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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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what wesaw and felt: There was a period of calm and ominous silence, and we observedthat the sky was changing from blue to a sort of fiery tinge. Puffs ofheated air came now and then, like blasts from a furnace; they grewin force and frequency, and in an hour or so became a steady wind withincreasing force. It was hot and dry and scorching, and we seemed tobe withering under its effects. Its a brickfielder, sure enough, said a EXPERIENCES IX A BRICKFIELDEK. 437 friend, and he cautioned us to get back to our hotel as soon as we could.We took his advice, and went there. In a little while there was a driving volume of dark clouds like aLondon fog; the wind increased almost to a gale, and then came thedust. It was not a fine, impalpable sand, like that brought to Cairo bythe Miamseen in April, but a perceptible and gritty dust that sifted intoevery crevice and cranny, blinded our eyes, filled our ears, and made itswav inside our clothing, till we could feel that it was all over our skins.
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RECEPTION OF A BRICKFIELDEK. JSTothing is sacred to it, and it invades the most stately mansions as wellas the humblest cottages. The air was filled with dust gathered upfrom the streets, in addition to what the wind brought from the inte-rior ; the dustiest and most disagreeable March day of New York wasthe perfection of mildness compared to it. Windows and doors were closed, and it is the rule to keep them soas long as a brickfielder lasts. The hot gale will make its way insideif it can find the least opening, and then the entire house and all itscontents will be thickly sprinkled with dust. The heat was intolerable, 438 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTEALASIA. but there was no help for it, as an open door or window would onlybring more heat and the dust in addition. We looked out of the win-dows, but the dust-cloud was so thick that we couldnt see across thestreet. A few luckless wayfarers were clinging- to posts or strugghng to keep their feet, andthose who were tryingto go against the

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