VIII.—AUSTRALIA
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From Dampier’s Dream: an Australian Foreshadowing (Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., 1892). By permission of the author’s representatives.
William Dampier (1652–1715), pirate, circumnavigator, and captain in the navy, made several voyages to the South Seas.
[CCXX]
Poems (Melbourne: A. H. Massina & Co., 1884). By permission of the publishers.
[CCXXI]
From Australia Federata (The Times, January 1, 1901). This poem appeared the same day in the leading journals of all the States of the Commonwealth of Australia. By permission of Sir Horace Tozer, K.C.M.G., Agent-General for Queensland.
[CCXXII]
First published in a Tasmanian newspaper. By permission of the author.
[CCXXIII]
In the Days when the World was Wide (Sydney: Angus & Robertson. London: The Australian Book Co., 1895). By permission of Messrs. Angus & Robertson.
Jackeroo (l. 24).
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Literature (November 11, 1899). By permission of the author and the editor of Literature.
[CCXXV]
Maoriland and other Verses (Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1899). By permission of the publishers.
l. 2. tussock. ‘Tussock’ is a coarse grass.
[CCXXVI]
Fair Girls and Grey Horses (Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1899). By permission of the publishers. This poem first appeared in the Sydney Bulletin.
l. 9. Macquarie. The river Macquarie rises in the Blue Mountains, eighty miles west of Sydney. After following a north-westerly course of 280 miles its waters are lost in the Macquarie marshes.
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First appeared in The Brisbane Courier (August 8, 1899).
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The first appeared in Songs of the South (Ward, Lock & Co., 1891), and the second is an extract from The Commonwealth: an Ode (Melbourne Age, January 1901). By permission of the author.
As to the first,—Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), discoverer and captain in the navy, was one of the first surveyors of the east coast of Australia. He spent many years in exploring the country adjacent to the coast.