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Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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neer of thePalmer, one of the first party to ascend the north branch, is satisfiedthere must have been at least 200 Chinamen and white men killedby the blacks from time to time. Many were never missed. Theyhad no friends or relatives, and in a gold rush men are apt to beterribly selfish, and cruelly indifferent to each others fate. Chinamenleft their dead unburied; white men hurried theirs into a shallowgrave and passed on. Many a fine type of Australian manhood,,many a big hearted manly fellow, found only a cruel death in thatfrantic search for gold on the Palmer River. Far off, in many aland, fathers and mothers sat by vacant chairs that would never befilled again, watched in the sickness of hope deferred through— The life long martyrdom,The weariness, the endless painOf waiting for some one to comeWho never more would come again. But those days have gone, never to return again on any Queenslandgold field. Never again shall our history repeat those dismal talesof the times of old.
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COOKTOWN TO JNFoRMANTON. (The following is an outline of the journey hy sea along the Cape YorkPeninsula, and round the Culf of Carpentaria to Normanton, with an accountof the Croydon Railway, and the scenery and resources of the country inlandfrom the shores of the Gulf. J By W. 0. H. EAVING Cooktown, one leaves the railways behind him, tobe no more seen until that long tongue of land called CapeYork has been rounded, the wide Bay of Carpentaria coasted, andthe highest point of navigation in the Norman River reached.Between these extremes a large expanse of ocean has to be traversed,and the travel is confined to purely tropic regions. Heading north-wards and west is the long coast line of the peninsula, its spineholding gold and silver and tin in situ, with here and there cliffslaved by deep water, or more frequently sandy dunes flanking downto the coast line. To the east lies the great Barrier Reef, with itswestern edge fretted by the unquiet waves of the rolling Pacific,and the cha

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