At Home in Fiji (V. 1) (Paperback)

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• Publisher: General Books
• Number of Pages: 186
• ISBN: 0217177360
• WAPI (Tower ID): 114006163
• Release Date: August 1, 2009
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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: 22 CHAPTER II. SYDNEY. Sydney, New South Wales, June 2. Dear Nell,?My last letter home was posted at Eock- hampton, two days before we reached Brisbane. 'The latter lies twenty miles up a river, so a little steamer comes down to meet the big one and carry letters and passengers to and fro. On this occasion there was a special one for Sir Arthur, and he and his party were hospitably entertained by the Governor, Mr Cairns. His private secretary at present is Mr Maudslay, a son of the celebrated engineer. He has already travelled far and near for his own amusement, and we think it probable that some day he will find his way to Fiji and become one of our band of brothers, or Knights of the Round Table, if you think that sounds better. I should scarcely think Brisbane %vas a congenial atmosphere. It seemed to us a singularly uninteresting place, its botanical gardens being almost the only resource. Of course, in asemi-tropical climate like that of Queensland, there is always the attraction of very varied foliage; but we thought even this was somewhat stunted. We had lovely weather on our two days' voyage from Brisbane, and also the day we arrived here. Unfortunately we just missed seeing the festivities for the Queen's birthday, when every ship in the beautiful harbour was dressed, and there was an immense volunteer review. There are no military here, and the volunteers only meet on this one day. Lady Robinson is, however, to have a great ball to-night, when she promises to show us any number of Australian beauties. The accommodation of Government House is so very limited, and the family party so large, that it was as much as she could do to find room for Lady Gordon and the children. All the gentlemen have found quarters at an hotel; and Commodore and Mrs Goodenough...

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