. 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. nificant, but it was nevertheless ariver navigable from Albury to the ocean, one thousand eight hundredmiles away. A steamboat lay at the bank of the river a short distance belowthe railway-bridge; it was not much of a boat in the way of luxury,but was well adapted to the work for which it was intended, and had abarge fastened behind it by a stron
. 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. nificant, but it was nevertheless ariver navigable from Albury to the ocean, one thousand eight hundredmiles away. A steamboat lay at the bank of the river a short distance belowthe railway-bridge; it was not much of a boat in the way of luxury,but was well adapted to the work for which it was intended, and had abarge fastened behind it by a strong tow-rope. Fred learned that therewere several boats engaged in the navigation of the Murray and itstributaries, but they were unable to run at all seasons of the year. Inordinary stages of water boats can reach Albury, but there are certainperiods of the year when they cannot do so. Some boys were sitting on the bank farther down the river, en-gaged in fishing with pole and line. Frank and Fred made their ac-quaintance, and examined the fish they had taken; the oldest of theboys, evidently much more intelligent than his companions, enlightenedthe strangers as to the piscatorial possessions of Australia. INTEKIOK NAVIGATION IN AUSTRALIA. 449. 29 4:50 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASL\.
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