Australian heroes and adventurers . te, is immeasurably greaterthan could have been reasonably expected to followfor many years to come, had Burke and Willsreturned to enjoy the peaceful laurels they hadwon ? United in undying fame, all that was mortalof them now rests in the same hallowed grave. Wellwe know that neither storied urn or animated bustcan back to its mansion call the fleeting breath, Honours voice cannot, indeed, provoke the silent 6o Search Parties and Conclusion. dust; if it could, well might their dust breathe again,and be eloquent to-day. But what man can do hasnow been done.
Australian heroes and adventurers . te, is immeasurably greaterthan could have been reasonably expected to followfor many years to come, had Burke and Willsreturned to enjoy the peaceful laurels they hadwon ? United in undying fame, all that was mortalof them now rests in the same hallowed grave. Wellwe know that neither storied urn or animated bustcan back to its mansion call the fleeting breath, Honours voice cannot, indeed, provoke the silent 6o Search Parties and Conclusion. dust; if it could, well might their dust breathe again,and be eloquent to-day. But what man can do hasnow been done. There in the quiet cemetery will beplaced the storied urn. Here in the thronged citywe have raised the animated bust. It shall serve tounite also in honoured memory the names andeffigies—the very form and semblance of these nowcelebrated men, whose great exploit has shed suchlustre upon the records of exploration and discoveryin this our age, and engrafted so large a shareof interest and glory upon the earlier annals OLD TIMES ON THEGOLD-FIELDS, INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF The Ballarat Rebellion I Old Times on the Gold-Fields. Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold-Bright and yellow, hard and cold. —Tom Hood. CHAPTER I. THE CONVICTS STRATAGEM. THE earliest discoverer of gold in Australia isunknown to fame. Probably he was one ofthat class of colonists whom Barrington, the pick-pocket, poet, and historian, describes in the oft-quotedcouplet:— True patriots we, for be it understood,We left our Country for our Countrys good ; and who were employed on the roads of the colonyand on the selections of its settlers in doing the roughwork incidental to the opening of a new the first report of the existence of the preciousmetal we are indebted to the cunning of a convict, 64 The Convicfs Stratagem, who attempted to regain his hberty by the followingstratagem It is related by Governor Hunter in hisjournal of Transactions in the Colonies. In August17S8, a report was current in
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