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A GALLOP
TO
THE ANTIPODES,
RETURNING
OVERLAND THROUGH INDIA.
BY
DR. JOHN SHAW ,
Fellow of the Geological and Linnaean Societies of London, and the Botanical of Edinburgh.
Author of "Rambles in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies;"
"A Tramp to the Diggings;" "Travel, and Recollections of Travel," &c.
"If Life's a voyage, then let us travel."
LONDON:
J. F. HOPE, 16, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1858.
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[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Preliminaries of the Voyage................................ 1
CHAPTER II.
Emigration.............................................. 10
Government Rules and Regulations for Emigrants ............ 19
Dietary Scale for Emigrant Ships............................ 25
CHAPTER III.
Voyage to Melbourne...................................... 28
CHAPTER IV.
Melbourne........................................... 53
CHAPTER V.
Diggers and the Diggings.................................. 92
CHAPTER VI.
Voyage from Melbourne to New Zealand .................... 125
CHAPTER VII.
An Excursion from Wellington to Queen Charlotte's Sound.... 129
CHAPTER VIII.
Journey from Queen Charlotte's Sound to Cloudy Bay and Port Underwood..............139
CHAPTER IX.
Journey from the Wairau to Giggerigoo Sheep Station.......... 155
CHAPTER X.
From the Wairau to the Town of Nelson .................... 165
Nelson Diggings.......................................... 169
Wanganui................................................ 180
CHAPTER XI.
Voyage from Wanganui to Wellington........................ 183
Wellington .............................................. 185
CHAPTER XII.
Aborigines of New Zealand ................................ 192
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CHAPTER XIII.
Habits and Manners of the Settlers.......................... 199
Politics.................................................. 206
CHAPTER XIV.
Natural History of the Antipodes............................ 216
Literature................................................ 221
CHAPTER XV.
Voyage from Wellington to Sydney......................... 228
Sydney .................................................. 229
CHAPTER XVI.
Voyage from Sydney to Calcutta ............................ 236
CHAPTER XVII.
Calcutta................................................... 246
CHAPTER XVIII.
India.................................................... 282
CHAPTER XIX.
Judicial Reforms of India.................................. 314
Cotton .................................................. 330
Literature in India........................................ 332
Board of Control.......................................... 334
Christianity in India ...................... 336
Concluding Remarks upon India............................. 339
CHAPTER XX.
Voyage from Calcutta to Suez .............................. 351
Pointe de Galle, in the Island of Ceylon...................... 353
Aden................................................... 355
The Red Sea............................................... 359
Suez and the Desert ...................................... 360
The Desert .............................................. 362
Cairo.................................................... 365
Alexandria .............................................. 372
Malta.................................................... 375
Gibraltar ................................................ 378
CHAPTER XXI.
Gibraltar to England .......................................384
Cadiz.................................................... 385
Lisbon .................................................. 386
Vigo .................................................... 389
