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Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin - Diantha W. Horne
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Title: Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin
Author: Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Illustrator: Diantha W. Horne
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LIST OF TITLES
By Mary Hazelton Wade
(unless otherwise indicated)
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building, Boston, Mass.
Jean.
Copyright, 1908
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
All rights reserved
First Impression, September, 1908
Second Impression, October, 1909
TO
Kirby McDonough
A Little Texas Friend
Preface
Australia, though a continent, is a part of the Empire of Great Britain. A few years ago it was a wild country, where no white people lived, filled with Blacks, who were man-eating savages. These are fast dying out, but in this story you will learn something about them, and of the lives of your Australian Cousins.
Contents
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[viii]
List of Illustrations
Our Little Australian Cousin
CHAPTER I
LAND
Fergus and Jean were very tired of the long voyage. They stood at the taffrail looking over the dancing waves, longing for the sight of land.
It seems as if we would never get there, Father,
said Fergus. How long it is since we left home!
And how far away Scotland seems,
sighed his mother, as she took little Jean on her lap and stroked her fair hair.
But Australia is to be our home now,
said Mr. Hume cheerfully. See, there is the very first glimpse of it,
and he pointed across the water to a dim line, as the look-out called Land!
We are passing Port Phillip's Head,
he said presently. See the lighthouse! Soon we shall land and you will see a beautiful city.
Beautiful!
Fergus said in surprise. Why, I thought Melbourne was a wild sort of a place. You have told us about the time you were here long ago, before you married my mother, and you had floods in the streets and had to climb up on top of some one's porch for fear of being drowned.
That was fifteen years ago, my son,
said Mr. Hume with a smile. "Melbourne is very different now from what it was then, and then it was not at all like it was when its first settlers saw it.
It was in 1836 that Robert Russell came here to survey the shore near Port Phillip and find out whether boats could go up the River Yana. He felt this to be just the place for a city, planned Melbourne and laid out the streets. It seems strange to think that then the blacks owned all this land and the Wawoorong, Boonoorong, and Wautourong tribes roamed these shores, and that when Russell laid out his city there were native huts standing. The place was called Bear Grass, and in 1837 there were thirteen buildings, eight of which were turf huts. Now Melbourne is seven miles square and the principal street is a mile long. You will soon see how handsome the buildings are, for we are now making ready to land after our long journey.
Fergus and Jean Hume had come from Scotland to live in Australia. Their father had been a farmer, but he had lost all his little fortune through the rascality of a friend, and had determined to try again in the colony.
Australia is a colony of Great Britain just as Canada is, and though it is at the other side of the world, still it is British.
Mrs. Hume had a sister in Sydney and they were to visit her before going to the Gold Country, where Mr. Hume intended to try his fortune.
Fergus was a fine boy of twelve and Jean was eight, and both were much excited at the trip, while Mrs. Hume's sadness at leaving her old home was mixed with joy at the idea of seeing again the sister from whom she had been separated for years.
The landing on the Melbourne quay proved interesting for the children, and they were very much impressed with their first glimpse of the city.
Why, Father,
exclaimed Fergus, as they drove in a cab up Flinders Street, Melbourne streets seem as busy as those of Glasgow!
Indeed they are, my son,
said his father, smiling. Perhaps they are busier. You see Victoria is the busiest part of this country, although the people of New South Wales will tell you that their district is far superior and Sydney a much handsomer city than Melbourne.
If the wares one sees in the streets are any sign, Victoria must have a great variety of products,
said Mrs. Hume. The shops have all manner of things in the windows, and besides there are great drays of wood, coal and timber.
Victoria is called the Garden of Australia,
said Mr. Hume. You will see considerable of it if we go up to Sydney by rail instead of by sea.
Oh, Father!
cried Fergus, who loved the water, are we going to do that?
I haven't decided yet which would be the better plan,
Mr.