CHAPTER VI.

Missionaries Obstruct Business — The Sugar Planter and the Kanaka — The Planter's View — Civilizing the Kanaka — The Missionary's View — The Result — Repentant Kanakas — "Wrinkles — The Death Rate in Queensland 83

CHAPTER VII.

The Fiji Islands — Suva — The Ship from Duluth — Going Ashore — Midwinter in Fiji — Seeing the Governor — Why Fiji was Ceded to England — Old time Fijians — Convicts among the Fijians — A Case Where Marriage was a Failure — Immor- tality with Limitations 91

CHAPTER VIII.

A Wilderness of Islands — Two Men without a Country — A Naturalist from New Zealand — The Fauna of Australasia — Animals, Insects, and Birds — The Ornithorhyncus — Poetry and Plagiarism . . . . _ 99

CHAPTER IX.

Close to Australia — Porpoises at Night — Entrance to Sydney Harbor — The Loss of the Duncan Dunbar — The Harbor — The City of Sydney — Spring-time in Australia — The Climate — Information for Travelers — The Size of Australia — A Dust- Storm and Hot Wind " 109

CHAPTER X.

The Discovery of Australia — Transportation of Convicts — Disci- pline — English Laws, Ancient and Modern — Flogging Prison- ers to Death — Arrival of Settlers — New South Wales Corps — Rum Currency — Intemperance Everywhere — $100,000 for One Gallon of Rum — Development of the Country — Immense Resources 119

CHAPTER XI.

Hospitality of English-speaking People — Writers and their Grati- tude — Mr. Gane and the Panegyrics — Population of Sydney — An English City with American Trimming — ' ' Squatters " — Palaces and Sheep Kingdoms — Wool and Mutton — Austra- lians and Americans — Costermonger Pronunciation — England is "Home" — Table Talk — English and Colonial Audiences 134

CHAPTER XII.

Mr. X. , a Missionary — Why Christianity Makes Slow Progress in ' India — A Large Dreary — Hindoo Miracles and Legends — Sampson and Hanuman — The Sandstone Ridge — Where are the Gates? 132