’s sudden death, ten days after completing “The Land of the Kangaroo” leaves unfinished this series of travel stories for boys which he had planned. The publishers announce that the remaining volumes of this series will be issued, although the work will be done by another’s hand. Announcement concerning the remaining volumes of this series will be made later.

“WE PASSED A SHIP BECALMED IN THE DOLDRUMS.”

THE Land of the Kangaroo. ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GREAT ISLAND CONTINENT. BY THOMAS W. KNOX. AUTHOR OF “IN WILD AFRICA,” “THE BOY TRAVELERS,” (15 VOLS.) “OVERLAND THROUGH ASIA,” ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY H. BURGESS. Boston, U. S. A. W. A. WILDE & COMPANY, 25 Bromfield Street.

COPYRIGHT, 1896.

By W. A. WILDE & CO.

All rights reserved.

THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO.

PREFACE.

The rapidly increasing prominence of the Australian colonies during the past ten or twenty years has led to the preparation of the volume of which this is the preface. Australia has a population numbering close upon five millions and it had prosperous and populous cities, all of them presenting abundant indications of collective and individual wealth. It possesses railways and telegraphs by thousands of miles, and the productions of its farms, mines, and plantations aggregate an enormous amount. It has many millions, of cattle and sheep, and their number is increasing annually at a prodigious rate.

Australia is a land of many wonders, and it is to tell the story of these wonders and of the growth and development of the colonies of the antipodes, that this volume has been written.

T. W. K.