Advance An Account of Eight Years Work, Wandering, and Amusement in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria (Classic Reprint)

In January, about nine years ago, I climbed on board theM essageries Maritimes steamer I rouaddij, for the purpose of getting to a cattle-station in Queensland. Like many others of the same line, the I rouaddy is a grand boat, clean, well ventilated, very fast, and steady in bad weather. Three days after leaving Marseilles we got toN aples. I had been there before, but as I never can be twenty minutes in a steamer without wanting to get out, of course I went ashore. There was nothing fresh to be seen, and certainly nothing fresh to be smelt. In appearance the whole place resembles a very inferior chromo-lithograph; and I cannot help thinking that the saying, Vede Napoli epoi Mori, has more reference to the asphyxiating nature of its smells than to any overpowering beauty about the place. Leaving Naples, we passed through theS traits of Messina, and soon lost sight of land.
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