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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CLASS IN THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. us. It is 12,349 feet high, and its top is covered with perpetual snow;it is the highest peak of the Southern Alps, which stretch along the westcoast of New Zealand for nearly two hundred miles, very much as theAndes lie along the west coast of South America. Fred and I thoughtwe would like to climb Mount Cook, and spoke to Doctor Bronsonabout it. The Doctor dampened our enthusiasm by saying that it wasmore difficult of ascent than Mont Blanc, and he was unaware that thefeat had been accomplished since Rev. W. S. Green and two Swiss com-panions reached the top of the mountain in 1883. He added that Mr. Green was a member of the famous Alpine ASCENDING MOUNT COOK. 283
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A PERILOUS NIGHT-WATCH. 284: THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. Club, and had brought the two Swiss mountain-dimbers to assist himin making the ascent. They made several attempts before they suc-ceeded, and when they finally reached the summit it was after severalnarrow escapes from death. They passed one night standing on a nar-row ledge of rock, where a single misstep would have hurled them toinstant death thousands of feet below. Frequently they toiled for hoursup the side of a spur of the mountain, and then found that their laborwas lost, as farther ascent was impossible, owing to the steepness of therock. They had all the variety of adventures recorded in the history ofAlpine climbing, said a gentleman who was in conversation with Doc-tor Bronson at the time the query was propounded, except that ofbeing swept into crevasses or down the slope of the mountain and los-ing their lives. Mr. Green has published a book, entitled The HighAlps of Xew Zealand, in which you will find a desc

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