The Five Threes--33,333 Miles by Land and Se
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ISBN13: 9780217586191
Paperback|9780217586191
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. New South Waives And Fiji. Splendid Sunset?A long Ride?New South Wales?Sydney and its Environs?Lighthouse at the Heads?Botany Bay?The Blue Mountains?Commodore Goodenough?Swearing?Drinking? Chinese? Ignorance of Colony at Home?Voyage to Fiji?Description of the Colony?Coral Reef?Fijians?Crabs?Houses?Native Church? Copra Industry?Uses of the Cocoanut?Sandal Wood?Beche-de- met?Boiling Springs ? Labour?Maiming ? Crime?Prisoners? Native Drink?Taxation?Lala?Chiefs?Native Dishes?Land Crabs ?Vegetables ? Gratitude?King Cakobau?Wai Canoes?Whales' Teeth?Legends?Brother and Sister?Hospital?Washing?Farewell to the King?Fijian climate. June 2$tk (Sunday).?Coaches only run at intervals to Narrandera, so am up at five a.m., and after a good breakfast and warm before the fire make a start. The sun the evening before had set in a sea of crimson glory impossible to describe. From the coach we see it rise bathed in the most delicate lemon colour. I must say of some of the sunsets seen here that they are indescribably beautiful. The only fairly comfortable way of riding is to stand upright, clutch the sides of the coach, and attempt to swing in the same way as the cabin table of a yacht would do in a heavy storm, putting one's head out of the window, and carefully viewing the track; the same seemed fairly good. A seat might perhaps be kept for a time, but these intervals, like angels' visits, were few and far between. On the plains are seen flocks of turkey, emu, native companion, etc. Arriving at Narrandera, a ticket is taken for Sydney, some three hundred and twenty miles further on. Travelling all night, we reach our destination at seven a.m., after a fatiguing journey of twenty-five hours'New South Wales. 65 duration. Bredalbane is the greatest height we attain o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217586191 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217586198 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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