At Home in Fiji

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SYDNEY. 19 it is thought quite extraordinary that we should care to gather it! Yesterday we went by rail to Paramatta, and drove to the great orange gardens, and noticed one group of trees from 40 to 45 feet high, the stems being nearly a foot in diameter, and the lowest branch three feet above my head. I do not remember any so large in Malta or elsewhere. It seemed strange to see these gardens with such wealth of fruit and blossom, while the neighbouring peach and pear orchards were all leafless. We drove on to the camellia gardens, and paid five shillings for quite a small basketful, though millions of blossoms were wasting their loveliness, and I would fain have carried off even those that lay unheeded on the grass. To-night there is a great ball at the Masonic Hall, to which we go, being bound to see everything. CHAPTER III. LIFE IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS DEATH OF COMMODORE GOODENOUGH LIFE IN THE BUSH. From A Tiny Cottage At The Weatherboard In The Blue Mountains, New South Walls, Begun Aug. 19, 1876. You see I have contrived to escape from the region of fine clothes and prolonged meals ! Oh dear, what a trial it is to be invited to luncheon at some lovely place, where you go expecting a pleasant day out of doors, and find an immense party assembled for a stiff dinner of many courses, which takes nearly the whole afternoon! The donors of the feast console themselves by a quiet evening stroll and late tea; but the poor guest has to return to undergo a second long dinner as usual. Nevertheless I have had many delightful days in the neighbourhood of Sydney. You have no notion what a size the harbour is, and how immense is the amount of shipping always coming and going! . Great ships, and steamboats, and yachts, and tiny steam-launches, ?sometimes I have cou...

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