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Allegory of the settling of Victoria by Agricola and Hortensia, their daughters Flora and Pomora, and friend Arboris, and of the prosperous future. (PB)
On the secret marriage of the heir of a Somersetshire baronet, his disinheritance and poverty in Australia, and eventual restoration with his wife and children to his father's affections. Rudimentary and sentimental. (PB)
Memories of several Christmas Days spent in Australia - the death of a friend climbing a hill, a frustrated wedding on the diggings, threshing wheat, and a picnic at Brighton beach. (PB)
The narrator, born in Hobart Town in 1836, was the son of a well-to-do mechanic and had a good education until he ran away to sea when around 14 years old. At first he was involved in the she-oak trade then took up whaling in the Pacific. (PB)
Set in New Zealand on the diggings, a story of a small savage tribe in a hidden valley near Lake Wanaka and a Scotsman who lived with them - accidentally discovered by California Jim on a journey in the area. (PB)
In 1843 on the ship Hunter between Smyrna and Gibraltar, under an American captain, an African cook takes his revenge for being knocked down by the captain in the concoction of arsenic soup. Rough, serviceable tale. (PB)