Australian Pictures, Drawn with Pen and Pencil

by Howard Willoughby

• Aborigines:
  • appearance, [167;]
  • life, [168;]
  • fighting, [168;]
  • Mr. Moore's narrative about, [169;]
  • customs, [169;]
  • dress, [170;]
  • Mr. Carr's story, [170;]
  • Ngooraialum and Bangerang tribes, [170;]
  • weapons, [173;]
  • fierceness of Northern blacks, [173;]
  • Corroboree, a, [174;]
  • cannibalism, [174;]
  • trackers, their usefulness as, [174;]
  • Mission stations, [175;]
  • Lake Tyers station, [176;]
  • Hagenauer, Rev. F. A., letter of, about, [177;]
• Acacia, [200]
• Adelaide:
  • founding, [103;]
  • Glenelg, [103;]
  • houses, [103],[104;]
  • streets and parks, [103;]
  • surroundings, [103;]
  • churches, [104;]
  • Victoria Square, [105;]
  • King William Street, [105;]
  • Botanical Gardens, [105;]
• Albany, [138]
• Albert, river, [125]
• Alligator stories, [113]
• Amadeus, lake, [101]
• Araucarias, [202]
• Argus snipe, [192]
• Australia:
  • former errors about, [14], [23;]
  • exports, [14;]
  • population, [14;]
  • prosperity, [14;]
  • colonies, [15;]
  • capitals, [15;]
  • people, [16;]
  • area, [19;]
  • mountains, [20;]
  • snow, [20;]
  • river system, [20;]
  • physical geography, [21;]
  • climate, [21], [76], [101], [112], [138;]
  • hot winds, [22;]
  • temperature, [22;]
  • storms, [22;]
  • natives, [23;], [167;]
  • fires, [23;], [213;]
  • rainfall, [24;]
  • drought, losses by, [25], [76], [94], [208;]
  • not yet fully explored, [25;]
  • democracy, [29;]
  • securities, rise in, [30;]
  • federation movement, [30;]
  • immigration, [30;]
  • wages, [30;]
  • prices, [31;]
  • religion, [31;]
  • service, a rural, [32;]
  • Sunday observance, [32;]
  • sects, [34;]
  • Sunday schools, [34;]
  • church building, [34;]
• Australia Felix, [40]
• Australian Alps, the, [40]
• Avon, river, [68]

• Bairnsdale, [69]
• Ballarat:
  • impressions, [59;]
  • Botanical Gardens, [60;]
  • discovery of gold, [60;]
  • situation, [61;]
  • the Corner, [61;]
  • Trollope on, [62]
• Barcoo, river, [164]
• Barrier Reef, the, [123]
• Barrow Creek, station at, [109]
• Bass, story of, [155]
• Bass's Straits, [144]
• Bathurst, [93]
• Batman, settlement of, in Victoria, [38]
• Baudin, M., treachery of, [157]
• Baxter, murder of, [158]
• Bear, native, [181]
• Beechworth, [69]
• Belfast, [66]
• Ben Lomond, [147]
• Bendigo, see [Sandhurst].
• Big Scrub, New South Wales, [95]
• Birds of Paradise, [186]
• Bishopscourt, view from, Melbourne, [43]
• Black boy, [202]
• Black-fish, [194]
• Black Spur, the, [72]
• Black Thursday in South Australia, [213;]
  • in Victoria, [214]
• Blackheath, [90]
• Blayney, [94]
• Blue gum, [200]200
• Blue Mountains, [87]
• Blue wren, [186]
• Boomerang, the, [173]
• Booth, Mr. E. C., on Shepparton, [67]
• Boroina, [202]
• Bosisto, Mr. J., on Eucalyptus, [199]
• Botany Bay, discovery of, [76]
• Bottle-tree, [201]
• Bourke Street, Melbourne, [49]
• Bourke, New South Wales, [94;]
  • a winter day at, [94]
• Bowen, [123]
• Box-tree, [208]
• Bower bird, [188]
• Box-scrub, the, [136]
• Bream, [193]
• Breeza plains, [295]
• Bremer, river, [119]
• Bremoroma, [94]
• Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, [43]
• Brisbane, population, [119;]
  • site, [119;]
  • streets, [119;]
  • beauty, [120;]
  • garden of Acclimatisation Society, [120;]
  • houses, [121;]
• Broome, Sir F. N., on life in Western Australia, [140]
• Brown, Mr. G. A., on sheep breeding, [205]
• Buffaloes, [113]
• Bulmer, Rev. J., at Lake Tyers, [176]
• Bundaberg, [112]
• Bunbury, [135]
• Burke, R. O'Hara, expedition of, [161]
• Burketown, [125]
• Burnett, river, [122]
• Bustard, [190]

• Cairns, [124]
• Caldwell, Mr. W. H., on the platypus, [185]
• Cam, river, [146]
• Camels at Beltana, [107]
• Canoona rush, the, in Queensland, [129]
• Cape Grant, [67]
• Cape Nelson, [67]
• Cape Otway ranges, fire at, [214]
• Capertee, [91]
• Capitals, [15]
• Cardwell, [124]
• Carr, Mr. E. M., on the natives, [170]
• Carriers, [210]
• Castle hill, [87]
• Casuarina Striata, [200]
• Cats, native, [182]
• Cattle-raising, [204]
• Cattle, number of, in Australia, [14]
• Central Trunk Railway, Queensland, [122]
• Charters Towers, [123]
• Churches, the, state of, [31]
• Clarence, river, [96]
• Clermont, [123]
• Climate, [21], [76], [101], [112], [138]
• Coaching, Trollope on, [70]
• Cobb, who he was,[70]
• Cockatoo, [186]
• Cohan, [94]
• Colac lake, [65]
• Collins lands at Sorrento, [38]
• Collins Street, Melbourne, [49]
• Concherry, river, [162]
• Cook, Captain, discovers Botany Bay, [76]
• Cooktown, [124]
• Cooper's Creek, native settlement at, [164]
• Corangamite lake, [64]
• Corra Linn, [145]
• Corroboree, a, [174]
• Cotton growing in Queensland, [129]
• Crosbie, Clara, story of, [219]
• Cunningham's Gap, [119]
• Cutting out cattle, [204]
• Cycads, [202]

• Dalby, [122]
• Darling Downs, [118], [119]
• Darling, river, [21], [94]
• Dasyuridæ, the, [182]
• Deloraine, [145]
• Democracy, [29]
• D'Entrecasteaux Channel, [151]
• Depôt Glen, Sturt at, [23]
• Derwent, river, [150]
• Devil, Tasmanian, [182]
• Dibbs, Mr., on losses by drought, [25]
• Dingo, [183]
• Dog, wild, [183]
• Don, river, [146]
• Dow, Mr. T. K., on farming, [211]
• Drought, losses by, [25], [76], [76], [208]
• Dubbo, [94]
• Ducks, wild, [191;]
  • mountain duck, [191;]
  • black duck, [191;]
  • wood duck, [191;]
  • teal, [191;]
  • widgeon, [191;]
  • blue wing, [191]

• Eaglebank Neck, [151]
• Elder, Sir Thomas, introduces camels, [107]
• Emu, chase of, [188]
• Emu Plains, [88;]
  • Dr. J. E. Taylor on, [90]
• Eucalypt, [194]
• Eucalyptus amygdalina, [196]
• E. dumosa, [199]
• E. ficifolia, [199]
• E. globus, [200]
• E. rostrata, [197]
• Exploration:
  • Sturt's exploration, [23;]
  • Bass and Flinders, story of, [155;]
  • Baudin, M., treachery of, [157;]
  • Eyre, E. J., travels of, [158;]
  • Forrest, J., journey of, [159], [164;]
  • Leichhardt, L., story of, [159;]
  • Kennedy disaster, the, [160;]
  • Stuart, J. McDougall, journey of, [161;]
  • Burke's expedition, [161;]
  • M'Kinlay's party, [164;]
  • Landsborough's party, [164;]
  • Walker's party, [164;]
  • Howitt's party, [164;]
  • Warburton's party, [164]
• Exports of Australia, [14]
• Eyre, E. J., explorations of, [158]
• Eyre, lake, [101]

• Farming, [211]
• Fauna:
  • alligators, [113;]
  • buffaloes, [113;]
  • pearls, [139;]
  • kangaroo, 'old men,' [181;], [185;]
  • marsupial mouse, [181;]
  • wombat, [181;]
  • flying fox, [181;]
  • native bear, [181;]
  • Bass River opossum, [182;]
  • Tasmanian tiger-wolf, [182;]
  • Tasmanian devil, [182;]
  • dingo, [183;]
  • platypus, [185;]
  • birds, [185;]
  • parrots, [185;]
  • birds of Paradise, [185;]
  • king parrot, [186;]
  • blue mountain parrot, [186;]
  • lories, [186;]
  • parroquets, [186;]
  • love-birds, [186;]
  • blue wren [186;]
  • cockatoos, [186;]
  • lyre-birds, [186;]
  • bower birds, [188;]
  • laughing jackass, [188;]
  • emu, [188;]
  • bustard, [190;]
  • native companion, [191;]
  • wild ducks, [191;]
  • black swan, [191;]
  • snipe, [191;]
  • quail, [192;]
  • wonga-wonga, [192;]
  • bronze-wing pigeon, [192;]
  • snakes, [192;]
  • shark catching, [193;]
  • trout, [193;]
  • salmon, [193;]
  • perch, [193;]
  • bream, [193;]
  • Murray cod, [193;]
  • sea salmon, [193;]
  • Murray-perch, [193;]
  • golden-perch, [193;]
  • black-fish, [194;]
  • whiting, [194;]
  • schnapper, [194]
• Favenc, Mr. E., on exploration, [25]
• Fawkner, settlement of, in Victoria, [39]
• Fawkner's Park, [39]
• Federation movement, the, [30]
• Feilberg, Mr. C. A, on Queensland, [117]
• Ferns, [196]
• Fig-tree, the, [126]
• Fingal, [147]
• Fires, [23], [213]
• Fish River caves, [91]
• Fitzroy, river, [122]
• Flame-tree, [201]
• Flora:
  • nettle-tree, [127;]
  • poisonous plants, [136;]
  • box scrub, [136;]
  • rock plant, [136;]
  • heart-leaf plant, [136;]
  • York road plant, [136;]
  • wild flowers, [138;]
  • eucalypt, [194;]
  • mallee scrub, [195;]
  • giant gums, [195], [197;]
  • spinifex, [195;]
  • ferns, [196;]
  • palm-tree, [196;]
  • musk-tree, [196;]
  • Pittosporum, [196;]
  • silver gum, [197;]
  • red gum, [197;]
  • jarrah, [136], [198;]
  • blue gum, [200;]
  • acacia or wattle, [200;]
  • tea-tree scrub, [200;]
  • shea-oak, [200;]
  • bottle-tree,[201;]
  • flame-tree, [201;]
  • cycads, [202;]
  • palm lilies, [202;]
  • grass-trees, [202;]
  • warratah, [202;]
  • [boronia], [202;]
  • araucarias, [202;]
  • heaths, [202;]
  • grapes, [202;]
  • Mitchell grass, [205;]
  • box-tree, [208]
• Flinders, story of, [155]
• Flinders' Lane, Melbourne, [44]
• Flying fox, [181]
• Forbes, [94]
• Forrest, John, journey of, [159], [164]
• Firth, [146]
• Fremantle, [137]

• Gastrolobium anylobiaides, [136]
• G. bilobum, [136]
• G. callistachys, [136]
• G. calycinum, [136]
• Gardiner, lake, [101]
• Geelong, founding, [62;]
  • growth, [62;]
  • exports, [62;]
  • tweeds of, [63]
• Geraldton, [135]
• Gippsland, scenery of, [67]
• Gladstone, [122]
• Glenelg, [103]
• Golden perch, [193]
• Golden Point, discovery of gold at, [60]
• Gould on Australian birds, [186]
• Grant, Lieut., discovers Port Phillip, [37]
• Grapes, [202]
• Grass-trees, [202]
• Gray, story of, [161]
• Great Divide, the, [96]
• Great West Railway, New South Wales, [87]
• Grey, Earl, circular of, on convicts, [135]
• Guildford, [135]
• Guilfoyle, Mr., director of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, [52]
• Gulf of Carpentaria, [125]
• Gums, giant, [195;] height of, [196], [197]
• Gympie, [123;]
  • discovery of gold field at, [130]

• Hagenauer, Rev. F. A., on the aborigines, [177]
• Harvesting system, [211]
• Hawkesbury sandstone, [90]
• Hayter, Mr. H. H., on wages, [30]
• Heart-leaf, the, [136]
• Heaths, [202]
• Henty, Messrs., in Portland Bay, [38]
• Heron, river, [151]
• Heytesbury forest, [215]
• Hindmarsh, Captain, first governor of South Australia, [103]
• Hobart, description of, [150]
• Hoddle, Robert, lays out Geelong, [62]
• Holdfast Bay, first landing at, [103]
• Horses, number of, in Australia, [14]
• Horsham, [67]
• Hospitality, [207]
• Hot winds, [22]
• Hovell arrives at Port Phillip, [38]
• Howitt, party of, [164]
• Hume arrives at Port Phillip, [38]
• Hurleys, the, at the fire at Otway ranges, [215]

• Immigration, extent of, [30]
• Ipswich, [119], [122]

• Jacky, the black, fidelity of, [160]
• Jarrah forests, [136], [198]
• Jenola, [91]