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BUSH LIFE
IN
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE FIRST EDITION.
"Mr. Fergusson takes eminently correct views of men and things. A capital book for any one not too old to learn is this medley of farming and fighting, and courtship and self-help. Healthiness of thought and enjoyment of life run all through it."--Anti-Jacobin.
"A bright, clever, and exceedingly readable book, which is not only highly humorous, but which contains a great deal of useful information." --Newcastle Chronicle.
"A fascinating mixture of reality and romance."--Echo.
"The book gives in a very pleasant manner all the knowledge which the inquirer into the ordinary conditions of colonial life is likely to need."--Manchester Examiner.
"Brightly written, and abounds with adventures."--Journal of R. Col. Inst.
"An unvarnished tale of the ordinary daily occurrences of bush life."--Athenaeum.
"Mr. Fergusson is to be congratulated on telling a capital story which is brimful of adventures, and of a wholesome, manly, open-air tone which is very refreshing."--Melbourne Argus.
"Full of interest to the traveller or the novel reader."--Vanity Fair.
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BUSH LIFE
IN
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
BY
DUGALD FERGUSSON
(AN OLD COLONIST)
CHEAP EDITION
London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE, E.C.
1893
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BUTLER & TANNER,
THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS,
FROME, AND LONDON.
[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS.
I. ARRIVAL IN AUSTRALIA...... 1
II. WILD HORSE HUNT....... 7
III. ENGAGEMENT AS STATION MANAGER.... 18
IV. MEETING WITH THE LADIES..... 25
V. BENJAMIN LILLY........ 32
VI. WILD DOG CHASE....... 42
VII. LILLY AND BILL LAMPIERE..... 49
VIII. LILLY DISCOVERS LAMPIERE TO BE A POET..... 61
IX. WITH THE LADIES....... 65
X. A CANOE ACCIDENT....... 73
XI. A NEW CHARACTER INTRODUCED TO THE READER........ 80
XII. DISCOVERY OF A MURDERED BLACK FELLOW IN THE SCRUB......... 88
XIII. THE FREE FIGHT........ 99
XIV. LILLY'S FEAT IN BULLOCK DRIVING.... 107
XV. THE FESTIVE PARTY AND LILLY'S DAMPER....... 115
XVI. PICNIC AT THE LAKE, AND CATTLE MUSTER...... 120
XVII. A CORROBOREE AT THE BLACKS' CAMP....... 129
XVIII. DEPARTURE OF MY CHRISTMAS VISITORS......... 136
XIX. "BAIL UP." IDENTIFICATION OF A BUSHRANGER.......... 140
XX. A MORAL DISCOURSE WITH A BUSHRANGER........ 147
XXI. A STARTLING DISCOVERY....... 155
XXII. A POETICAL HUTKEEPER........ 159
XXIII. THE BACK COUNTRY AND TOM CRAWFORD'S STORY.......... 176
XXIV. LAMBING OPERATIONS......... 188
XXV. TROUBLE WITH THE BLACKS.......... 194
XXVI. CONFLICT WITH THE BLACKS........ 207
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XXVII. LAMPIERE RECOVERS FROM HIS WOUND....... 220
XXVIII. A SUDDEN CHANGE OF PROSPECTS........ 226
XXIX. ARRIVAL AND SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND........ 230
XXX. TWO NEW CHARACTERS ARE INTRODUCED TO THE READERS....... 241
XXXI. A CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE LAKE...... 244
XXXII. AN ATTEMPTED MURDER FRUSTRATED...... 250
XXXIII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING....... 256
XXXIV. A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE...... 267
XXXV. THE DRUNKEN FIGHT........ 273
XXXVI. A STARTLING DISCOVERY....... 284
XXXVII. A BUSHRANGER'S PLOT....... 290
XXXVIII. CONFLICT WITH BUSHRANGERS...... 297
XXXIX. DEATH OF THE BUSHRANGERS...... 309
XL. A RETROSPECTIVE LIFE SKETCH..... 319
XLI. MEETING WITH RACHEL....... 321
XLII. DUNEDIN.......... 334
XLIII. A GENEROUS OFFER....... 338
XLIV. HAPPY MEETINGS....... 341
XLV. FORTUNE AT LAST....... 352
XLVI. CONCLUDING REMARKS...... 359
