N AND STEEL SPRING ARRIVE FROM MELBOURNE.

CHAPTER XLIX.
CATCHING A TARL AS WELL AS A CASSIOWARY.

CHAPTER L.
ARRIVAL OF SMITH.--ATTEMPT TO BURN THE STORE.

CHAPTER LI.
ATTEMPT TO BURN THE STORE.

CHAPTER LII.
THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. CRITCHET.

CHAPTER LIII.
OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL OF MR. BROWN.--THEY SEND FOR STEEL SPRING.

CHAPTER LIV.
THE WAY THE COLONISTS OBTAIN WIVES IN AUSTRALIA.

CHAPTER LV.
ADVENTURES AT DAN BRIAN'S DRINKING-HOUSE.

CHAPTER LVI.
ADVENTURES CONTINUED.

CHAPTER LVII.
MORE OF THE SAME SORT.

CHAPTER LVIII.
CONVALESCENCE OF MR. CRITCHET, AND OUR DISCHARGE FROM THE
CRIMINAL DOCKET.

CHAPTER LIX.
OUR TEAMSTER BARNEY, AND HIS WIFE.

CHAPTER LX.
MIKE FINDS THE LARGE "NUGGET."

CHAPTER LXI.
THE RESULT OF GROWING RICH TOO RAPIDLY.

CHAPTER LXII.
THE FLOUR SPECULATION.--MR. CRITCHET'S STORY.

CHAPTER LXIII.
THE SAME, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER LXIV.
MR. BROWN'S DISCHARGE FROM THE POLICE FORCE.--BILL SWINTON'S
CONFESSION.

CHAPTER LXV.
THE EXPEDITION AFTER BILL SWINTON'S BURIED TREASURES.

CHAPTER LXVI.
JOURNEY AFTER THE BURIED TREASURE.

CHAPTER LXVII.
THE HUNT FOR THE BURIED TREASURE.

CHAPTER LXVIII.
THE ISLAND GHOST.--NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BROWN.

CHAPTER LXIX.
CAPTURE OF THE GHOST.

CHAPTER LXX.
THE GHOST AND THE BUSHRANGERS.

CHAPTER LXXI.
SAM TYRELL AND THE GHOST.

CHAPTER LXXII.
FINDING THE BURIED TREASURE.

CHAPTER LXXIII.
THE ESCAPE FROM THE FIRE.

CHAPTER LXXIV.
ARRIVAL AT MR. WRIGHT'S STATION.

CHAPTER LXXV.
SUPPER.--RETURN OF MR. WRIGHT'S SCOUTS.

CHAPTER LXXVI.
MIKE TUMBLES INTO THE RIVER.--ARRIVAL OF THE BUSHRANGERS.

CHAPTER LXXVII.
CAPTURE OF THE BUSHRANGERS.

CHAPTER LXXVIII.
PUNISHING THE BULLY.

CHAPTER LXXIX.
MR. WRIGHT'S FARM.--DEATH OF KELLY.

CHAPTER LXXX.
JOURNEY BACK TO BALLARAT.

CHAPTER LXXXI.
STEEL SPRING IN THE FIELD.--ATTEMPT OF THE COMMISSIONER TO
CONFISCATE OUR HORSES.

CHAPTER LXXXII.
SAME CONTINUED.--DEATH OF ROSS.

CHAPTER LXXXIII.
ARREST OF FRED.--TRIP TO MELBOURNE, AND ITS RESULTS.

INTRODUCTION.

Since my return from Australia, I have been solicited by a number of
friends to give them a history of my adventures in that land of gold,
where kangaroos are supposed to be as plenty as natives, and jump ten
times as far, and where natives are imagined to be c