CONTENTS

[PART I. WESTERN AUSTRALIA]
CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Land of the Unlatched Door[3]
II.First Impressions[9]
III.Perth: a Paradise for the Working Man[20]
IV.In the Bush[34]
V.Agriculture and Gold[51]
[PART II. SOUTH AUSTRALIA]
VI.A Bird’s-Eye View[73]
VII.Adelaide[88]
VIII.Compulsory Training and Social Life in Adelaide[98]
[PART III. VICTORIA]
IX.Collins Street—Melbourne[113]
X.Social Life in Melbourne[121]
XI.Ballarat[132]
XII.The Black Spur[146]
[PART IV. NEW SOUTH WALES]
XIII.Sydney Harbour[165]
XIV.Sydney and its Neighbourhood[173]
XV.The Blue Mountains and a Bush Picnic[186]
[PART V. QUEENSLAND]
XVI.Banana-Land[205]
XVII.The Beginning of the Tropics[212]
XVIII.A Day in the Queensland Bush[221]
XIX.In and About Brisbane[230]
[PART VI. TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY]
XX.The Great Barrier Reef[245]
XXI.The Northern Territory[272]