enough to fill our bucket and the boat's
baler. As perhaps my readers may be tempted to wonder why the bees did
not attack the naked hide of the robber who was thus rudely despoiling
them, I must state that the wild Australian bee is stingless. It is a
harmless little insect, not much larger than the common house-fly, and
though it produces abundance of honey and wax, it has not been
subjected to domestication, and from its diminutive proportions and its
habit of building on very high trees, probably never will be. The
English bee has been most successfully introduced into Queensland; and
many of the farms in the neighbourhood of Brisbane make a good thing
out of their honey and wax.

A meeting was held the next day, at which it was agreed that all
further search would be useless, and, indeed, I am certain that every
possible measure had been attempted for the discovery of the missing
men. There seems every reason to think that the ill-fated 'Eva' was
sunk in the cyclone. Most likely she went down in deep water, and all
on board her were drowned. Such was the supposition that received most
favour at the time, and with it we must rest content until the great
day when all secrets are revealed.

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