Excerpt from Parts of the Pacific

Many people are familiar with the stately cities in the Southern parts of Australia, replete with every luxury of modern civilization; many know the delight of cantering across the grassy uplands of the rural districts on a good hack in that lovely climate, roving from one luxurious "station" or comfortable settlement to another; many know the more recent city of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland; but few are those who have been far beyond, right into those Northern regions of the Colony which lie within the burning Tropics - a part spoken of in the South as an unknown district - a place unfit for human habitation, where even the people who live in the better townships on the coast, or in other tolerably settled parts, regard the rest of the land as the "Never-Never Country".

Leaving Australia Proper - as known to the world - I ventured Northwards, where a brother of mine held a small Government appointment, and there spent a few years between the 10th and 21st parallels of South Latitude.

Being weary of waiting for money which was to have reached me at Brisbane, I determined to go on without it, and let it follow me at its leisure. So, with a few remaining sovereigns, I joined a picnic party at One-Tree Hill, with its lovely view over the forests to Toowoomba, with the river winding through the plain, past Brisbane to Morton Bay. And then I started for the Never-Never, calling at several nourishing towns on the way.

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