Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
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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A MOUNTAIN VALLEY. two hundred feet in height. At one of the turns of the road the car-riage came in contact with a cart which was descending the slope tooswiftly for safety; the damage was trifling, but for a few momentsthings wore a serious aspect, as there was a good chance of being tossedover the side of the almost precipitous slope. There were not many travellers along the road, the most pictu- 28 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. resque being groups of girls on horseback and the herders who weredriving cattle to market or for a change of pasture. The girls weregenerally in bright-colored robes, which were gathered in at the waistwith brighter sashes that streamed behind them as they dashed along
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HAWAIIAN TEMPLE. (From a Riissian Engraving about 1790.) the road. Most of them wore straw hats on their heads, and generallythe hats were adorned with flowers in wreaths and festoons, which weremost liberally bestowed. Now and then Franks attention was drawnto a pretty face which surmounted a neck adorned with a string ofblossoms of gaudy colors; the necklace formed an admirable settingfor the complexion, but sometimes the blossoms were not chosen withdue regard to the contrast of colors. The Hawaiian cow-boys, or cattle - drivers, were not unlike theirAmerican protot3^pes, as they wore broad - brimmed hats and bright-colored scarfs; they were mounted on tough little horses, and sat insaddles of the American cow-boy pattern, the pommel rising high, andthe stirrups made of wood. Then there were strings of pack-mules andhorses coming down from the points in the mountains inaccessible to THICKETS OF HOW-TREES. 29 wheeled vehicles, and now and then our friends met a Chinese gardenertakin

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