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CONTENTS.
Voyage.—Flinders Island.—Kangaroo Apple.—Greeting.—Distribution of Clothing.—Native Chief.—Fire.—Notions of Supernatural Influence, and a Future Existence.—Departure from Flinders Island.—Intemperance.—Cutter driven upon the Rocks.— Recklessness.—Dangerous Situation.—Arrival at Kelvedon 176
CHAPTER XVI.
Kelvedon.—Meetings.—Soldier Injured.—Papal Penance.—Animals Poisoned.—Instinct.—Use of Spirits in Whaling, &c.—Toad-fish.—The Saddle.—Eastern Marshes.—Dead Trees.—Farm.—Settler and his Flock.—Sheep Lands.—Opossums.—Meetings at Oatlands and Jericho.—Sheep and Wool.—Native Cat.—Dairy Farm—Vale of the Jordan.—Platypus.—Black Brush.—The Carlton.—Visiters—Inns.—Temperance Reformation.—Richmond.—Jerusalem.—Drought.—Parrots.—Green Ponds.—Settlers.—Invalid Road Party.—Mill.—New Norfolk.—Meetings.—Forlorn Prisoner.—Pious Settler.—Prisoners at Bridgewater.—Return to Hobart Town.—Indisposition 185
CHAPTER XVII.
Hobart Town.—Meeting Places.—Discontinuance of Reading Meetings.—Weekday Meetings.—Ministers.—Meetings to which the Public were Invited.—Prayer.—Principles of Friends.—Baseline.—Perjury.—Prisoner Boy.—Grasstree Hill.—Esculent Vegetables.—Silent Meetings.—Flagellation.—Monthly Meetings.—Reflections.—Report on Chain Gangs and Road Parties.—Traffic of the Blacks.—"Guide to True Peace."—Colonial Hospital.—J. Johnson. —Orphan School.—Penitentiary 195
CHAPTER XVIII.
Browns River.—Potatoes.—Cordage-trees.—Hobart Town Jail.—Meetings.—Baptism.—Condemned Criminals.—Ministry.—Comparison of the Stockkeepers with the Sons of Jacob.—Musk Rat.—Convincement by Reading "Barclay's Apology."—Ministry.—Kangaroo Hunter.—Naming of Places in Van Diemens Land.—Penguins.—Albatross.—Morepork.—Delay.—Ministry of G. W. W.—Penitent Prisoner.—Trying Occurrences.—Seven-mile Beach.—Holothuridæ.—Drunken Prisoners, &c.—Awkward Travelling.—Arrival at Kelvedon.—Fruit Trees.— Black Swans.—Arrival of D. and C. Wheeler.—Coralines, &c.—Cranes.—Track Lost.—Return to Hobart Town 205
CHAPTER XIX.
Old Johnson.—Prayer.—Spiritual Poverty.—Yearly Meeting.—Meeting at New Norfolk.—Influenza.—Cold of Mount Wellington.—Mantis.—Sale of Spirits.—Calumny.—Visit to Port Arthur.—Doughboy Island.—Black-backed Gull.—Commandant bewildered in the Forest.—State of the Penal Settlement.—Scurvy.—Educated Prisoners.—School.—Employment.—Convict Boys.—Coal Mine.—Black Snake.—Coal.—Plants.—Return to Hobart Town.—Letter.—Meetings.—Laws of Primogeniture and Entail.—Pensioners.—Rural Dean.—Surgeon of the Alligator 221
CHAPTER XX.
Voyage to Sydney.—Cape Howe.—Diversity of Gifts.—Dangerous Situation.—Port Jackson.—Sydney.—Religious Instruction.—Aborigines.—Rock Oysters.—Brugmansia.—Visit to the Governor.—Projected Visit to Norfolk Island.—Meetings on Ship-board.—S. Marsden.—New Year's Day.—Shrubs.—"Brick-
