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The Gold Hunter's Adventures

The Gold Hunter's Adventures

by William Henry Thomes

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Author
Thomes, William Henry, 1824-1895
Title
The Gold Hunters' Adventures; Or, Life in Australia
Credits
E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Gold mines and mining -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
16050
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16050
Release Date
June 13, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE — GOLD HUNTER'S ADVENTURES;
  2. 2.WILLIAM H. THOMES — A RETURNED AUSTRALIAN. — Illustrated by Champney.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
  5. 5.LIFE IN AUSTRALIA; — OR, — A GOLD HUNTER'S ADVENTURES.
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. — FIRST THOUGHTS OF GOING TO AUSTRALIA.—DEPARTURE FROM CALIFORNIA.—LIFE ON BOARD SHIP.—ARRIVAL AT WILLIAMS TOWN.—DESCRIPTION OF MELBOURNE.—A CONVICT'S HUT.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. — A MORNING IN AUSTRALIA.—JOURNEY TO THE MINES OF BALLARAT.—THE CONVICT'S STORY.—BLACK DARNLEY, THE BUSHRANGER.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. — TRAVELLING IN AUSTRALIA.—AN ADVENTURE WITH SNAKES.—CARRYING THE MAILS.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — EATING BROILED KANGAROO MEAT.—AUSTRALIAN SPEARS AND AMERICAN RIFLES.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE SOLITARY STOCKMAN.—SHOOTING A KANGAROO.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — ADVENTURE WITH A DOG.—THE MURDER IN THE RAVINE.—STORY OF AN OUTRAGED WOMAN.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — BLACK DARNLEY'S VILLANY.—THE CONVICT STOCKMAN.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — AN EXPEDITION.—A FIGHT WITH BUSHRANGERS.—DEATH OF BLACK DARNLEY.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — THE STOCKMAN'S DAUGHTER.—MOUNTED POLICE OF MELBOURNE.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. — DESPERATE DEEDS OF TWO CONVICTS.—LIEUT. MURDEN'S STORY.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — SAGACITY OF A DOG.—A NIGHT'S ADVENTURES.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — DISCOVERY OF A MASONIC RING.—FUNERAL PYRE OF BLACK DARNLEY.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — THE STOCKMAN AND HIS PARROT.—DARING PLOT OF A ROBBER CHIEFTAIN.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — DISCOVERY OF STOLEN TREASURES IN THE STOCKMAN'S CELLAR.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — DYING CONFESSION OF JIM GULPIN, THE ROBBER.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — A FORCED MARCH TOWARDS MELBOURNE.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO MELBOURNE.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — LARGE FIRE IN MELBOURNE.—ENGLISH MACHINES AT FAULT.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — PARDON OF SMITH AND THE OLD STOCKMAN.—GRAND DINNER AT THE GOVERNOR'S.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — DUEL BETWEEN FRED AND AN ENGLISH LIEUTENANT.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — PREPARATIONS FOR THE SEARCH FOR GULPIN'S BURIED TREASURES.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — DEPARTURE FROM MELBOURNE.—FIGHT WITH THE NATIVES.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — ARRIVAL AT THE OLD STOCKMAN'S HUT.—MYSTERIOUS INTERRUPTIONS DURING THE HUNT.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — ROBBERY OF THE CART.—CAPTURE OF STEEL SPRING.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. — STEEL SPRING'S HISTORY
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. — FINDING OF THE TREASURE.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. — CAPTURE OF ALL HANDS, BY THE BUSHRANGERS.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. — OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL OF LIEUTENANT MURDEN AND HIS FORCE, ROUT OF THE BUSHRANGERS.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. — REVENGE OF THE BUSHRANGERS.—FIRING OF THE FOREST.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. — PERILOUS SITUATION DURING THE FIRE.—STEEL SPRING TURNS UP.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. — CAPTURE OF THE BUSHRANGERS, AND DEATH OF NOSEY.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. — RETURN TO THE STOCKMAN'S HUT.—SMITH IN LOVE.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. — RECOVERY OF THE GOLD.—ARRIVAL AT BALLARAT.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE BULLY OF BALLARAT.—FRED FIGHTS A DUEL.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV. — BALLARAT CUSTOMS, AFTER A DUEL.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI. — ARRIVAL AT BALLARAT.—MR. BROWN'S STORY.
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII. — FINDING OF A 110 LB. NUGGET.—CAVING IN OF A MINE.
  43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — INCIDENTS IN LIFE AT BALLARAT.
  44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX. — ATTEMPT OF THE HOUSEBREAKER.—ATTACK BY THE SNAKE.
  45. 45.CHAPTER XL. — DEATH OF THE BURGLAR BY THE SNAKE.
  46. 46.CHAPTER XLI. — VISIT TO SNAKES' PARADISE.
  47. 47.CHAPTER XLII. — FLIGHT FROM THE SNAKES.—ATTACKED BY THE BUSHRANGERS.
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLIII. — TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO BALLARAT, WITH THE BUSHRANGERS.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLIV. — THRASHING A BULLY.
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLV. — A YOUNG GIRL'S ADVENTURES IN SEARCH OF HER LOVER.
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLVI. — A MARRIAGE, AND AN ELOPEMENT.
  52. 52.CHAPTER XLVII. — COLLECTING TAXES OF THE MINERS.
  53. 53.CHAPTER XLVIII. — Murden and Steel Spring arrive from Melbourne.
  54. 54.CHAPTER XLIX. — CATCHING A TARL AS WELL AS A CASSIOWARY.
  55. 55.CHAPTER L. — ARRIVAL OF SMITH.—ATTEMPT TO BURN THE STORE.
  56. 56.CHAPTER LI. — ATTEMPT TO BURN THE STORE.
  57. 57.CHAPTER LII. — THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. CRITCHET.
  58. 58.CHAPTER LIII. — OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL OF MR. BROWN.—THEY SEND FOR STEEL SPRING.
  59. 59.CHAPTER LIV. — THE WAY THE COLONISTS OBTAIN WIVES IN AUSTRALIA.
  60. 60.CHAPTER LV. — ADVENTURES AT DAN BRIAN'S DRINKING-HOUSE.
  61. 61.CHAPTER LVI. — ADVENTURES CONTINUED.
  62. 62.CHAPTER LVII. — MORE OF THE SAME SORT.
  63. 63.CHAPTER LVIII. — CONVALESCENCE OF MR. CRITCHET, AND OUR DISCHARGE FROM THE CRIMINAL DOCKET.
  64. 64.CHAPTER LIX. — OUR TEAMSTER BARNEY, AND HIS WIFE.
  65. 65.CHAPTER LX. — MIKE FINDS THE LARGE "NUGGET."
  66. 66.CHAPTER LXI. — THE RESULT OF GROWING RICH TOO RAPIDLY.
  67. 67.CHAPTER LXII. — THE FLOUR SPECULATION.—MR. CRITCHET'S STORY.
  68. 68.CHAPTER LXIII. — THE SAME, CONTINUED.
  69. 69.CHAPTER LXIV. — MR. BROWN'S DISCHARGE FROM THE POLICE FORCE.—BILL SWINTON'S CONFESSION.
  70. 70.CHAPTER LXV. — THE EXPEDITION AFTER BILL SWINTON'S BURIED TREASURES.
  71. 71.CHAPTER LXVI. — JOURNEY AFTER THE BURIED TREASURE.
  72. 72.CHAPTER LXVII. — THE HUNT FOR THE BURIED TREASURE.
  73. 73.CHAPTER LXVIII. — THE ISLAND GHOST.—NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BROWN.
  74. 74.CHAPTER LXIX. — CAPTURE OF THE GHOST.
  75. 75.CHAPTER LXX. — THE GHOST AND THE BUSHRANGERS.
  76. 76.CHAPTER LXXI. — SAM TYRELL AND THE GHOST.
  77. 77.CHAPTER LXXII. — FINDING THE BURIED TREASURE.
  78. 78.CHAPTER LXXIII. — THE ESCAPE FROM THE FIRE.
  79. 79.CHAPTER LXXIV. — ARRIVAL AT MR. WRIGHT'S STATION.
  80. 80.CHAPTER LXXV. — SUPPER.—RETURN OF MR. WRIGHT'S SCOUTS.
  81. 81.CHAPTER LXXVI. — MIKE TUMBLES INTO THE RIVER.—ARRIVAL OF THE BUSHRANGERS.
  82. 82.CHAPTER LXXVII. — CAPTURE OF THE BUSHRANGERS.
  83. 83.CHAPTER LXXVIII. — PUNISHING THE BULLY.
  84. 84.CHAPTER LXXIX. — MR. WRIGHT'S FARM.—DEATH OF KELLY.
  85. 85.CHAPTER LXXX. — JOURNEY BACK TO BALLARAT.
  86. 86.CHAPTER LXXXI. — STEEL SPRING IN THE FIELD.—ATTEMPT OF THE COMMISSIONER TO CONFISCATE OUR HORSES.
  87. 87.CHAPTER LXXXII. — SAME CONTINUED.—DEATH OF ROSS.
  88. 88.CHAPTER LXXXIII. — ARREST OF FRED.—TRIP TO MELBOURNE, AND ITS RESULTS.

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