THE
BOOK OF THE BUSH
CONTAINING
MANY TRUTHFUL SKETCHES OF THE EARLY COLONIAL LIFE OFSQUATTERS, WHALERS, CONVICTS, DIGGERS, AND OTHERS WHO LEFT THEIRNATIVE LAND AND NEVER RETURNED.
By
GEORGE DUNDERDALE.
ILLUSTRATED BY J. MACFARLANE.
LONDON:
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED,
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.
CONTENTS.
PURGING OUT THE OLD LEAVEN.
FIRST SETTLERS.
WRECK OF THE CONVICT SHIP "NEVA" ON KING'SISLAND.
DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER HOPKINS.
WHALING.
OUT WEST IN 1849.
AMONG THE DIGGERS IN 1853.
A BUSH HERMIT.
THE TWO SHEPHERDS.
A VALIANT POLICE-SERGEANT.
WHITE SLAVERS.
THE GOVERNMENT STROKE.
ON THE NINETY-MILE.
GIPPSLAND PIONEERS.
THE ISLE OF BLASTED HOPES.
GLENGARRY IN GIPPSLAND.
WANTED, A CATTLE MARKET.
TWO SPECIAL SURVEYS.
HOW GOVERNMENT CAME TO GIPPSLAND.
GIPPSLAND UNDER THE LAW.
UNTIL THE GOLDEN DAWN.
A NEW RUSH.
GIPPSLAND AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
GOVERNMENT OFFICERS IN THE BUSH.
SEAL ISLANDS AND SEALERS.
A HAPPY CONVICT.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
ILLUSTRATION 1. "Joey's out."
ILLUSTRATION 2. "I'll show you who ismaster aboard this ship."
ILLUSTRATION 3. "You stockman, Frank, comeoff that horse."
ILLUSTRATION 4. "The biggest bullyapropriated the belle of the ball."
"The best article in the March (1893) number of the 'AustralLight' is a pen picture by Mr. George Dunderdale of the famousNinety-Mile Beach, the vast stretch of white and lonelysea-sands, which forms the sea-barrier of Gippsland."--'Review ofReviews', March, 1893.
"The most interesting article in 'Austral Light' is one onGippsland pioneers, by George Dunderdale."--'Review of Reviews',March, 1895.
"In 'Austral Light' for September Mr. George Dunderdalecontributes, under the title of 'Gippsland under the Law,' one ofthose realistic sketches of early colonial life which only he canwrite."--'Review of Reviews', September, 1895.