: An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation by Veblen Thorstein - Peace; World War 1914-1918 Peace World War I

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Introductory--Voyage to Australia--Arrival at Adelaide--Description of the city--Melbourne, the Queen of the South--Working men--The highest trees in the world--Two of the most common mammals in Australia Pages 1-12

Sydney harbour--Jealousy between Sydney and Melbourne--The Blue Mountains--Brisbane and Rockhampton--First evening in tropical Australia--Gracemere station--Animal and plant life--Vine-scrubs--Excursion into the neighbouring districts--A Norseman who feels cold in Australia 13-30

Struggle between blacks and whites--116? Fahrenheit--Cool nights--Troubles--Bush-life--How the bushman spends his money--Inundations--Back again to Gracemere--A greedy snake--Courtship in the bush 53-62

Journey to Northern Queensland--Mackay-sugar--Employment of South Sea Islanders--Townsville--A rough northern man--Sugar district on Lower Herbert--Visit to a successful Scandinavian--Blacks near Gardiner's farm--Nolla-nolla--Spring--Arrival at Herbert Vale 63-75

Headquarters at Herbert Vale--Civilised blacks--Domestic life--Nelly the cook--Cats--Swimming in fat--My bill of fare--Killing the bullock--Strong stomachs and bad fare 76-88

K?min --On the top of the gum-trees--Hunting the wallaby--The spear of the natives--Bird life in the open country--Jungle-hens--Cassowary 89-99

Pleasant companions--Two new mammals--Large scrubs in the Coast Mountains--The lawyer-palm--"Never have a black-fellow behind you"--I decide to live with the blacks--Great expectations--My outfit--Tobacco is money--The baby of the gun 100-111

The position of women among the blacks--The husband the hunter, and the woman the provider of the family--Black female slaves--"Marking" the wives--A twelve-year-old wife--Considerate husbands--Wives an inheritance--Deserted by my followers--Reasoning power of the blacks--Darkness and rain 160-171

Dingo a member of the family--A black who does not smoke--Hunting the flying-squirrel--Diseases among the natives--Their remedies--A splendid offer--Unpleasant companions--Trouble in getting dogs 178-187

A wedding--Love among the Australian natives--My first meeting with Yokkai--Big eaters--An accident--Left alone with Yokkai--A difficult descent--Return to Herbert Vale--A new beetle--Friends of the animals 212-222

A festival dance of the blacks--Their orchestra--A plain table--Yokkai wants to become "a white man"--Yokkai's confession--A dangerous situation--A family drama 236-246

Arrival of the native police--The murderer caught--Examination--Jimmy is taken to Cardwell--Flight of the prisoner--The officer of the law--Expedition to the Valley of Lagoons--A mother eats her own child--My authority receives a shock 247-255

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