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"I don't know whether the Baron would be interested " "Immensely, my goot Tollyvoddle! Supremely! hugely! I could be interested to-night in a museum!" "The Baron's past life makes him a peculiarly catholic judge of indiscretions," said Essington. Thus reassured, Tulliwuddle began "You know I've an aunt who takes an interest in me wants me to collar an heiress and that sort of thing.
And I was satisfied that, by cautiously proceeding, and always reconnoitring in advance or on either side of our course, I should be able to conduct my party through a grassy and well watered route; and, if I were so fortunate as to effect this, I felt assured that the journey, once commenced, would be finished only by our arrival at Port Essington.
The BEAGLE then sailed to Booby Island, and from there to Victoria the settlement at Port Essington which they found in a comparatively flourishing state.
Close to the land these winds are not so constant, but take more the character of land and seabreezes, and the nights are mostly calm; this we found to be the case during part of the months of July and August, while at anchor in Port Essington. The general course of the winds during that period was as follows.
It is needless for me to recall to the recollection of those around me, the circumstances under which the project of undertaking an overland journey to Port Essington was formed.
During one of the last stages, we discovered a leguminous tree, with the dark fissured bark of the Ironbark, but with large bipinnate leaves, the leaflets oblong, an inch in length; the pods broad and thin, and two or three inches long: this tree is common all over the northern part of the continent, and was found growing abundantly around Victoria, the principal settlement of Port Essington. Mr.
Now, I’m plain Robert Welsh, whose uncles, as far as I am aware, don’t know a baronet among ’em.” He smiled a little sardonically. “And the baron at Fogelschloss,” said Twiddel. “Who insisted on learning my pedigree back to Alfred the Great! Gad, I gave it him, though, and I doubt whether the real Essington could have done as much.
I have myself always been most anxious to attempt to cross from Moreton Bay on the N. E. coast to Port Essington on the N. W. I believe that this journey is quite practicable, and I have no doubt that if judiciously conducted, and the country to the south of the line of route always examined, as far as that could be done, it would completely develop, in connection with what is already known, the character and formation of Australia, and would at once point out the most proper place from which subsequent expeditions ought to start in order finally to accomplish the passage across its interior from the north to the south.
It is much to be hoped that if Port Essington should ever become a place of much trade, that these people will be more civilized, as from the easy communication, in either monsoon, Timor Laut will be much frequented by the settlers at Port Essington, in order to procure the tropical productions abounding there, which they would not find on the Australian coasts.
"There's no use trying to play that game any longer Essington has muddled it somehow. Well, I'm free to do what I like now!" In this state of mind he found himself in the street, hailed the first hansom, and drove headlong from the dangerous regions of Belgravia.
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