. 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. rse-collar story. Of course everybody wanted tohear it, and he complied with thegeneral wish. You all know that soon afterthe discovery of gold in Victoriathe country was infested with bush-rangers, or highwaymen, who madeit very unsafe to travel with gold-dust or other valuable man was liable to hear the orderto bail up! at any moment,
. 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. rse-collar story. Of course everybody wanted tohear it, and he complied with thegeneral wish. You all know that soon afterthe discovery of gold in Victoriathe country was infested with bush-rangers, or highwaymen, who madeit very unsafe to travel with gold-dust or other valuable man was liable to hear the orderto bail up! at any moment, and find a gun or pistol levelled at he obeyed with alacrity and threw his hands in the air, he wasin great danger of having a bullet through him. Very often it happenedthat an armed man would be taken unawares, and though he had a riflein his hand or a pistol at his belt, there was no chance to make use ofthe weapon. Sometimes two or three bush-rangers would stick up astage-coach; while one watched the passengers, ranged along the road-side, and kept them within range of a revolver, and perhaps two re-volvers, another searched them and took possession of their valuables. Gold was sent down from the mines under a Government escort. BUSH-RANGER OUT OF LUCK. ADVENTURE WITH A HORSE-COLLAR. 399 to protect it from the bush-rangers, and of course a heavy charge Avasmade for the service. Various devices were adopted to foil the rascalsby those who undertook to transport their own treasure. Men concealed their gold in their clothing or about their wagons,and one smart fellow put nearly a hundred ounces inside a horse-collar,which was worn by the single horse drawing a dray containing a fewbundles of clothing and other insignificant things. He got along all right for the first two days, and on the thirdbegan to feel entirely safe. While he was jogging along the road hewas overtaken by a man who said the police were after him on account
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