. 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. rling Downs, and our friends were over-whelmed with invitations from the hospitable squatters who inhabitthat region, Fred said the invitations would have enabled them tospend a year there, and even then hewas confident their welcome would notbe worn out. Wherever they wentthey were comfortably lodged and wellcared for, and they were unanimousin d
. 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. rling Downs, and our friends were over-whelmed with invitations from the hospitable squatters who inhabitthat region, Fred said the invitations would have enabled them tospend a year there, and even then hewas confident their welcome would notbe worn out. Wherever they wentthey were comfortably lodged and wellcared for, and they were unanimousin declaring that the world containedmany worse places than the DarlingDowns, even among those that wereclassed as highly attractive. Frank considered the flies and oth-er creeping and winged things a greatdrawback to existence in that region. They have mosquitoes and sand-flies in certain localities, said he, while others are entirely free from them; but as for the common fly,he is everywhere and is a first-class nuisance. On the coast the fliesare said to be troublesome only for a few months in the year, but inthe interior they are perennial, and sometimes almost make life a bur-den. They are worse at some periods than at others, but bad enough. AN AUSTRALIAN PEST. 408 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. at all times. In the worst fly-time nobody ventures to ride aboutwithout wearing a veil; and men have taxed their ingenuity to keepthe pests out of their houses, but practically without success. Fleas are also abundant, though not as much so as flies; neitherare they seen as much in public. They abound most in sandy places,and the sundowners transport them from one station to another free ofcharge. A more welcome insect is the common honey-bee; it has longbeen acclimatized in Australia, and owing to the great number of hone}-bearing flowers, it has become very abundant. Bee-farming is an impor-tant industry in New South Wales, and is carried on to quite an extentin the other colon
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