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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to ocean to the northern shore, andincludes the so-called Northern Territory, or Alexandra Land, whichwill one day, no doubt, form an independent government. To the east-ward of the Northern Territory and South Australia is Queensland, andsouth of Queensland and eastward of South Australia is the parent col-ony of New South Wales. Then comes the colony of Victoria, south ofNew South Wales; territorially it is the smallest of all the colonies, butit isnt small in any other way. Tasmania is a hundred and fifty milessouth of Victoria, from which it is separated by Basss Strait, which pre-serves, the name of its discoverer, Dr. George Bass of the Royal Navy. * Frank paused a moment and gave Fred an opportunity to speak ofsomething he had just read about Doctor Bass. He made his first ex-pedition, said Fred, in 1796, in an open boat eight feet long, in com-pany with Midshipman (afterwards Captain) Flinders and a crew of one * See map at the end of this volume. A SCENE OF THE GOLD RUSH. 319
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320 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. boy. They narrowly escaped being drowned in the sea, and later inbeing killed by the natives when the wind drove them ashore. In thefollowing year Doctor Bass went in a whale-boat, with a crew of sixmen and provisions for six weeks, and found that the coast trended sofar to the west as to indicate the separation of Tasmania from the main-land, and in the next year (1798) he obtained a sloop, and in companywith Captain Flinders actually sailed through the strait and deter-mined the question. I see you have been reading to advantage, the Doctor remarked. And please add to your notes that this same Doctor Bass is supposedto have died a slave in the mines of Chili. He was arrested at Valpa-raiso in consequence of a dispute with the authorities, and was neveragain seen or heard of by his friends. There was a rumor that he hadbeen sent to the mines, and that was all. If the Australian continent were divided into one hundred equalparts, said Frank, Yict

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