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Updated: May 3, 2025
The immense garnishing of strawberries, however, now in season though extremely agreeable reminds us that Christmas at the Antipodes must necessarily differ in many respects from Christmas in England. The morning after Christmas Day saw me on board the steamer 'Raugatira, advertised to start for Sydney at eleven.
Generally speaking, the squatters are young men who, rather than be a burthen on their families, have sought their fortunes in distant lands, and carried out with them almost to the Antipodes the finest principles and feelings of their forefathers.
"You took me by surprise," he said. "I didn't know you were in England." "I only landed two days ago," answered Gilbert, as they shook hands. "I daresay I startled you a little, dear old fellow, coming in upon you without a moment's notice, when you fancied I was at the Antipodes. But, you see, I hunted you up directly I was free." "You have done well out yonder, I hope, Gilbert?"
Both take pleasure in reading various authors and certain books which have fallen by chance into their hands, works treating of the vast regions hitherto unknown to the world, and of the Occidental lands lying almost at the Antipodes which the Spaniards recently discovered.
Again, you may impose such import or export duties as will raise the revenue needed for the government of the territory, to be paid by all comers at its ports on a basis of absolute equality. In some places that is the British way. Henceforth, in the Philippines, that is the United States way. The Dingley tariff is not to be transferred to the antipodes.
Columbus was laughed to scorn by the so-called scientists of his day, who proved to their own satisfaction that if ships did succeed in getting down to the Antipodes over the side of the globe, it would be absolutely impossible for them to get up again!
"No," she answered, faintly and sadly; for Halifax was all the same to her heart as the Antipodes; equally inaccessible by humble penitent looks and maidenly tokens of love. "Well, he's there, however: he's putting up an engine for some folks there, for his master.
Sir Horatio Nelson was in pursuit, with the English vessels, and wrote to the First Lord of the Admiralty: 'Be they bound to the Antipodes, your lordship may rely that I will not lose a moment in bringing them to action.
Had she been made to know that he had gone away for ever, been banished to some antipodes from which he never could return, there would have been no lasting sorrow on her part, though there might have been some feeling which would have given her an ache for the moment.
The other two are habitable, one towards the south, the inhabitants of which are your antipodes, with whom you have no connection; the other, towards the north, is that which you inhabit, whereof a very small part, as you may see, falls to your share.
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