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THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA.

accompany him to the place and secure the prize. Luckily no one had been there in his absence, and the great nugget was borne safely to the commissioner's tent.

MAP OF THE GOLD-FIELDS OF VICTORIA TWENTY YEARS AGO.

"According to Australian history, gold was discovered at Lewis Pond Creek, in New South Wales, in February, 1851, by Edward Hargreaves; and at Clunes, sixteen miles from Ballarat, Victoria, in July of the same year, by a miner named Esmond. Both Hargreaves and Es-