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Start of eBook	1
PART I	1
DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA	1
DESCRIPTION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA	4
THE FIRST VISIT TO THE EASTERN COAST	7
CAPE YORK. POSSESSION ISLAND	10
BASS STRAIT	10
THE WEST END OF THE STRAIT	13
THE INVESTIGATOR	15
KING GEORGE’S SOUND	16
PORT PHILLIP	17
PORT JACKSON	19
NAMING THE CONTINENT	20
ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS	20
TO JOHN OXLEY PARKER, ESQ., OF CHELMSFORD, ESSEX	20
AUSTRALIA FELIX (VICTORIA)	24
THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT.	27
EXPLORATION OF THE EASTERN RIVER SYSTEM	31
THE INTERIOR. II	36
SCOPE AND RESULTS OF CENTRAL EXPEDITION AS SUMMED UP BY STURT	38
ACROSS THE CONTINENT. SOUTH TO NORTH. I	39
BURKE’S LAST LETTER	40
KING’S NARRATIVE	41
ACROSS THE CONTINENT. SOUTH TO NORTH. II	43
THE CENTRE	43
ACROSS AT LAST	44
FROM WEST TO EAST. I. ALONG THE BIGHT	47
FROM WEST TO EAST. II. THE INTERIOR	50
PART II	54
THE FIRST SETTLEMENT	54
GOVERNOR PHILLIP’S FIRST COMMISSION	54
GOVERNOR PHILLIP’S INSTRUCTIONS	55
GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO LORD SYDNEY	58
EARLY DIFFICULTIES	61
GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO UNDER-SECRETARY NEPEAN	61
PHILLIP’S RESIGNATION	64
GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO LORD GRENVILLE	64
NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS	64
GRENVILLE TO PHILLIP	65
GOVERNOR HUNTER TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND	65
STATEMENT OF THE CASE OF JOHN BAUGHAN	67
(Enclosure No. 2)	68
(Enclosure No. 3)	68
THE IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS	69
GOVERNOR HUNTER TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND	69
THE BLIGH MUTINY	72
MAJOR JOHNSTON TO VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH	72
PROCLAMATION	77
SOLDIERS!	77
MR. NICHOLAS BAYLY TO GOVERNOR BLIGH	77
THE BEGINNING OF THE WOOL INDUSTRY	78
GOVERNOR KING TO EARL CAMDEN	78
MACARTHUR’S OBSERVATIONS ON SHEEP-FARMING	79
EMANCIPIST CONTROVERSY	81
GOVERNOR MACQUARIE TO VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH	81
GOVERNOR MACQUARIE TO EARL OF LIVERPOOL	83
WESTERN AUSTRALIA	84
WAKEFIELD’S SCHEME OF COLONIZATION	89
OUTLINE OF A SYSTEM OF COLONIZATION	89
FOUNDATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA	89
SITUATION AND EXTENT	89
CITY OF ADELAIDE.	91
FOUNDATION OF VICTORIA	94
TRANSPORTATION	99
INDEPENDENCE OF VICTORIA	104
GOLD	107
THE DIGGINGS	110
EFFECTS OF THE GOLD DISCOVERY	111
THE GOLD MINES	112
VICTORIA IN 1854	113
THE BUSHRANGERS	115
ANTI-TRANSPORTATION MOVEMENT	119
BREAKFAST TO THE TASMANIAN DELEGATES	119
THE LAND QUESTION	123
LAND QUESTION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA	123
THE LAND QUESTION IN NEW SOUTH WALES	126
APPENDIX TO EVIDENCE OF MR. J. ROBERTSON (before Select Committee.)	126
QUEENSLAND	129
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PAYMENT OF MEMBERS CRISIS	134
TELEGRAMS FROM MELBOURNE	137
NEW GUINEA	139
THE NATIONAL AUSTRALASIAN CONVENTION 1891	144
THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA	148
TELEGRAM FROM THE KING	150
REPLY TO THE KING	151
MESSAGE FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT	151
THE BOER WAR	151
ELANDS RIVER	152
THE GREAT WAR	154
THE RALLY OF THE EMPIRE	155
LANDING ON GALLIPOLI	160
VIEWED FROM A BATTLESHIP	160
WHAT ANZAC MEANS	163
THE END	165

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