Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . FEMALE ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN. became a new land and has yet a great place to fill amongthe nations of the earth. Civilized man with the history ofthe ages behind him, was able to make the desert blossom asthe rose ; to store the water of the wet season for the exi-gencies of the dry ; to find in the nutritious buffalo grass thebest fodder in all the world for his sheep, and to discover inthe bowels of the earth the richest stores of gold that haveever been unearthed since the days of King Solomon
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . FEMALE ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN. became a new land and has yet a great place to fill amongthe nations of the earth. Civilized man with the history ofthe ages behind him, was able to make the desert blossom asthe rose ; to store the water of the wet season for the exi-gencies of the dry ; to find in the nutritious buffalo grass thebest fodder in all the world for his sheep, and to discover inthe bowels of the earth the richest stores of gold that haveever been unearthed since the days of King Solomon. H PERPLEXING TO Where savages could not live the Englishman has built someof the most magnificent cities on the surface of the globe;where the poor bushmen grew thin and emaciated, withscarcely strength or spirit left to spear a kangaroo, the Eng-lishman has grown stout and healthy, hearty and happy,and is founding a new nation which will surely be in thefuture ages the greater Britain. When one first comes to Australia many things strikehim as being strange and out of place, but he soon begins to ask whether possibly his notionsand ideas are not at fault, andnot the country, and whether heis not carrying his traditional pre-judices around with him. Why,for instance, should not the treesput forth their buds and leavesin September instead of in April ?It looks odd enough at firstwhen the traveler reaches Australian shores after the scorch-ing days of midsummer and the early breezes of fall havebegun to blow, to find that summer is not behind him butbefore him, that it is not autumn, but spring ; that
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