Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875

Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents and the list of illustrations were added by the transcriber.
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AUSTRALIAN SCENES AND ADVENTURES.
THREE FEATHERS by WILLIAM BLACK.
THE RASKOL, AND SECTS IN RUSSIA.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


FOREST OF COCKATOOS.
People who go to Australia expecting every other man they meet to be a convict, and every convict a ruffian in felon's garb, will assuredly find themselves mistaken. And if contemplating a residence in Sydney or Melbourne they need not anticipate the necessity of living in a tent or a shanty, nor yet of accepting the society of convicts or negroes as the only alternative to a life of solitude. Neither will it be necessary to go armed with revolvers by day, nor to place plate and jewels under guard at night. Sydney, the capital of the penal colony, is a quiet, orderly city, abounding in villas and gardens, churches and schools, and about its well-lighted streets ride and walk well-dressed and well-bred people, whose visages betray neither the ruffian nor the cannibal. Some of them may be convicts or ticket-of-leave-men, but this a stranger would need to be told, as they dress like others, their equipages are quite as stylish, and many of them not only amass more property, but are really more honest, than some of those never sentenced, because they know that the continuance of their freedom depends on their reputation.