. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. of Queensland yielded 4,840,221 ounces ofgold, valued at not far from $80,000,000. But we are forgetting Frank and Fred in our contemplation of thesedry statistics. Here is what Frank wrote concerning their visit toGympie: We came here partly by rail and partly by coach, the railway fromBrisbane to Gympie not being completed, though perhaps it wil
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. of Queensland yielded 4,840,221 ounces ofgold, valued at not far from $80,000,000. But we are forgetting Frank and Fred in our contemplation of thesedry statistics. Here is what Frank wrote concerning their visit toGympie: We came here partly by rail and partly by coach, the railway fromBrisbane to Gympie not being completed, though perhaps it will be by FROM BRISBANE TO GYMPIE. 415 the time this is in print, if it should ever have such good-fortune. It isone hundred and sixteen miles from Brisbane to Gympie, and sixty-onefrom here to Maryborough. The town is prettily situated on the sideof a range of hills on the river Mary; it has handsome public buildings,and bears every evidence of prosperity. It has a School of Arts, a publiclibrary, and other institutions not always to be found in mining towns,and altogether deserves the good name that it bears. It has a popula-tion of nearly eight thousand in the municipality alone, and there arefour thousand more in the immediate QUARTZ-MILL IN THE GOLD-MINES. There are the usual paraphernalia of the mining industry, whichwe have already described in other places. In every direction there aremining-shafts and reduction-works, and for miles and miles around thecountry is full of prospecting holes, where gold has been sought but notfound, at least in paying quantities. The first rush here was for thealluvial diggings, and large amounts of gold were taken out by the earlycomers. We were much interested in hearins: about the adventures of Mr. 416 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. ISTash, the discoverer of the gold-diggings here. He had been an unsuc-cessful prospector for twenty years, had gone through all kinds of pri-vations, narrowly escaped death at the hands of
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