Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt

by Sir Richard Tangye

Albatross, The	[27] @115}
America (see also United States)	[135]–[178]
America—Journey across from San Francisco	[147]
Albany	[164]
— Schools at	[165]
Alkali Plains, The	[155]
American Language	[165]
André, Major	[167]
Appetising Mottoes and Sentiments	[160]
Arnold, General	[167]
Bill of Fare, A Curious	[160]
Blue Gum, The (illus)	[148]
Brigham Young’s Dominions	[155]
Bright, John	[151]
Boats	[165]
Bogus Ticket Sellers, Beware of	[157]
Buildings, Block of, Removed Bodily	[161]
Bull Frogs	[149]
Buttes, The	[158]
Cañons	[152], [157]
Cape Horn	[152]
Catskill Mountains	[165]
Chicago	[160], [161]
— Fires in	[161]
— Streets in, Equal to Best in London	[161]
— Timber Houses still Numerous	[161]
— Water Supply for	[161]
Churches, Opposition	[167]
Corinné	[155]
Corn over Ten Feet High	[147]
— without Manure	[147]
Country like a Park	[147]
Cow-Catcher, The	[154]
Crash, A Tremendous	[152]
Descent of 8,000 feet	[159]
Detroit	[162]
Devil’s Slide, The (illus)	[159]
Dining Car, A Well-appointed	[160]
Dollar will Go a Long Way	[168]
Elevation, Greatest Attained	[152]
English Gold Refused	[157]
Eschscholtzias growing wild	[147]
Eucalyptus, The (illus)	[148]
Falls River	[164]
Fields Hundreds of Acres in extent	[147]
Fires in Chicago	[161]
Flowers, Immense patches of	[147]
Free Country	[169]
Gold-Diggings reworked by Chinese	[149]
— Track through	[148]
Gum Tree, The (illus)	[148]
Hotel, The Grand Pacific, Chicago	[162]
Hudson River	[165], [167]
Identification a Difficult Task	[161]
I guess I’ll take your Gold	[157]
Indians, Dreadful looking	[149]
— on the War-Path	[152]
John Scales, Justice of the Peace (illus)	[168]
Justice, A Dealer in	[168]
Lake Ontario	[164]
Language, American	[164]
Life on the Road, A New Feature of	[161]
Lupins growing wild	[147]
Marigolds, Patches of	[147]
Military Academy, West Point	[167]
Mineral Wealth, Untold	[148]
Money-Lender complains	[148]
Monument Rock (illus)	[158]
Mormon Advice	[154]
— Tabernacle Visited	[157]
— Wives lack Cordiality	[156]
Narrow Escape	[151]
Night Attack on Indians	[153]
Ogden	[156], [157]
Omaha	[160]
Pacific Railroad, A Single Track	[151]
Pallisades, The, Hudson River (illus)	[166]
Passport Found Useful	[161]
Pine Forests	[149]
Poultry Secured by the Leg	[169]
Pullman Train, Life on Board	[149]
Railway Covered with Sheds	[152]
— on Trestles	[157]
— Open to Prairie	[154]
— Ride, a splendid one	[177]
Red Sandstone Rocks	[158]
Ride, A Long (Omaha to Chicago)	[160]
Rip van Winkle	[165]
River Boats	[165]
— Hudson	[165], [167]
Rome	[164]
Sacramento Valley	[147]
Saints, Cruel Treatment by the	[153]
Salt Lake City Beautifully Situated	[156]
— (illus)	[155]
Sambo said “No Sah!”	[159]
Schools, National, at Albany	[165]
Snow Mountains	[149]
— Travelling through	[157]
Soil Twenty Feet Deep	[147]
Steamers on the Rivers	[165]
Streets in Chicago Equal to Best in London	[161]
Sulphur Spring	[157]
Syracuse	[164]
Taurus Meets the Train	[154]
Tennyson Claimed as an American Author	[165]
Timber Houses still Numerous in Chicago	[161]
Train, The Last Over	[152]
— The, Met by Taurus	[154]
Trapper’s Story, The	[153]
Turning Point between East and West	[152]
Utica	[164]
Water Supply for Chicago	[161]
West Point, on the Hudson	[167]
Witches, The	[158]
American Grievance	[128]
— Passengers from Honolulu	[127]
Americans not good Sailors	[127]
Ascension, Island of (illus)	[17]
Auckland	[115]
Avoca (illus)	[67]
Woolgrowers	[67]
Australian Colonies (see also Melbourne, Sydney, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales)	[101]
Agricultural Labour, A Fine Field for	[111]
Artisans, Skilled	[110]
Australia, People of, Described	[112]
— Young	[111]
Climate Exhausting	[110]
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus (illus)	[112]
Drought, A Ten Months’	[113]
Education Amply Provided for	[111]
Emigrate, Who should	[110]
Free Trade	[101]
Labour Market, State of	[101]
— Unskilled, A Fine Field for	[111]
Mining Machinery, Perfection of	[107]
Platypus, The Duck-billed (illus)	[112]
Population	[120]
— Surplus, Great Field for	[110]
Postal Arrangements	[111]
Protection	[101]
Railways	[111]
Rent of Houses Enormously Dear	[110]
Schools, First-rate	[111]
Telegraphs	[111]
Wages Higher, but Most Things Dearer, than in England	[110]
Baby Hippopotamus at Play (illus)	[21]
Ballarat	[48]
Botanical Gardens	[49]
Gold Mine	[48]
— (illus)	[49]
— Smallness of	[49]
Gold Raised	[49]
Lake Wendouree	[49]
Bananas	[127]
Bay of Biscay	[5]
Betting on Board Ship	[26]
Boat in a Squall off Plymouth	[2]
Brandy or Whisky?	[131]
Brummagem Shams, where manufactured	[13]
Burial at Sea	[131]
Burying the Dead Horse (illus)	[21]
Campbell Town	[74]
Our Waiter at (illus)	[79]
Canada	[162]
American Customs Officer’s Equipment	[164]
Clifton House, Niagara	[162]
Desecration, Ruthless	[163]
Green Fields like those at Home	[162]
Great Western Railway	[162]
London	[162]
Niagara, Impressions of	[164]
Paris	[162]
Photographers	[163]
Salary, Must Raise, I Guess	[164]
Suspension Bridge at Niagara, Crossing	[164]
Centipedes, A Plague of	[127]
Chair, Taking the	[129]
Coral Reefs	[116], [118]
Day Dropped	[119]
Day Gained	[119]
Duel, Rumours of	[121]
Educated in Four Colleges	[130]
Egypt	[181]–[268]
Abaid	[197]
Abbaseyeh Palace	[216]
Abbas Pasha	[216]
Abraham or Isaac, Old Fellow like	[191]
Aden, a Dreadful Place	[239]
— Importance of	[239]
Adenese Women (illus)	[240]
Agricultural Operations	[223]
Agriculture à la Adam	[188]
Alexandria	[260]
— in Ruins	[264]
— not Bombarded	[265]
— the Forts after Bombardment	[262]
Anglo-Indians	[266]
Apis Mausoleum, The	[203]
Arab, A Discerning	[232]
— An, Hanged	[228]
— School in Syria	[211]
Arabi, Appointed Under Secretary of War	[256]
— at Colombo	[238]
— Bey	[255]
— Causes Numerous Arrests	[257]
— Erects New Earth-works	[258]
— How he Recruited his Army	[258]
— Made Pasha	[257]
— Military Adventurer	[258]
— Moved in a singular way	[239]
— Principal Figure in Outbreaks	[256]
— Visit to	[238]
Arabi’s Personal Appearance	[239]
Arabs, Bedouin	[183]
— How Kept in Order	[181]
— Picturesque Party of	[181]
Au Revoir (illus)	[225]
Backsheesh	[185], [190], [195], [197], [198], [207], [210], [218], [224], [228], [241], [243]
— not demanded	[210]
Balah, Lake of	[245], [248]
Bazaars, In the	[190]
Bedrashên	[201]
Beggars	[195]
Bellows, not made in Birmingham	[191]
Bery cheap, sah! (illus)	[191]
Bethshemish (Heliopolis)	[220]
Biblical Allusions, How to Understand	[185]
Biograph, A Graphic	[206]
Bitter Lakes, The, Identified with Marah	[246]
— Saltness of	[247]
Black Guard, A	[242]
Blacking a Boy’s Bare Feet	[186]
Blue Jackets, Look at our de-ah	[237]
Blue Ribbon Army	[233]
Boat or Dahabieh	[215]
Boats, How Propelled	[181]
Bohemiennes	[228]
Bonaparte, Attempts to Reopen Suez Canal	[245]
Bond-holders, Foreign	[254]
Bridal Party, A	[192]
Brindisi	[267]
British Canal Shares Profitable	[253]
— Mission, Schools at	[211]
Bûlak, A Street in (illus)	[219]
— Suburb of Cairo	[220]
Bull, The Sacred	[203]
Burying-ground	[202]
Cairo	[187], [188], [242]
— Sanitary Condition of, Shocking	[244]
— Trades of	[188]
— Visit to, by Train	[184]
Camelcade, A (illus)	[208]
Camelcades	[207]
Camels, Strings of	[207]
Carriages, Ladies’	[212]
Casinos	[228]
Cemetery, An Ancient	[202]
Cetewayo, alias The Carrib	[229], [234]
— Disguised as a Gentleman (illus)	[235], [236]
Cheops, Great Pyramid of	[197]
Children, Naked	[208]
Christian, I am a	[218]
Citadel, The	[194]
City, A great	[202]
Civ-il, One must be	[236]
Colombo	[238]
Colonels, The, Make further Demands	[256]
Concert, A Pleasant, Looked Forward to	[228]
Cook and Son	[241]
— Name of, a Talisman	[241]
Coptic Guide offered a Commission	[190]
Coral Necklaces	[227]
Cotter, Lieutenant	[229]
Court Martial, Irregular	[257]
Crocodile	[206]
— A dead	[216]
— Lake	[248]
Crowd, A Motley	[181]
Custom-house Examination	[182]
— occupied by English Artillerymen	[227], [229]
Dahabieh or Nile boat	[215]
Dancers and Howlers	[210]
Dervishes, The, Dancing and Howling	[209]
— The, Supported by Government Endowment	[210]
Desert, Prayers in the (illus)	[209]
Devils, Familiar	[195]
Donkey Boy, An Egyptian (illus)	[184]
— My Donkey, good sah	[184]
Donkey Ride	[183]
— across the Nile	[215]
Donkeys for Nine	[183]
— Homeward Bound	[216]
— Names of	[183]
— Universal Use of	[214]
Dragoman (illus)	[182]
Drive to Heliopolis	[216]
Dual Control, The	[254]
Dutch Hotel occupied by Royal Marines	[228]
Egg-hatching Establishment	[194]
Eggs, she only steals the Eggs now	[212]
Egypt, British Occupation of, how Beneficial	[244]
— by whom Disliked	[244]
Egyptian Character, Saddest Side of	[220]
— People, Requirements of	[255]
Electric Light, The,	[231]
El Guisr, The Cutting of	[248]
Embroidery	[190]
End, The (illus)	[268]
Englishman perfidious	[240]
English Representation on Board of Management of Suez Canal not large enough	[252]
Ethiopia shall yet Stretch Forth her Hand	[185]
European Buildings, Few	[183]
Exclusiveness, British	[242]
Excursion, A delightful	[208]
Ezbekiyeh Public Gardens	[244]
Face, A Familiar (illus)	[261]
Fair-day, A	[222]
Fakir, A Holy (illus)	[220], [222]
Fehmi Pasha	[239]
Fellaheen, The, ground down	[259]
Fort Aïda	[263]
— Meks	[263], [265]
— Gemileh	[229]
French, A Nation of Retailers	[252]
— Fleet, The, Withdraws	[258]
— The, outwitted	[240]
Fresh-water Canal completed	[246]
Friday, the Mohammedan Sabbath	[209]
Gamblers on Board Ship	[235]
Gentlemen of the Long Robe	[227]
Gizeh, Pyramids of	[195]
— Station	[201]
Goshen, Land of	[244]
— Land of, preferred	[244]
Governor, A ’cute	[239]
Graphic Biograph, A	[206]
Graveyard at Tel-el-Kebir	[243]
Greek Money-changer	[226]
Gun Hill	[263]
Hassan	[182], [184], [241]
— Sultan	[192]
— Disguised as a Pilgrim	[192]
— How he Recovered his Throne	[194]
Heliopolis (Bethshemish)	[220]
— Drive to	[216]
Hens, Laziness of	[194]
Hippopotamus	[206]
Homes, Everlasting	[207]
Home to Vote	[225]
Hostelries	[207]
Hotel Abbat	[260]
Howlers and Dancers	[210]
Insects something Maddening	[230]
Irrigation	[223]
— Method of, Described	[188]
Ismailïa	[186], [248]
Jewellers	[191]
— Weighing for	[191]
Joseph and Mary’s Tree	[218]
Kantara	[247]
Khalifs, The Tombs of the (illus)	[218]
Khedive’s Gardens, The	[215]
Khedive, The	[208], [212]
— The, Compelled to submit	[255]
Koran, The, in Competition with Threepenny Pieces	[189]
Labour, Forced, a Painful Sight	[187]
Lady, The Last Unmarried	[230]
Lake Menzaleh	[230], [247]
— Timsah	[248]
Lakes, The Bitter	[245], [249]
Law of Liquidation	[254]
Lepère’s Theory	[245]
— Proved Incorrect	[245]
Lesseps, M., Detained at Alexandria	[245]
— Matures his Theory	[246]
L’etat, c’est moi	[259]
Leviathan, Job’s Reference to	[207]
Lucullus	[259]
Lily, Painting the	[186]
Luggage, A Lady’s	[184]
— How Treated	[181]
Mameluke Dynasty, The Last of	[218]
Mamelukes, Massacre of	[194]
Manufacturing Quarter	[191]
Mariette exhumes the Serapeum	[203]
Marines	[229]
— as Police	[230]
Mausoleum, The Apis	[203]
Mecca Pilgrims, Rendezvous of	[216]
Mediterranean, The	[267]
— Waters of, Flow into Bitter Lakes	[246], [248]
Member, Once a, always a Member	[234]
Memphis	[202]
— Ancient, Site of	[201]
— Little more than a Name	[202]
Menzaleh, Lake of	[245]
Military Riot	[255]
Mitrahineh (site of Ancient Memphis)	[201]
Mohammed Ali, Mosque of	[194]
Money-Changers’ Liberality	[227]
Monument, Most Ancient in the World	[202]
Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Visit to	[194]
— The, of Sultan Hassan (illus)	[193]
Mother, Son thrashes her only once a month	[212]
Mud, Great Difficulty in Making Canal	[230]
Museum, The National, for Egyptian Antiquities	[222]
Mutinous Conduct	[256]
Naval Force sent by France and England	[257]
— Arrival at Alexandria	[257]
Nap on Deck	[234]
Necropolis, Ancient	[202]
Nile-boat, A	[216]
Nile, The	[187]
— Valley of	[188]
— View on the (illus)	[198]
Nobleman, The Languishing	[184]
Noph (Memphis)	[202]
Nubians Reported to be Excellent Soldiers	[229]
Obelisk, The Oldest in Egypt	[218]
Octroi, or Town Tax	[216]
On (Heliopolis)	[220]
Orgies, Pious	[210]
Orient, The Steamship (illus)	[186]
— a Magnificent Steamship	[181]
Orphans, Venerable	[224]
Palmerston, Lord, thwarts Lesseps	[246]
Palms, Oranges, and Lemons	[218]
Patriarchal Group, A	[197]
Pebbles as Mementoes of Tel-el-Kebir	[243]
Peep, A (illus)	[190]
Penny, New, Refused	[185]
People, Vast Numbers with Nothing to do	[185]
Perim, Island of, how acquired	[239]
Pious Orgies	[210]
Police, The, Armed with Long Spikes	[216]
Port Saïd	[230], [247]
— a Dreadful Place to Live in	[230]
— Harbour	[231]
— Lighthouse	[231]
— Railway wanted to	[232]
Power vested in Military Party	[257]
Prayers in the Desert (illus)	[209]
Predictions, Ill-founded	[249]
President, The, of Red Ribbon Army	[235]
Pyramid, Ascending the Great (illus)	[196]
— The great Step	[202]
— The Oldest	[202]
Pyramids, Road to	[187]
— The	[216]
— The, First View of	[187]
Quarantine	[268]
Ramleh	[263]
Ramses II, Statue of	[202]
Ras-el-Tin	[261]
Red Tape	[250]
— Ribbon Army	[233]
Rendezvous of Mecca Pilgrims	[216]
Revoir, Au (illus)	[225]
Riot and Massacre of Europeans	[257]
Rotten Row of Cairo, The	[212]
Runners or Saïs, The (illus)	[212], [212]
Sabbath, the Mohammedan	[209]
Safes, obviously of English Manufacture	[191]
Saïs, The	[212]
Sacred Bull, Burying-place of	[203]
Sakkara, To	[201]
Sand, A good Preservative	[205]
Sarcophagus, A huge	[203]
School, An Arab, in Syria	[211]
— Interrupted	[189]
Schoolmaster’s, A, Disappointment	[211]
Schoolmaster, The, Abroad (illus)	[189]
— The, asks for Backsheesh	[190]
Schools, Miss Whateley’s	[211]
Sculpture, Life-like	[222]
Selim, Sultan	[218]
Serapeum, The (illus)	[203], [204]
Seymour, Admiral, Opens Fire on Forts	[258]
Shalouf	[248]
Shave, A, and a Wash (illus)	[199], [199]
Ship of the Desert, A Wrecked	[223]
Shoeblacks	[186]
Shops Tiny	[182]
Shubra Avenue, In (illus)	[214]
— The	[212]
Simon Stylites	[220]
Soldier, British, in Egypt	[242]
Soldiers, English, quite at home	[244]
— glad to have Newspapers	[230]
Sphinx, The	[216]
— The (illus)	[199]
Spider, The	[233], [234], [235]
Spider’s Web, The	[234]
Statue, A, Four Thousand Years old	[222]
Stick, The Heaven-sent	[198]
Story-teller, A	[222]
Storytellers, Professional, at Cairo	[188]
Strabo, on the Serapeum	[203]
Street in Bûlak (illus)	[219]
Streets of Suez Narrow	[182]
Suez	[241], [248]
— Arrive off	[181]
Suez Canal, A new Canal wanted	[252]
— British Traffic through	[247]
— Cost of Constructing	[247]
— Does not silt up	[249]
— Embankments of	[247]
— Erroneous Impressions	[249]
— Festivities on Opening	[247]
— First Undertaken by Pharaoh Necho	[244]
— French Officials inferior in capacity	[250]
— French short-sighted in Business Matters	[252]
— In the (illus)	[226]
— Lesseps’ Monopoly	[252]
— Lesseps, M. de	[250]
— Mercantile Importance of	[247]
— Necessity of increased accommodation	[250]
— Operations begun	[246]
— Palmerston, Lord, Obstinacy of	[250]
— Restrictions Absurd	[251]
— Ships not allowed to move after Sun-down	[251]
— Sinuosities of	[249]
— Steamers under perfect control	[250]
— Suggestion, A	[253]
— How to deal with Profit	[253]
— The	[244]
Suez Hotel	[182], [242]
— Streets of, Narrow	[182]
Sultan, Selim	[218]
Tel-el-Kebir	[242], [243]
Temple, Underground	[201]
Tih, The Tomb of	[205]
Timsah, Lake, Lord Wolseley’s base of operations	[248]
Tomb of Tih (illus)	[205], [206]
Tombs of the Khalifs (illus)	[218]
Torture, A Novel Instrument of	[220]
Town Tax, The, or the Octroi	[216]
Treasures, Buried	[201]
Tree, The Virgin’s	[218]
Umbrellas, A New Use for	[181]
Villages, Dreadful Mud	[207]
Virgin’s Tree, The	[218]
Wash, A, and a Shave (illus)	[199], [201]
Wash Basin, An Impromptu	[229]
Washing Hands, A Primitive Mode of	[199]
Water-carriers (illus)	[215]
Weigher for the Trade	[192]
Whateley’s, Miss, Schools	[211]
What lack ye?	[226]
Wild Fowl Shooting, Good	[230]
Words which Broke no Bones	[182]
Zagazig	[187]
Equator, Heat at	[24]
Faces too Dark to be Seen	[122]
Falmouth	[63]
Beach and Sands	[71]
Burial-place (illus)	[70]
Cockney Sportsman	[71]
Der Dichter Spricht	[65]
Epping Forest	[67]
Hotel (illus)	[69]
Land of Snakes	[64]
Magpies	[63]
River Esk	[64]
Stoney Creek	[64]
Fernshaw	[53]
Hard Fare	[53]
Pioneering	[53]
Fiji Children ask for More	[117]
— Islands	[116]
— Native of (illus)	[117]
Fingal	[67]
Fire Brigade Practice	[119]
Flying Fish	[27]
Free Trade	[99]
Gambling on Board Ship	[26]
Golden Gate, The	[131]
Gum Trees, A Forest of	[51]
— (illus)	[52], [53]
Habits of Islanders acquired	[128]
Healesville	[51]
A Soafler	[51]
Hotel Accommodation	[51], [56]
Remedy, a Sovereign	[58]
Hobart Town	[77]
Fern Tree Valley	[78]
Harvest in February	[78]
Jericho to Jerusalem, via Bagdad	[78]
New Norfolk	[78]
Homeward Bound	[127]
Honolulu, Arrival at	[122]
Baby Sold for a Dollar	[126]
Breakfast ordered Overnight	[122]
Brownie, Quite a	[125]
Chairs or Seats usually absent	[126]
Children described	[124]
Country very Poor	[125]
Dragon-flies, numerous	[124]
Dressmaking not a difficult Art	[124]
Faces too Dark to be Seen	[122]
Fire-flies	[122]
Flowers of the most brilliant colours	[124]
Grass green and beautiful	[124]
Hawaiian Islands, King of, Landlord of Hotel	[123]
Healthiness of	[127]
Heathen Chinee, his Tricks not in Vain	[123]
Hotel	[122]
Houses made chiefly of Rushes	[126]
Islanders en fète	[121]
Letters, Glad to be Rid of	[125]
Library	[125]
Museum	[125]
Natives Dressed in Splendid Colours	[124]
Parliament House	[125]
Passenger Overboard	[121]
Perfume of Tropical Flowers	[122]
Pilots Decline to go out for Vessels	[121]
Race fast dying out	[125]
Ruth, the King’s Sister (illus)	[127]
Servants gone Home	[122]
Squatting on Ground Prevailing Custom	[126]
Supper not to be had	[122]
Temperature of	[127]
Vegetation of	[124]
Village, Native	[126]
Villas Pretty and Numerous	[126]
Waiters Celestial	[123]
Water, Thoughts when Under	[121]
Women’s Clothing, Scanty	[124]
Women Stately Looking	[124]
Honolulu, Hotel at	[122]
Horse, Burying the Dead (illus)	[21]
Hotel Experiences	[67]
I guess the seat is dry now	[129]
Irish Bulls, where manufactured	[13]
Islanders en fète	[121]
Jefferson Brick, Junior	[129]
Jerra Jerra	[96]
Kandavu	[115]
Knife Trick, The	[130]
Life on Board Ship (see Ship—Life on Board)	[3]–[39]
Lyre Bird, The (illus)	[59]
Launceston	[61]
Bees in Mourning	[62]
Cicadas	[61]
Cora Linn	[63]
Pomona’s Temple	[62]
Snakes	[61]
Tamar River	[61]
Tasmanian Hospitality	[62]
Tonsorial Palace	[62]
Tree Locusts	[61]
Marysville	[56]
Stephenson Falls	[56]
Meal, a good square one preferred on Shore	[121]
Melbourne (see also Victoria)	[39]
Berry Ministry, the	[43]
Black Death at	[40]
Black Spur Mountains	[50]
— (illus)	[56]
Building Trade at, Depressed, Results	[102]
Bush, The	[50]
Description of	[41]
Education	[42]
Exhibition at, why decided on	[102]
Happy Land	[46]
Hobson’s Bay	[39], [80]
Hot Winds	[47]
Natural History Museum	[42]
Old Debts, a New Way to Pay	[45]
Overland from Sydney	[94], [100]
Parliamentary Procedure	[43]
Parliament, Houses of	[45]
— Payment of Members of	[44]
Protection	[102]
Revisited	[79]
Roads	[50]
Sanitary Arrangements, Defective	[47]
Stage Coaches	[50]
Streets wide and long	[103]
Tall and Fat a street sweeper	[48]
Tramways opposed by Cabmen	[103]
Vineyards	[50]
Yarra Yarra River	[60]
Mister	[130]
Moighty Dry	[130]
Native Dish called Poi	[128]
New South Wales (see also Sydney)	[107]
Acres Many, Men Few	[107]
Agricultural Machinery, Imported	[108]
Artisans Attracted from Victoria	[109]
Customs Revenue, Increase of	[110]
Employment Abundant	[107]
Exports, Increase of	[110]
Free Trade Colony	[107]
Hudson Bros, Limited	[108]
Immigration Larger than in Victoria	[109]
Imports, Increase of	[110]
Imports in 1782 and 1881	[109]
Industry, A Native, Created	[108]
Labour, Increasing Demand for	[109]
Machinery, Agricultural and Mining, Imports of	[108]
— Mining, Demand for	[107]
Manufacturing Concern, Largest in Colony	[108]
Men Few, Acres Many	[107]
Mining Machinery, Imports of	[108]
— Machinery, Perfection of	[107]
Policy Opposite to that of Victoria	[107]
Population Attracted	[109]
— Constantly Increasing	[107]
— Increase of, in Ten Years	[110]
— Room for More	[109]
Prosperity, Evidences of	[107]
Railway System, Vast and Expanding	[107]
Sawmills, Steam, at Sydney	[108]
Shipping	[107]
— Development of	[109]
— During last Thirty Years	[109]
— Repairing Yards Removed from Victoria	[109]
Timber, Native Better than Imported	[108]
Trade, Import and Export	[107]
Victoria Contrasted with	[107]
Oatlands	[78]
The Gaol	[79]
Pacific Ocean belies its Name	[115]
Parson, The, Quite at Sea	[16]
A Man of Peace now	[30]
Colonists’ complain of	[32]
Congregation, Secures a	[16]
Drain Pipes, how they are made	[30]
Mixes his Degrees	[31]
Sermon on Geology	[16]
Water Pumped from a Mine Twelve Miles Deep	[16]
Passenger, Death of	[130]
— falls Overboard	[121]
Personal Difficulties	[120]
— Favour, As a	[131]
Pilots Decline to go out for Vessels	[121]
Protection	[39], [100]
Salt Water good for the “Spin-ial Orgins”	[7]
San Francisco	[131]
Baggage Master	[147]
Business Activity	[138]
— Men, Sharp	[140]
Carriages, Hackney	[144]
Character, Bad Better than None	[139]
Chinaman, Am claimed as a	[144]
Chinese Close Shavers	[141]
Chinese Pigtails (illus)	[142]
— Joss Houses Visited	[143]
— Quarter Full of Interest	[141]
— Numerous	[140]
— Quarter Explored at Night	[143]
— Theatre Visited	[143]
— Washermen	[137]
— Wedding	[143]
Civilisation and Barbarism Face to Face	[137]
Climate Delightful	[145]
Correspondent, A Familiar	[138]
Darwin would have been Delighted	[142]
Dodge, A Favourite	[139]
Earning a Cent anyhow	[132]
English Fittings	[137]
Entrance to Harbour Sighted	[131]
Fire Brigades	[144]
Flats and Sharps	[139]
Golden Gate, The	[131]
Governor, Qualifications for a State	[140]
Habit, The National	[138]
Hackney Carriages	[144]
Heat and Dust Terrible	[147]
I Guess you are Going to England	[140]
Jarrett, A. J. C.	[138]
John Chinaman	[141]
Knife and Fork, only One at Meals	[138]
Lady Doctors Numerous	[140]
Luggage, Arrangements for, Excellent	[147]
Min-ne, Little	[141]
Mister, Last of (illus)	[146]
My Wife is Dead	[138]
Pacific Seal	[145]
Palace Hotel	[135], [137]
Police, Messenger from Chief of	[139]
Sea-lions	[145]
Seal Rocks (illus)	[145]
Starching, a Fine Art	[137]
Streets, Handsome	[138]
Tang-y, A Chinese City	[144]
Tang-ye, Proof of Celestial Origin	[144]
Temperature	[145]
Tobacco Chewing and its Consequences	[138]
Tramways	[144]
Volunteers	[144]
Yosemite Valley	[146]
San Francisco, Voyage to	[113], [132]
Sharks	[18], [30]
— don’t like Dark Skins	[118]
Ship-Life on board	[3]
Albatross	[27]
Bay of Biscay, Nor’-wester in	[6]
Bazaar	[34]
Betting	[26], [38]
Blatant Beast, The, fires a Revolver	[25]
Burying the Dead Horse	[21]
Cabin’d, Cribb’d, Confin’d	[3]
Cape Otway	[38]
Captain not so fond of Progress as the Passengers	[12]
Captains, why they are Tories	[13]
Cat Chase	[26]
Collisions at Sea	[29]
Colonial Statesman beaten but not vanquished	[39]
Concerts and Recitations	[9]
Congregation, How to Secure a	[16]
Consumptive Patients sent too late	[5]
Cross-signalling	[35]
Danite Band, The	[33]
Death and Burial at Sea	[15]
Dolphins	[27]
Dolphin, the “Classic” (illus)	[28]
Dramatic Performance	[35]
Exhibition, Fine Art	[35]
Fellow-passengers	[4]
First Night on Board	[3]
Flying Fish	[27]
Gale off Cape Leeuwin	[38]
Genial Captain (illus) advantageous	[11]
German Lady, old but lively	[19]
Hobson’s Bay	[39]
Illness of Passengers	[14]
Incident in Cornwall recalled	[24]
Ixion goes mad	[14]
Letters Home	[29]
Life Friendships formed	[4]
Love your Enemies	[17]
Melbourne, Arrive at	[39]
Music not always harmonious	[10]
Night-walkers a nuisance	[9]
Nor’-wester in the Bay of Biscay	[6]
Parson Mixes his Degrees	[31]
Pilot Fish	[28]
Passengers paying their Footing	[30]
— divided into Sets	[3]
Peal of Hand-bells	[16]
Portuguese Man-of-War	[28]
Private Convict System	[4]
Quoits a selfish Game	[9]
Rolling Forties	[38]
Scarlet Lady	[20]
Sea-sickness, Cure for	[6]
Sermon on Geology	[16]
Sharks	[18], [30]
Ship in full Sail	[29]
Short and Stout	[25]
Soup too Salt	[19]
Sports (illus)	[8]
Spurgeon’s Evangelist	[32]
Squall near Madeira	[12]
Steward’s Life a hard one	[7]
Tall and Fat	[25]
Tristan d’Acunha	[38]
Tropical Heat	[8], [24]
Tropical Phosphorescence	[33]
Newspaper	[10]
Water Pumped from Twelve Miles Deep	[16]
Wild Spirits carry on	[25]
Whale	[30]
Ship’s Doctors	[120]
Snakes	[61], [64], [68], [72], [73], [74], [97]
Spurgeon’s Evangelist	[32]
Steward, A Negro	[115]
St Mary’s (illus)	[68]
Supper, Too late for	[123]
Sunday at the Fiji Islands	[116]
Sydney (see also New South Wales)	[80]
Ants	[90]
Bail-up	[89]
Bathurst	[89]
Blue Mountains	[84]
Botanical Gardens	[82]
Bullock Team on Blue Mountains (illus)	[94]
Bush Hut (illus)	[95]
Bushrangers	[89]
Cottage, Mount Victoria (illus)	[86]
Education Act, The, Amended	[92]
Excise Act	[92]
Falls, The Weatherboard (illus)	[87]
Great Goat Sucker, The	[90]
Harbour (illus)	[80]
Hartley Vale, Descent to (illus)	[88]
Harvest on New Year’s Day	[95]
Hotels, Primitive	[84]
Laughing Jackass, The (illus)	[90]
Lithgow	[88]
Manufacturing Concern, Largest in Colony	[107]
Oysters	[83]
— on Trees	[84]
Political Situation	[92]
Saw Mills, Steam	[108]
Sheep Runs	[95]
Southerly Buster, A	[83]
Sydney to Melbourne Overland	[94], [100]
Albury	[98]
Ants	[96]
Axles, Imported	[108]
Bush, The	[96]
Carriage Furniture, Imported	[108]
Drought of Ten Months’ duration	[113]
Endurance of Post-horses	[98]
Euroa	[100]
Free Trade at	[108]
Germanton	[96]
Hay, Price of	[113]
Hudson Brothers (Limited)	[108]
Industry, A Native, Created	[108]
Jerra Jerra	[96]
Kelly’s Exploits at Euroa	[100]
Magpies, Large	[96]
Railway Rolling Stock Manufacturers	[108]
Rain, Downpour of	[114]
River Murray	[99]
Royal Mail	[96]
Sheep, Loss of	[114]
Shipping during last thirty years	[109]
Sighing for Old England	[97]
Snakes	[97]
Springs, Imported	[108]
Timber, Native Better than Imported	[108]
Tommy, a youthful Driver	[98]
Town, An Up-country (illus)	[98]
Vineyards	[99]
Wagga Wagga	[95], [96]
Wheels, Imported	[108]
Wodonga	[99]
Sydney to San Francisco	[113], [132]
Tasmania	[75]
Farms large in size	[75]
Good Roads	[75]
Hawkers	[76]
Mount Wellington (illus)	[76]
River Derwent	[75]
The Rabbit and the Thistle	[75]
Teneriffe (illus)	[7]
Travelling by Rail and Ship compared	[1]
Tree Ferns	[52], [56]
Tristan d’Acunha, Island of	[36]
Tropical Heat	[8], [24]
— Phosphorescence	[33]
Tropics, In the (illus)	[40]
Turtles	[18]
United States	[169]
Americans would Become our Competitors	[176]
Artisans (American) not Better Off than British	[176]
— Wages and Holidays	[174]
Baggage Arrangements Convenient	[171]
— Described	[171]
Books Dear	[170]
Cabmen Disgusted	[171]
Cadgers, In England such Men would be Called	[176]
Calicoes Consigned to England	[173]
Charges Simply Monstrous	[170]
Children without Shoes and Stockings	[177]
Climate more Trying than that of England	[174]
— of America Exhausting	[176]
Competition Become Exceedingly Fierce	[175]
Considerably Sold	[178]
Corruption among Officials	[169]
Cotton Mill Operatives from Germany, etc.	[175]
Dear America	[170]
Dinner, Charge for a Plain	[170]
Engine, The Largest, in the World	[172]
Exhibition, The Centennial, Philadelphia	[169], [171]
Exports Limited by Protection	[175]
Factory Operatives’ Wages Lower than in Lancashire	[174]
Fair Trade Agitation	[174]
Fortunes, Colossal, Built up under Protection	[176]
Freedom for Tongue and Foot	[177]
Free Trade and Wages	[174]
— not an Unmixed Blessing	[176]
— under, Wider Distribution of Material Comfort	[176]
Holidays Fewer than in England	[174]
Hours of Labour Longer than in England	[176]
— Longer than in Lancashire	[174]
Improvements (so-called) in Manufactures	[172]
Labour, Honest, Avoided	[176]
Liquor Traffic Presents Many Difficulties	[177]
Living, Cost of, Higher than in England	[174]
Loafers Numerous	[176]
Negro Labour does not Flood the Markets	[177]
Newspaper Inferior and Dear	[170]
New York	[169]
Officials, Corruption among	[169]
Over-production	[173]
Philadelphia	[171]
Protection, An Argument for	[173]
— and Wages	[174]
— Doomed	[175]
— Wages Steadily Declining under	[176]
Railway Charges Moderate	[171]
Rich, but Honest	[169]
Slave Experiences	[177]
Something Hot	[178]
Steamboat Charges Moderate	[171]
Sunday Traffic Perplexing	[177]
Teetotal Lecture, A Regular	[178]
Temperance Lecture, The First, they had Heard	[178]
Tools, Inferior	[172]
Wages Higher, but Balanced by Extra Cost of Living	[176]
— Higher, not a Full Equivalent	[176]
— Lower than in 1860	[174]
— Steadily Declining under Protection	[176]
— with Free Trade and Protection	[174]
Victoria (see also Melbourne)	[101]
Agricultural Industries not Protected	[105]
— Heavily Taxed	[105]
Artisans Attracted to New South Wales	[109]
Books, Can Produce Her Own	[104]
Cabby Overrides the Tramway	[103]
Country Districts Sparsely Populated	[101]
Customs, Revenue, Stationary	[110]
Depression of Building Trade at Melbourne	[102]
Dog Subsisting on His Own Tail	[102]
Duty on Imports Demanded	[103]
Exhibition at Melbourne why Decided on	[102]
Exports, Increase of	[110]
Fiscal Policy, Vicious	[105]
Food, Taxation of, not Permitted	[105]
Free Trade—the Argus	[104]
— for Raw Materials	[103]
Government, Quite Right to Cheat the	[106]
Immigration, Grants in Aid of	[105]
Imported Manufactures Heavily Taxed	[101]
Imports, Increase of	[110]
Laws, Evasion of, by Protectionists	[106]
Locomotives Costly	[104]
— Required	[104]
Manufacturer’s Profit not quite enough	[104]
Manufacturers Require Larger Field	[105]
Minerals, Home Demand for, Small	[105]
— Mainly Exported	[105]
Mining Industries not Protected	[105]
— Machinery Heavily Taxed	[105]
Native Industry, In Interests of	[104]
Natural Resources Neglected	[102]
New South Wales, Contrasted with	[107]
Population Concentrated in Large Towns	[101]
— Increase of, in Ten Years	[110]
— (Manufacturing) Growing Faster than its Customers	[102]
— not Retained	[101]
— Larger, a Great Want	[105]
— Room for Larger	[105]
Prices sufficiently High	[104]
Printed Books should be more Heavily Taxed	[104]
Printing Materials, Suggestion to Tax	[104]
Protected Industries for a Limited Time	[103]
— Manufacturers not Happy	[106]
Protection Demanded by Manufacturers	[102]
— Effect on Money	[106]
— in its most Pronounced Form	[101]
Protectionist Newspapers	[103]
Railway Stores	[105]
Shipping—Repairing Yards Removed to New South Wales	[109]
Tramways Opposed by Cabmen	[103]
Tariff Revision Committee	[103]
Working Classes Jealous of Competition	[105]
Work, Legislature Expected to Supply	[102]
Workpeople very Independent	[107]
Voyage, Author’s First, to Australia	[5]
Waterspout	[119]
Water, Thoughts when Under	[121]
White Squall, The	[35]
Yankee Journalist described	[129]
Yankee’s Inquiry	[128]

NOTES.

[226] In a former chapter I gave an account of a voyage to Australia by way of the Cape of Good Hope. On a subsequent visit to the Colonies I went by the Canal route, returning through Egypt overland.

[259a] It is understood that the Khedive’s English financial adviser is about to take in hand the case of the Fellaheen versus the Usurers. It may aid him to know how a similar state of things in a neighbouring country was dealt with about 2000 years ago.

“Lucullus, Roman general, in his wars against Mithridates, having occupied many cities in Asia which had long been a prey to tax-farmers and usurers, undertook to relieve the people from the extreme misery to which they had been reduced, and set about redeeming the properties given as security to the rapacious money-lenders. He first greatly reduced the rate of interest; secondly, where the interest exceeded the principal he struck it off. He then ordered that the creditor should receive the fourth part of the debtor’s income, but if in making his claim any creditor had added the interest to the principal, it was utterly disallowed. By these means, in the, space of four years, all debts were paid, and the lands returned to the rightful owners.”—Plutarch’s Lives.

[259b] Report of Mr. Villiers Stuart, M.P., to Lord Dufferin on “The Social and Economical Condition of the People.”