THE DIGGINGS, THE BUSH,
AND MELBOURNE;
OR,
REMINISCENCES OF THREE YEARS’ WANDERINGS
IN VICTORIA.
GLASGOW:
G. D. MACKELLAR, 18 Renfield Street.
PRICE NINEPENCE.
1864.
PREFACE.
The following short narrative was written specially for a small circle of intimate acquaintances, who varied the dulness of village life by meeting once a week to read manuscript essays and selections from favourite authors. The time allowed for reading being limited, and the audience being partly composed of young people, I confined myself mainly to personal experience. As many of the company had previously heard me relate in an off-hand way, the leading incidents, detection would have been sure to follow any attempt at spicing my story with fiction.