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Title: Peeps At Many Lands: Australia

Author: Frank Fox

Illustrator: Percy F. S. Spence (etc.)

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Language: English

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PEEPS AT MANY LANDS

AUSTRALIA

[Illustration: THE NOMAD OF THE AUSTRALIAN INTERIOR]

[Illustration: KANGAROO HUNTING. PAGE 47.]

PEEPS AT MANY LANDS
AUSTRALIA

BY

FRANK FOX

WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR

BY

PERCY F. S. SPENCE, ETC.

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1911

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I PAGE
AUSTRALIA, ITS BEGINNING 1

CHAPTER II
AUSTRALIA OF TO-DAY 15

CHAPTER III
THE NATIVES 33

CHAPTER IV
THE ANIMALS AND BIRDS 46

CHAPTER V
THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH 63

CHAPTER VI
THE AUSTRALIAN CHILD 73

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

KANGAROO-HUNTING _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
SNOWY MOUNTAINS NEAR THE SITE OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL viii

THE BARRIER OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 9

THE GARDEN STREETS OF ADELAIDE 16

COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE 25

THE TOWN HALL, SYDNEY 32

AUSTRALIAN NATIVES IN CAPTAIN COOK'S TIME 41

THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST AT NIGHT--"MOONING" OPOSSUMS 48

A SHEEP DROVER 57

A HUT IN THE BUSH 64

SURF-BATHING--SHOOTING THE BREAKERS 73

AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN RIDING TO SCHOOL 80