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                               NARRATIVE

                                 OF THE

                      Circumnavigation of the Globe

                        BY THE AUSTRIAN FRIGATE

                                 NOVARA,

                (COMMODORE B. VON WULLERSTORF-URBAIR,)

           _Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government_,

                   IN THE YEARS 1857, 1858, & 1859,

          UNDER THE IMMEDIATE AUSPICES OF HIS I. AND R. HIGHNESS

                  THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND MAXIMILIAN,

              COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AUSTRIAN NAVY.

                                   BY

                           DR. KARL SCHERZER,

  MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION, AUTHOR OF "TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AMERICA," ETC.

                                VOL. III.


                             [Illustration]

                                LONDON:
                       SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO.,
                   66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE.

                                 1863.

                [THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.]


                     JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.




                                CONTENTS.

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                             CHAPTER XVIII.

                                 SYDNEY.

    The politico-economical importance to England of her colonies.--
    Extraordinary growth of Sydney.--Public buildings.--Expeditions
    of discovery into the interior of Australia.--Scientific
    endeavours in Sydney.--Macleay's Seat at Elizabeth Bay.--Sir
    Daniel Cooper.--Rickety Dick.--Monument to La Perouse at Botany
    Bay.--The Botanical Garden.--Journey by rail to Campbelton.--
    Camden Park.--German emigrants.--Wine cultivation in Australia.
    Odd Fellows' Lodge at Campbelton.--Appin.--Wulongong.--Mr.
    Hill.--The Aborigines.--Kangaroo hunting.--Coal mines in the
    Keira range.--An adventure in the woods.--Return to Sydney.--The
    Australian club.--Excursion up Hunter River as far as Ash
    Island.--"Nuggets."--The _Novara_ in the dry dock at Cockatoo
    Island.--Reformation among the prisoners in the colony.--
    Serenade by the Germans in Sydney, in honour of the expedition.--
    Ball on board the frigate.--Political life in Sydney.--Excursion
    for craniological