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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеTRAVELLING IN AUSTRALIA.—AN ADVENTURE WITH SNAKES.—CARRYING THE MAILS.
EATING BROILED KANGAROO MEAT.—AUSTRALIAN SPEARS AND AMERICAN RIFLES.
THE SOLITARY STOCKMAN.—SHOOTING A KANGAROO.
ADVENTURE WITH A DOG.—THE MURDER IN THE RAVINE.—STORY OF AN OUTRAGED WOMAN.
BLACK DARNLEY'S VILLANY.—THE CONVICT STOCKMAN.
AN EXPEDITION.—A FIGHT WITH BUSHRANGERS.—DEATH OF BLACK DARNLEY.
THE STOCKMAN'S DAUGHTER.—MOUNTED POLICE OF MELBOURNE.
DESPERATE DEEDS OF TWO CONVICTS.—LIEUT. MURDEN'S STORY.
SAGACITY OF A DOG.—A NIGHT'S ADVENTURES.
DISCOVERY OF A MASONIC RING.—FUNERAL PYRE OF BLACK DARNLEY.
THE STOCKMAN AND HIS PARROT.—DARING PLOT OF A ROBBER CHIEFTAIN.
DISCOVERY OF STOLEN TREASURES IN THE STOCKMAN'S CELLAR.
DYING CONFESSION OF JIM GULPIN, THE ROBBER.
A FORCED MARCH TOWARDS MELBOURNE.
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO MELBOURNE.
LARGE FIRE IN MELBOURNE.—ENGLISH MACHINES AT FAULT.
PARDON OF SMITH AND THE OLD STOCKMAN.—GRAND DINNER AT THE GOVERNOR'S.
DUEL BETWEEN FRED AND AN ENGLISH LIEUTENANT.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE SEARCH FOR GULPIN'S BURIED TREASURES.
DEPARTURE FROM MELBOURNE.—FIGHT WITH THE NATIVES.
ARRIVAL AT THE OLD STOCKMAN'S HUT.—MYSTERIOUS INTERRUPTIONS DURING THE HUNT.
ROBBERY OF THE CART.—CAPTURE OF STEEL SPRING.
CAPTURE OF ALL HANDS, BY THE BUSHRANGERS.
OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL OF LIEUTENANT MURDEN AND HIS FORCE, ROUT OF THE BUSHRANGERS.
REVENGE OF THE BUSHRANGERS.—FIRING OF THE FOREST.
PERILOUS SITUATION DURING THE FIRE.—STEEL SPRING TURNS UP.
CAPTURE OF THE BUSHRANGERS, AND DEATH OF NOSEY.
RETURN TO THE STOCKMAN'S HUT.—SMITH IN LOVE.
RECOVERY OF THE GOLD.—ARRIVAL AT BALLARAT.
THE BULLY OF BALLARAT.—FRED FIGHTS A DUEL.
BALLARAT CUSTOMS, AFTER A DUEL.
ARRIVAL AT BALLARAT.—MR. BROWN'S STORY.
FINDING OF A 110 LB. NUGGET.—CAVING IN OF A MINE.
INCIDENTS IN LIFE AT BALLARAT.
ATTEMPT OF THE HOUSEBREAKER.—ATTACK BY THE SNAKE.
DEATH OF THE BURGLAR BY THE SNAKE.
FLIGHT FROM THE SNAKES.—ATTACKED BY THE BUSHRANGERS.
TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO BALLARAT, WITH THE BUSHRANGERS.
A YOUNG GIRL'S ADVENTURES IN SEARCH OF HER LOVER.
COLLECTING TAXES OF THE MINERS.
Murden and Steel Spring arrive from Melbourne.
CATCHING A TARL AS WELL AS A CASSIOWARY.
ARRIVAL OF SMITH.—ATTEMPT TO BURN THE STORE.
THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. CRITCHET.
OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL OF MR. BROWN.—THEY SEND FOR STEEL SPRING.
THE WAY THE COLONISTS OBTAIN WIVES IN AUSTRALIA.
ADVENTURES AT DAN BRIAN'S DRINKING-HOUSE.
CONVALESCENCE OF MR. CRITCHET, AND OUR DISCHARGE FROM THE CRIMINAL DOCKET.
OUR TEAMSTER BARNEY, AND HIS WIFE.
MIKE FINDS THE LARGE "NUGGET."
THE RESULT OF GROWING RICH TOO RAPIDLY.
THE FLOUR SPECULATION.—MR. CRITCHET'S STORY.
MR. BROWN'S DISCHARGE FROM THE POLICE FORCE.—BILL SWINTON'S CONFESSION.
THE EXPEDITION AFTER BILL SWINTON'S BURIED TREASURES.
JOURNEY AFTER THE BURIED TREASURE.
THE HUNT FOR THE BURIED TREASURE.
THE ISLAND GHOST.—NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BROWN.
THE GHOST AND THE BUSHRANGERS.
ARRIVAL AT MR. WRIGHT'S STATION.
SUPPER.—RETURN OF MR. WRIGHT'S SCOUTS.
MIKE TUMBLES INTO THE RIVER.—ARRIVAL OF THE BUSHRANGERS.
MR. WRIGHT'S FARM.—DEATH OF KELLY.
STEEL SPRING IN THE FIELD.—ATTEMPT OF THE COMMISSIONER TO CONFISCATE OUR HORSES.
