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When the girl regained consciousness the house was dark. Slowly she
recalled the event that had culminated the uneventful day. She
wondered if Goyu had been lying or had gone crazy. The darkness was
not reassuring–her father always came home before dark, and his
absence now confirmed her fears. She wondered if the old servant had
deserted her. He was a poor stick anyway; Japanese men who had pride
or character no longer worked as domestics in the households of
foreigners.

Sku: clutchwar

In introducing this book, I should like to commend it to its readers as
giving an account of the explorers of Australia in a simple and concise
form not hitherto available.
It introduces them to us, tells the tale of their long-tried patience and
stubborn endurance, how they lived and did their work, and gives a short
but graphic outline of the work they accomplished in opening out and
preparing Australia as another home for our race on this side of the
world.
The battle that they fought and won was over great natural difficulties
and obstacles, as fortunately there were no ferocious wild beasts in
Australia, while the danger from the hostility of the aborigines (though
a barbarous people) was with care and judgment, with a few exceptions,
avoided.

Sku: life-work

It may be deemed presumptuous that one of my age and sex should venture
to give to the public an account of personal adventures in a land which
has so often been descanted upon by other and abler pens; but when I
reflect on the many mothers, wives, and sisters in England, whose
hearts are ever longing for information respecting the dangers and
privations to which their relatives at the antipodes are exposed,
I cannot but hope that the presumption of my undertaking may be
pardoned in consideration of the pleasure which an accurate description
of some of the Australian Gold Fields may perhaps afford to many; and
although the time of my residence in the colonies was short, I had the
advantage (not only in Melbourne, but whilst in the bush) of constant
intercourse with many experienced diggers and old colonists–thus
having every facility for acquiring information respecting Victoria and
the other colonies.

CONTENTS
Chapter I.    INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Chapter II.   THE VOYAGE OUT
Chapter III.  STAY IN MELBOURNE
Chapter IV. CAMPING UP–MELBOURNE TO THE BLACK FOREST
Chapter V.  CAMPING UP–BLACK FOREST TO EAGLE HAWK GULLY
Chapter VI.  THE DIGGINGS
Chapter VII.  EAGLE HAWK GULLY
Chapter VIII. AN ADVENTURE
Chapter IX.   HARRIETTE WALTERS
Chapter X.    IRONBARK GULLY
Chapter XI.   FOREST CREEK
Chapter XII.  RETURN TO MELBOURNE
Chapter XIII.  BALLARAT
Chapter XIV. NEW SOUTH WALES
Chapter XV.  SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Chapter XVI. MELBOURNE AGAIN
Chapter XVII. HOMEWARD BOUND
Chapter XVIII. CONCLUSION

Sku: golddiggingsaustralia

Wherever there is soil, plants grow and produce their kind, and all
plants are interesting; when a person makes a choice as to what plants
he shall grow in any given place, he becomes a gardener or a farmer; and
if the conditions are such that he cannot make a choice, he may adopt
the plants that grow there by nature, and by making the most of them may
still be a gardener or a farmer in some degree.
Every family, therefore, may have a garden. If there is not a foot of
land, there are porches or windows. Wherever there is sunlight, plants
may be made to grow; and one plant in a tin-can may be a more helpful
and inspiring garden to some mind than a whole acre of lawn and flowers
may be to another.The satisfaction of a garden does not depend on the area, nor, happily,
on the cost or rarity of the plants. It depends on the temper of the
person. One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to
cultivate the happy peace of mind that is satisfied with little.

Sku: manualgardening

The chief literary sources of Chinese myths are the _Li tai shen hsien
t’ung chien_, in thirty-two volumes, the _Shen hsien lieh chuan_,
in eight volumes, the _Feng shen yen i_, in eight volumes, and the
_Sou shen chi_, in ten volumes. In writing the following pages I
have translated or paraphrased largely from these works. I have also
consulted and at times quoted from the excellent volumes on Chinese
Superstitions by Pere Henri Dore, comprised in the valuable series
_Varietes Sinologiques_, published by the Catholic Mission Press
at Shanghai. The native works contained in the Ssu K’u Ch’uean Shu,
one of the few public libraries in Peking, have proved useful for
purposes of reference.

Contents

I.   The Sociology of the Chinese
II.  On Chinese Mythology
III. Cosmogony–P’an Ku and the Creation Myth
IV. The Gods of China
V.  Myths of the Stars
VI. Myths of Thunder, Lightning, Wind, and Rain
VII. Myths of the Waters
VIII. Myths of Fire
IX.   Myths of Epidemics, Medicine, Exorcism, Etc.
X.   The Goddess of Mercy
XI.  The Eight Immortals
XII. The Guardian of the Gate of Heaven
XIII. A Battle of the Gods
XIV. How the Monkey Became a God
XV.  Fox Legends
XVI. Miscellaneous Legends

Sku: legendsofchina