Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . arkness and confusion of themoment. He had but a few seconds to work for the fusewas burning toward the explosive with frightful rapidity. Finding that he could not lay his hand upon the lastcharge, he drew his senseless companion into a niche in therock, shielded him as far as possible from the flying frag-ments, and waited the dreadful moment of the ever a man placed in a position of more awful ex-pectancy ? Did ever a braver soul court death for the sakeof saving a fellow-man ? T
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . arkness and confusion of themoment. He had but a few seconds to work for the fusewas burning toward the explosive with frightful rapidity. Finding that he could not lay his hand upon the lastcharge, he drew his senseless companion into a niche in therock, shielded him as far as possible from the flying frag-ments, and waited the dreadful moment of the ever a man placed in a position of more awful ex-pectancy ? Did ever a braver soul court death for the sakeof saving a fellow-man ? The fearful explosion came. Themine was filled Avith suffocating fumes, the rocks flew inevery direction, but, strange to say, neither of these menwere killed. They were bruised and cut, and much shakennervously, as can be imagined, but the brave deliverer wasable to crawl to the bucket again when the explosion wasover and to carry his wounded friend with him, and bothwere hoisted into Gods sunlight again. With all our hearts we agree with our guides remark: That man must have been a Christian!. CHAPTER VI. THE CRUISE OF THE GHINGTU—A^. INTERESTING VOYAGEIN STRANGE COMPANY —IN THE GOLD FIELDS OFAUSTRALIA. Beginning Our Log-book — Mrs. Pilgrims Resolve — The Ghingtu — AUnique and Unusual Journey — Our Steamer — Our Stewards —Loast Beef, Olange Flittels and Lice Cakes — Preparing forHot Weather — Our Fellow Passengers — Life in the Steerage — See and his Wives — Mrs. Ah See Number One — Photographingthe Family —The Ruler of the Roost —The Black Fellows —Ce-lestials Returning Home — Taking Home Their Own Bones — TheChinaman at Dinner — A Race of Squatters — The Fan-tan Layout—Chinese Passion for Gambling — Within the Barrier Reef—WhiteMan, He too Salt — Glittering Gold Fields — How Gold was Discov-ered in Australia— Nash and His Find — Welcome Strangers —Gold on Brogans — The Romance of the Morgan Mine — A Visit fr
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