Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . afternoon of August 29 we got sight of the evening we saw the lighthouse on Kangaroo Island ;followed by dolphins we navigated through InvestigatorStraits, and on the afternoon of the next day we anchoredoutside Port Adelaide. As it was raining, we contentedourselves with viewing the town from the distance. Oureyes involuntarily rested on a number of chimneys, anevidence of extensive manufactories. I ADELAIDE 3 What most interested me here was the Botanical Garden,which


Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . afternoon of August 29 we got sight of the evening we saw the lighthouse on Kangaroo Island ;followed by dolphins we navigated through InvestigatorStraits, and on the afternoon of the next day we anchoredoutside Port Adelaide. As it was raining, we contentedourselves with viewing the town from the distance. Oureyes involuntarily rested on a number of chimneys, anevidence of extensive manufactories. I ADELAIDE 3 What most interested me here was the Botanical Garden,which I visited the same day. The weather was splendid,the rays of the sun were reflected in large ponds, where thewater-fowl were swimming among papyrus and Babylonianweeping-willows. The parrots chattered in their cages, anddisplayed their brilliant plumage; the birds sang in thecultivated bushes of the garden, and the frogs croaked withthat harsh, strong note, which seems especially developed intropical lands. There was a life, a throng, an assemblage ofdazzling colours, which could not but make a deep impression. FLINDERS STREET, ADELAIDE. on a person whose eyes for a hundred days had seen nothingbut sky and water. This fine garden contains forty-five acres, and is excel-lently managed by Dr. R. Schomburgk, celebrated for histravels in British Guiana. In the palm-house, built of glassand iron, are found tropical plants. The most beautiful andmost imposing part of the park is the so-called garden ofroses, a large square enclosure surrounded by garlands oftastefully-arranged climbing roses. Here is an abundanceof varieties, beginning with the tallest rose-bushes and endingwith the smallest dwarf-roses, and the colours vary from themost dazzling white to the darkest red or almost black. AMONG CANNIBALS CHAP. Among the trees familiar to me in this park were analder and a birch. They stood very modestly, just puttingforth their leaves in company with grand magnolias in f^


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