A lost-race romance story. Typically, in this popular late-nineteenth century genre, male English adventurers travel beyond the edges of the known world and have their masculine and racial identities tested, but ultimately affirmed, in encounters with a lost race, remnants of an ancient civilisation often led by a female chief.
Source: Carter, David. How people have imagined Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas, 2010.
London : Sampson Low, Marston , 1896