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Sydney.-Religion of Feelings.- Botanic Garden.-Collection of Vines.- Self

Examination.-Library of Friends' Books.-Destruction of Spirits -Discord

and Tale-bearing.-Temperance Lecture.-Scripture Lessons of the British

and Foreign School Society.-Voyage to Moreton Bay.-State of the Prison-

ers.-Effects of Spirit-drinking.--Afflictions.-Mount Warning, &c.—Arrival

in Moreton Bay.-Tree Oysters.-Arrival at Brisbane Town.

Moreton Bay.-Brisbane Town.- Gardens.-Tread-mill.-Swearing.-Plants,

&c.-Natives.-Prisoners.-Family Worship.-Trees, &c.-Plants, and Ani-

mals.-Female Prisoners.-Wood.-Destruction of Spirits.-Teredo.---Kan-

garoos, &c.-Birds.- Want of Bibles.-Absconders.-Aborigines.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Departure from Brisbane Town.-Plumbago.-Fishes and Birds.-Dugong.-

Stradbroke Island.-Amity Point.-Aborigines.- Penal Regulations.--More-

ton Island. Trees.-Crabs.-Amusements.-Huts.-Native Dogs.---Fish.-

Manufacture.--Mangroves, &c.-Animals.-Fight of Natives.--Mistake in the

Name of Biscuit.-Departure from Moreton Bay.-Storms.--Arrival at New-

castle.-- Native Guides.-Ebenezer.-Aborigines. -Amusement.- Missionary

Labours.-Civilization of the Blacks.-Amount of Native Population.-Forest.

-Remarkable Spring.-Gregarious Caterpillars.-Wages of Blacks

CHATTER XXXIV.

Sydney. Tidings of D. and C. Wheeler,-Aborigines in Towns.-Work of the

Spirit. Grant of a Burial Ground.--Reformed Prisoner.Wills.--Trial of

Blacks.- Bibles in Strange Tongues.- Meetings.-Voyage to Maitland.--

Drunkenness.-Scason.- Ironed Gangs.- Fossils.-Country.- Plants.--Ar-

thurs Vale.-Management of Prisoners.-St. Aubins." Prisoners of Aus

tralia.”—Plants.-Rain.-Sheep.-Snow.-Mount Wingen.- Objects of Curi-

osity. Return to Maitland.-Compass, &c.-Geology.-Cockfighters Bridge.

-Prisoners.-Bibles and Card Playing.- Small Congregations. Friends'

Principles. Self Delusion....

Maitland. Cedar Brushes.-Morpeth.-Retired Officer. Faithful Spanicl.--

Raymonds Terrace. Pottery.- Country.- Plants. Reformed Prisoner.--

Port Stephens.-Carrington.-Territory of the Australian Agricultural Com-

pany. Kurua River. -- Booral. Stroud. Stock. Land Speculations. ---

Blacks. Dingadec.- Wallaroba.-- Paterson.- Libraries. Maitland. New-

castle. Meetings.--Coal-works.-Voyage to Port Macquarie. Lake Cottage.

-Penal Establishment -Town.-Rocks.-Prisoners.--Wilson River.- Trees,

&c.-Rollins Plains.--Natives.--Sugar Canes.-Tacking Point Wood.

ticum grande.-State of Prisoners.-Return to Sydney...

Sydney. Plants.-Liverpool.-Hospital Patient.-State of Society.---Lansdowne

Bridge. Jail.-Male Orphan School.-Campbell Town. - Wretched Prison.

Fall of the Limb of a Tree. -Appin.-State of the Population.--Buli Road.

Illawarra.-Wollongong.-Five Islands.-Illawarra Lake.- Country. Pious

Cottager. Mountain Road. - Snake. Effects of Drunkenness.

Cabbage Palm, &c.-Dapto.-Marshall Mount.-Aborigines.-Parrots, &c.—

Kiama. Friends' Meetings.-Colomgatta.-Wattle Tick.-Plants.-Coluber

porphyryaceus.—Transmutation.-Stinging Trees. Snakes.-Black disposed

to Settle.-Want of Religious Instruction.-Implements of Blacks.-Cambe-

warra Mountains.- Kangaroo Ground.-Compassion.-Aborigines.-Journey

to Bong Bong...

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Bong Bong.-Berrima.-Trees and Birds.-Marulan.-Ironed-gang.-Towrang.

-Goulburn.-Hospital.-Goulburn Plains.-Menara Plains.-Sheep Feeding.

-Journey to Lumley.-Effects of Porter.-Aquatic Plants, &c.-Roads.-Tra-

velling. Penalties.-Arthurslee.-English Plants.-Wombat Brush. - White

Ants. Return to Throsby Park and Bong Bong.-Sheep Shearing.-Mitta-

gong.-Bargo Brush.-Drunkenness.-Jarvis Field.-Brownlowe Hill.-Hot

Winds.-Prisoner Shepherd.-Camden.-Seasons.-Hay.-Opossums.-Pur-

suits of Settlers.-Cobbity.-Influenza.-Winbourne.-Mulgoa.-Duneved.—

Milking Wild Cattle.-The Vineyard.-Parramatta.-Pennant Hills.-Kiss-

ing Point.-Lunatic Asylum.-Return to Sydney..

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Sydney. Married Emigrants.-High Wind.-Sudden Death.-Coach Travelling.

-Delusion.-Hot Wind, &c.-Meetings in Sydney.-Destitute New Zealanders.

-Visit to the Prisons in Sydney.-Hyde Park Barracks.-Carters Barracks.

-Tread-mill.-New Jail.-Tunnel from the Botany Bay Swamps.-Phoenix

Hulk.-Goat Island.-Address to the Prisoner Population.-Old Jail.-Colo-

nial Hospital.-Prisoner's Letter.-Benevolent Asylum.-Books, &c.-Oaths

and Affirmations.-Address to the Free Inhabitants..
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North Harbour.-Pumice-stone.-Animals, &c.-School and Temperance So-

cieties. Tidings of D. and C. Wheeler.-Report to the Governor.-Sense

of Unprofitableness.-Botany Bay. -La Perouse.-Circumnavigation.-But-

terflies.-Fishermen.-Silent Meetings.-Drunkenness.-Convict Servants.-

Arrival of D. and C. Wheeler.-Visit to the Governor.-Refraction.-Factory.

-Aborigines.-Elizabeth Macquarie.-Departure from N. S. Wales.-Voyage

to V. D. Land.-Jervis Bay.-Sheds, &c. of Aborigines.-Jelly-fish.-Storm.

-Lying to.-Albatross.-Arrival at Hobart Town....

Hobart Town.-State of the Meeting of Friends.—Sir John Franklin.—Party

Spirit. Temperance.-Pensioners.-J. Johnson.-Weight.-Aurora australis.

-Schools.-Infants at Meeting. Journey. -Improvements.- Kelvedon.—

Baptism for the Dead.-Drought.-Increase of Opossums, &c.-Affecting Acci-

dent. Gibbet. Launceston. - Barton.-Successful Emigrant.-Campbell

Town and Ross.-Frost.-Observations on Temperature.--Vale of Bagdad.-

Prisoners at Work.-Return to Hobart Town...

Hobart Town. Recording Ministers.-Conversion of a Unitarian.—Journey.—

Climate and Discases.-Hamilton.-Frost.-Falling-stars.-Stranded Whale.

-Birth-day.-Convict Discipline.-Captain Maconochic's System.-D. and C.

Wheeler.-Meeting Premises and Burial Ground.-Death of J. Johnson.—

New Norfolk. Sudden Death.-Affirmation Act.-Yearly Meeting.-Abo-

rigines on Flinders Island.-Sir John and Lady Franklin.-Dr. Foreman and

Female Prisoners.-Reformed Drunkard.-Departure from V. D. Land.. 480

Voyage to Port Phillip.-Passengers.-Mutton Birds.—Islands.—Port Phillip.

-Mission Station.-Effect of Fear upon a man bitten by a Serpent.-Indiffer-

ence.-Melbourne.-Business and Wages.-Aborigines.-Influence of Society.

-Esculent Roots.-Animals.-Country.-Natives' Baskets.-W. Buckley.—

Lyre Bird.-Wild Dog.-Sheep.

Voyage to South Australia.-Kings Island.--South Coast of Australia.-St.

Vincents Gulf. Holdfast Bay.-South Australia.-Adelaide.-Port Ade-

laide. Torrens River.-Country.-Drunkenness.-Fires.-Aborigines.-Un-

just Legislation. - - Religious Loss. Cruelty. — Geology, Vegetation, and

Entomology. Heat.-Departure

Voyage to King Georges Sound.-Kangaroo Island.-Danger of Landing in

Uninhabited Places.-Birds, &c.-King Georges Sound.-Albany.-Vegeta-

tion. Inebriety.-Indolence.-Aborigines.-Country.-Plants.- Cape Leeu-

win.-Voyage to the Swan River....

Swan River Settlement.-Freemantle.-Swan and Canning Rivers.--Perth.-

Visit to the Governor, &c.-Sentiments respecting the Aborigines.-Plain of

Quartania. Trial of a Black.-Country.- Shells, Fish, &c.-Temperature,

and Heated Sand.-Books, &c.-The Peninsula.-Guildford.-York District.

-Poisoning of Sheep.-Toogee Country.-Ruinous Effects of Rum.-Price

of Land. Revenue and Sources of Income.--Population.- Spirit Law.-

Fruits.-Upper Swan.-Customs of the Aborigines. -Neglect of Civilization.

-Meeting. Bush Fires.-Zamias.-Native Fair and Customs. . . . . . . .
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Swan River.-Drunkenness.-Fights of the Aborigines.-Temperance Meeting.

-Evils connected with the use of Spirits.-Explorators.-Weapons of the

Blacks.-Retribution.-Amount of Black Population, &c.-Jelly-fish.-Edu-

cation.-Visit of the Blacks.-Birds, &c.-Aurora australis.-Intemperance of

Seamen. Revenge and Expiation of Injuries among the Aborigines.--Em-

barkation.-Peaceful Retrospect. . . . .

Mistake respecting the falling back of the Aborigines. Contact of the

Australians with the Malays.-Belief in Spiritual Influence.-Conscientious-

ness. Superstitions.- Koin. Tippakalleun.- Kurrur-kurran.- Nungngun.

-Murramai.- - Sentiments respecting Death.-Traces of Ideas of a Fu-

ture State. Traditions respecting Creation and the Flood.-Australian Lan-

guage.-Evidence.-Importance of Inquests.- Change of Fecling toward

Aborigines. Importance of Christian Principle.--Aborigines Protection So-

ciety. Disappointment of Emigrants.-Causes of Unsettlement.-Needful

Considerations respecting Emigration....

A.-Certificates of J. Backhouse and G. W. Walker.

B.-A Concise Apology for the Peculiarities of the Society of Friends, commonly

called Quakers, in their Language, Costume, and Manners...
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C.-The Question, "Are Judicial Oaths Lawful?" Answered, with some Ob-

servations on the Moral Influence of Judicial Oaths...

D.-Remarks on the Indigenous Vegetable Productions of Tasmania, available

as food for man
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E. Extract from a Report, on the State of the Chain Gangs and Road Parties,

in Van Diemens Land ...
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F.-Report upon the State of the Prisoners in Van Diemens Land, with Remarks

upon the Penal Discipline, and Observations on the General State of the

Colony in 1834
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G.-Testimonials of Hobart Town Monthly Meeting of Friends, respecting the

Religious Labours of G. W. Walker

H. A Letter to Colonel Arthur, respecting Spirituous Liquors..

L.-An Address to the Prisoner Population of New South Wales and Van

M.-A Letter addressed to James Backhouse and George Washington Walker,

by a Convict confined on Goat Island, New South Wales...

N. A Christian Address to the Free Inhalte of New South Wales and Van

P.-Letters to the Governor of New South Wales respecting the Abori-

Q. An Epistle to persons attending the Meetings of Friends in Sydney.... cal

R. A Letter to Van Diemens Land Yearly Meeting of Friends

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Chart of the World, with the track of J. B. and G. W. W.

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Map of Tasmania or Van Diemens Land, with Do.*.

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Map of New South Wales,

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* In this map, the names of Counties are in open, Roman Capitals; those of Hundreds and Principal Places, in plain, Roman Capitals; and those of Parishes in Italic Capitals.

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