Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Travels in Australasia
It was early in the morning of October 19th. 1906, after an uneventful voyage, that we first arrived in Sydney, and beheld the country in which it was our lot to spend so many happy years After the long sea journey the land looked doubly welcome, and as we entered the heads and steamed down the harbour, each promontory opening up apparently a more beautiful piece of scenery than the last, we could not help feeling what ill-luck had attended Captain Cook when he visited Botany Bay and yet overlooked Port Jackson, for to-day the sun shone in all its glory, the waters sparkled in the bright light, and all nature seemed bent upon showing us this lovely cityto perfection. I do not think it will ever look more beautiful in our eyes or in those of any other than it did then, for not only did it possess all the charm of novelty, not only was the day so clear and perfect, but the shores of neither the northern nor the southern bays were so thickly covered with houses as they were when we left them four years later.
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