Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wild Life and Adventure in the Australian Bush, Vol. 1 of 2: Four Years' Personal Experience Should the following pages, which are based on my four years' experience of work in the Bush, induce some of the sons of the Mother Country to carry their education, their intelli gence, their energy, and their capital to Queens land, to lay the foundation of the new Empire of the English-speaking race in the Southern Hemisphere, my efforts to depict the country as I found it will have availed something. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.