silver-fields

Updated: May 15, 2025

Godfrey, a son of one of the leading Sydney families, had started life in an insurance office, but soon finding that he was not cut out for city life, went on to a Queensland cattle-station, where he gained as varied a knowledge of bush life as any could wish for; tiring of breeding and fattening cattle for somebody else's benefit, he joined the rush to the Tasmanian silver-fields and there he had the usual ups and downs now a man of wealth, and now carrying his load of bacon and oatmeal through the jungle on the steep Tasmanian mountains.

David Wynford Carnegie - Spinifex and Sand