Excerpt from Adventures in Australia Fifty Years Ago: Being a Record of an Emigrant's Wanderings Though the Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland During the Years 1839 1844 But this narrative would never have been seen in its present form, or in any form, had it not been that the writer having always been fond of journalizing, on his return to England, and a quiet home, and having no particular employ ment, thought he would write out a diary of his adventures, and at the time, all the incidents were vividly retained in his memory, and many of them were entered into that old diary, but not all. And to' aid his memory, he had scraps of memo randa still in his possession, those made in the Southern colony being left in Sydney, when undertaking the journey to Moreton Bay; and he has had help also from old letters sent to England, and published in a local newspaper. 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.