Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . me 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 from aNative Bushman—Backy, Backy, Backy — White Ant Hills. 0 start fairly with our log-bookAve must tell you that theGhingtu sails from Melbourne toHong Kong, but that we di
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . me 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 from aNative Bushman—Backy, Backy, Backy — White Ant Hills. 0 start fairly with our log-bookAve must tell you that theGhingtu sails from Melbourne toHong Kong, but that we did notjoin her until she had plowed herway for a thousand miles alongthe waters of the Australiancoast, and had reached Brisbane,the capital of Queensland. Mrs. Pilgrim had declaredthat nothing would induce her togo a mile by water that could betraversed by land. So we had traveled by rail from Ade-laide to Melbourne, from Melbourne to Sydney, fromSydney to Brisbane, a long eighteen hundred miles in all;had attended most enthusiastic and long-to-be-remembered (115). 11G NOT AN EVERY-DAY JOURNEY. Christian Endeavor Conventions in all these cities; and onthe afternoon of October 22 were ready to embark on thetrim and staunch Chingtw, the magnificent steamer, asthe newspaper advertisements called her, of the China Navi-gation Company. I should hardly term her magnificent1 but she was anexceedingly comfortable vessel, and for three weeks affordedus a very restful and pleasant home after the labors of sixAveeks of continuous convention-going. Now before us is a voyage worth taking indeed. Noneof your every-day trips across the Atlantic that you canmake in the fraction of a week; none of your commonjaunts across the long ferry between San Francisco andHong Kong; but a unique and unusual journey is thiswithin the Great Barrier Reef, and through the marvelousMalay Archipelago, and the many seas and straits whichform the water-way between two of our five con
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