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The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
By Thomas Wallace Knox
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- The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Land of the Kangaroo, by Thomas Wallace Knox, Illustrated by H. Burgess
- E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)
- CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO.
- CHAPTER I.
- WEST COAST OF AFRICA—ADVENTURE IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN.
- CHAPTER II.
- THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—THE SOUTHERN OCEAN—AUSTRALIA.
- CHAPTER III.
- A LAND OF CONTRADICTIONS—TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA.
- CHAPTER IV.
- STRANGE ADVENTURES—AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS.
- CHAPTER V.
- ACROSS AUSTRALIA—TALLEST TREES IN THE WORLD.
- CHAPTER VI.
- AUSTRALIAN BLACKS—THROWING THE BOOMERANG.
- CHAPTER VII.
- ADELAIDE TO MELBOURNE—THE RABBIT PEST—DANGEROUS EXOTICS.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CANNIBAL BLACKS—MELBOURNE AND ITS PECULIARITIES.
- CHAPTER IX.
- “THE LAUGHING JACKASS”—AUSTRALIAN SNAKES AND SNAKE STORIES.
- CHAPTER X.
- THE HARBOR OF MELBOURNE—CONVICT HULKS AND BUSHRANGERS.
- CHAPTER XI.
- GEELONG—AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINES—FINDING A BIG NUGGET.
- CHAPTER XII.
- A SOUTHERLY BURSTER—WESTERN VICTORIA.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- JOURNEY UP COUNTRY—ANECDOTES OF BUSH LIFE.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- LOST IN THE BUSH—AUSTRALIAN HORSES.
- CHAPTER XV.
- EXPERIENCES AT A CATTLE STATION—A KANGAROO HUNT.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- HUNTING THE EMU AND OTHER BIRDS—AN AUSTRALIAN SHEEP RUN.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY—CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- SIGHTS OF SYDNEY——BOTANY BAY AND PARAMATTA.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- COAL MINES AT NEWCASTLE—SUGAR PLANTATION IN QUEENSLAND—THE END.
- CHAPTER I.
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