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The story of a strange monster living in a crater lake on Ben Lomond, Tasmania. A gold miner accompanies an ex-convict to the lake to which, around 1840, the convict and a fellow escapee had fled - and where the companion had been killed by the monster. (PB)
Sheep station routine for the colonial experience youth - payment, rations, duties, eg. sheep drafting etc - on the Riverina, and fellow station hands, bushrangers etc. An account of walking from the station to Echuca, on the Victorian border, a trip of 300 miles - in 1868-69 is included. (PB)
In 1838 in St Petersburg, Princess Maria, elder daughter of Czar Nicholas, falls in love with the grandson of Napoleon, and persuades her father to accept the match. (PB)