United States or Cyprus ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
So that, while the whole of New Holland is an interesting country from its natural peculiarities, and even the desolate portion of it adds, by its very desolation, a deep interest to the adventures of those persons who have had the courage to attempt to explore it; yet the chief prospects of Australia's future importance seem to be confined to its line of coast, no narrow limits in an island so extensive.
Sydney girls are frequently mistaken for New Yorkers, while Bostonian ladies are as often claimed to be Englishwomen; and it is only the bush-reared girl at home with horse, gun, and stock-whip, able to bake the family bread, make her own dresses, take her brother's or father's place out of doors in an emergency, while at the same time competent to grace a drawing-room and show herself conversant with the poets who can rightfully lay claim to be more typically Australia's than any other country's daughter.
I was talking a week or two ago with an old man, who, in Australia's earlier days, did a good deal of pioneering in the heart of the bush. 'Once, he told me, 'soon after I first came out, I really thought that I had reached the end of everything. I was hopelessly lost. My strength was utterly exhausted. I had gone as far as I could go.
Stuart also conducted some minor explorations before he undertook his greater one. He and McKinlay were South Australia's heroes, and are still venerated there accordingly. He died in England not long after the completion of his last expedition. We now come to probably the most melancholy episode in the long history of Australian exploration, relating to the fate of Burke and Wills.
It had got mashed pretty flat under the collapse of a land boom a while before." There it is again; picturesque history Australia's specialty. In 1829 South Australia hadn't a white man in it. In 1836 the British Parliament erected it still a solitude into a Province, and gave it a governor and other governmental machinery.
To them the vital question was: will the wily Russian Bear take its revenge by sending men-of-war to annihilate us and plunder the gold in our banks us, months removed from English aid? And the opinion was openly expressed that in casting off her allegiance to Great Britain, and becoming a neutral state, lay young Australia's best hope of safety.
Business came to a stand-still, for the Australian people had ears only for the far-off thunder of cannon, and their thoughts were occupied with the future. Huge open-air mass-meetings and innumerable demonstrations before the American consulates bore witness to Australia's honest sympathy. The time had arrived for the fifth continent to establish its political status in the council of nations.
The river was then called the Hume, but it was subsequently called the Murray by Captain Charles Sturt, who heads the list of Australia's heroes with the title of The Father of Australian Exploration.
"Look how pretty it looks, all the lights a-streamin' out the winders on the snow. Looks like a chromo ma used to have." But the young Wiggses were in no frame of mind to appreciate the picturesqueness of the scene. It was very cold, and even the prospect of the show was dimmed by the present discomfort. By and by Australia's sobs began anew. "What's the matter, honey?
He was once modest, even diffident; but he lost all that when he found out that he was Australia's sole musical bird. He has talent, and cuteness, and impudence; and in his tame state he is a most satisfactory pet never coming when he is called, always coming when he isn't, and studying disobedience as an accomplishment.
Word Of The Day