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The Gold Hunters' Adventures; Or, Life in Australia

William Henry Thomes · Public domain text

298,216 words · about 20 h 53 min to read

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The text of The Gold Hunters' Adventures; Or, Life in Australia comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #16050. It is in English and public domain in the United States. Project Gutenberg credits James Wells Champney as illustrator. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built

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Author
William Henry Thomes (1824–1895)
Language
English
Subjects
Australia › Fiction, Gold mines and mining › Fiction
Length
298,216 words · about 20 h 53 min
Sections
85 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (85)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. Introduction about 4 min
  3. Chapter I about 11 min
  4. Chapter II about 23 min
  5. Chapter III about 11 min
  6. Chapter IV about 16 min
  7. V. THE SOLITARY STOCKMAN.--SHOOTING A KANGAROO about 15 min
  8. Chapter VI about 20 min
  9. VII. BLACK DARNLEY'S VILLANY.--THE CONVICT STOCKMAN about 11 min
  10. Chapter VIII about 16 min
  11. IX. THE STOCKMAN'S DAUGHTER.--MOUNTED POLICE OF MELBOURNE about 11 min
  12. X. DESPERATE DEEDS OF TWO CONVICTS.--LIEUT. MURDEN'S STORY about 14 min
  13. XI. SAGACITY OF A DOG.--A NIGHT'S ADVENTURES about 18 min
  14. XII. DISCOVERY OF A MASONIC RING.--FUNERAL PYRE OF BLACK DARNLEY about 13 min
  15. Chapter XIII about 19 min
  16. XIV. DISCOVERY OF STOLEN TREASURES IN THE STOCKMAN'S CELLAR about 12 min
  17. XV. DYING CONFESSION OF JIM GULPIN, THE ROBBER about 18 min
  18. XVI. A FORCED MARCH TOWARDS MELBOURNE about 13 min
  19. XVII. TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO MELBOURNE about 15 min
  20. XVIII. LARGE FIRE IN MELBOURNE.--ENGLISH MACHINES AT FAULT about 17 min
  21. Chapter XIX about 16 min
  22. XX. DUEL BETWEEN FRED AND AN ENGLISH LIEUTENANT about 20 min
  23. XXI. PREPARATIONS FOR THE SEARCH FOR GULPIN'S BURIED TREASURES about 16 min
  24. XXII. DEPARTURE FROM MELBOURNE.--FIGHT WITH THE NATIVES about 14 min
  25. Chapter XXIII about 14 min
  26. XXIV. ROBBERY OF THE CART.--CAPTURE OF STEEL SPRING about 12 min
  27. XXV. STEEL SPRING'S HISTORY about 12 min
  28. XXVI. FINDING OF THE TREASURE about 15 min
  29. XXVII. CAPTURE OF ALL HANDS, BY THE BUSHRANGERS about 17 min
  30. Chapter XXVIII about 15 min
  31. XXIX. REVENGE OF THE BUSHRANGERS.--FIRING OF THE FOREST about 15 min
  32. XXX. PERILOUS SITUATION DURING THE FIRE.--STEEL SPRING TURNS UP about 11 min
  33. XXXI. CAPTURE OF THE BUSHRANGERS, AND DEATH OF NOSEY about 15 min
  34. XXXII. RETURN TO THE STOCKMAN'S HUT.--SMITH IN LOVE about 15 min
  35. XXXIII. RECOVERY OF THE GOLD.--ARRIVAL AT BALLARAT about 17 min
  36. XXXIV. THE BULLY OF BALLARAT.--FRED FIGHTS A DUEL about 19 min
  37. XXXV. BALLARAT CUSTOMS, AFTER A DUEL about 16 min
  38. XXXVI. ARRIVAL AT BALLARAT.--MR. BROWN'S STORY about 18 min
  39. XXXVII. FINDING OF A 110 LB. NUGGET.--CAVING IN OF A MINE about 17 min
  40. XXXVIII. INCIDENTS IN LIFE AT BALLARAT about 16 min
  41. XXXIX. ATTEMPT OF THE HOUSEBREAKER.--ATTACK BY THE SNAKE about 16 min
  42. XL. DEATH OF THE BURGLAR BY THE SNAKE about 14 min
  43. XLI. VISIT TO SNAKES' PARADISE about 16 min
  44. XLII. FLIGHT FROM THE SNAKES.--ATTACKED BY THE BUSHRANGERS about 18 min
  45. XLIII. TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO BALLARAT, WITH THE BUSHRANGERS about 15 min
  46. XLIV. THRASHING A BULLY about 15 min
  47. XLV. A YOUNG GIRL'S ADVENTURES IN SEARCH OF HER LOVER about 15 min
  48. XLVI. A MARRIAGE, AND AN ELOPEMENT about 18 min
  49. XLVII. COLLECTING TAXES OF THE MINERS about 15 min
  50. XLVIII. Murden and Steel Spring arrive from Melbourne about 15 min
  51. XLIX. CATCHING A TARL AS WELL AS A CASSIOWARY about 14 min
  52. L. ARRIVAL OF SMITH.--ATTEMPT TO BURN THE STORE about 15 min
  53. LI. ATTEMPT TO BURN THE STORE about 13 min
  54. LII. THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. CRITCHET about 16 min
  55. LIII. OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL OF MR. BROWN.--THEY SEND FOR STEEL SPRING about 14 min
  56. LIV. THE WAY THE COLONISTS OBTAIN WIVES IN AUSTRALIA about 15 min
  57. LV. ADVENTURES AT DAN BRIAN'S DRINKING-HOUSE about 12 min
  58. LVI. ADVENTURES CONTINUED about 16 min
  59. LVII. MORE OF THE SAME SORT about 16 min
  60. Chapter LVIII about 13 min
  61. LIX. OUR TEAMSTER BARNEY, AND HIS WIFE about 15 min
  62. LX. MIKE FINDS THE LARGE "NUGGET." about 10 min
  63. LXI. THE RESULT OF GROWING RICH TOO RAPIDLY about 13 min
  64. LXII. THE FLOUR SPECULATION.--MR. CRITCHET'S STORY about 17 min
  65. LXIII. THE SAME, CONTINUED about 16 min
  66. Chapter LXIV about 13 min
  67. LXV. THE EXPEDITION AFTER BILL SWINTON'S BURIED TREASURES about 13 min
  68. LXVI. JOURNEY AFTER THE BURIED TREASURE about 13 min
  69. LXVII. THE HUNT FOR THE BURIED TREASURE about 14 min
  70. LXVIII. THE ISLAND GHOST.--NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BROWN about 11 min
  71. LXIX. CAPTURE OF THE GHOST about 15 min
  72. LXX. THE GHOST AND THE BUSHRANGERS about 13 min
  73. LXXI. SAM TYRELL AND THE GHOST about 24 min
  74. LXXII. FINDING THE BURIED TREASURE about 15 min
  75. LXXIII. THE ESCAPE FROM THE FIRE about 12 min
  76. LXXIV. ARRIVAL AT MR. WRIGHT'S STATION about 13 min
  77. LXXV. SUPPER.--RETURN OF MR. WRIGHT'S SCOUTS about 20 min
  78. LXXVI. MIKE TUMBLES INTO THE RIVER.--ARRIVAL OF THE BUSHRANGERS about 14 min
  79. LXXVII. CAPTURE OF THE BUSHRANGERS about 16 min
  80. LXXVIII. PUNISHING THE BULLY about 11 min
  81. LXXIX. MR. WRIGHT'S FARM.--DEATH OF KELLY about 16 min
  82. LXXX. JOURNEY BACK TO BALLARAT about 13 min
  83. Chapter LXXXI about 16 min
  84. LXXXII. SAME CONTINUED.--DEATH OF ROSS about 13 min
  85. LXXXIII. ARREST OF FRED.--TRIP TO MELBOURNE, AND ITS RESULTS about 19 min

The opening of Introduction

Since my return from Australia, I have been solicited by a number of friends to give them a history of my adventures in that land of gold, where kangaroos are supposed to be as plenty as natives, and jump ten times as far, and where natives are imagined to be continually lying in ambush for the purpose of making a hearty meal upon the bodies of those unfortunate travellers who venture far into the interior of the country--where bushrangers are continually hanging about camp fires, ready to cut the weasands of those who close their eyes for a moment--and lastly, where every other man that you meet is expected to be a convict, transported from the mother country for such petty crimes as forgery, house-breaking, and manslaughter in the second degree.

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