SOUTH AUSTRALIA.--Of this Colony the only facts obtainable are the following round numbers. The number of churches or chapels existing in 1884 was 928; the number of sittings provided was 200,123; the number of Sunday schools was 727; teachers, 6729; scholars. 57,311. INDEX. ABORIGINES: appearance, 167; life, 168; fighting, 168; Mr. Moore's narrative about, 169; customs, 169; dress, 170; Mr. Carr's story, 170; Ngooraialum and Bangerang tribes, 170; weapons, 173; fierceness of Northern blacks, 173; Corroboree, a, 174; cannibalism, 174; trackers, their usefulness as, 174; Mission stations, 175; Lake Tyers station, 176; Hagenauer, Rev. F. A., letter of, about, 177 Acacia, 200 ADELAIDE: founding, 103; Glenelg, 103; houses, 103, 104; streets and parks, 103; surroundings, 103; churches, 104; Victoria Square, 105; King William Street, 105; Botanical Gardens, 105 Albany, 138 Albert, river, 125 Alligator stories, 113 Amadeus, lake, 101 Araucarias, 202 Argus snipe, 192 AUSTRALIA: former errors about, 14, 23; exports, 14; population, 14; prosperity, 14; colonies, 15; capitals, 15; people, 16; area, 19; mountains, 20; snow, 20; river system, 20; physical geography, 21; climate, 21, 76, 101, 112, 138; hot winds, 22; temperature, 22; storms, 22; natives, 23, 167; fires, 23, 213; rainfall, 24; drought, losses by, 25, 76, 94, 208; not yet fully explored, 25; democracy, 29; securities, rise in, 30; federation movement, 30; immigration, 30; wages, 30; prices, 31; religion, 31; service, a rural, 32; Sunday observance, 32; sects, 34; Sunday schools, 34; church building, 34 _Australia Felix_, 40 Australian Alps, the, 40 Avon, river, 68 BAIRNSDALE, 69 BALLARAT: impressions, 59; Botanical Gardens, 60; discovery of gold, 60; situation, 61; the Corner, 61; Trollope on, 62 Barcoo, river, 164 Barrier Reef, the, 123 Barrow Creek, station at, 109 Bass, story of, 155 Bass's Straits, 144 Bathurst, 93 Batman, settlement of, in Victoria, 38 Baudin, M., treachery of, 157 Baxter, murder of, 158 Bear, native, 181 Beechworth, 69 Belfast, 66 Ben Lomond, 147 Bendigo, _see_ SANDHURST. Big Scrub, New South Wales, 95 Birds of Paradise, 186 Bishopscourt, view from, Melbourne, 43 Black boy, 202 Black-fish, 194 Black Spur, the, 72 Black Thursday in South Australia, 213; in Victoria, 214 Blackheath, 90 Blayney, 94 Blue gum, 200 Blue Mountains, 87 Blue wren, 186 Boomerang, the, 173 Booth, Mr. E. C., on Shepparton, 67 Boroina, 202 Bosisto, Mr. J., on Eucalyptus, 199 Botany Bay, discovery of, 76 Bottle-tree, 201 Bourke Street, Melbourne, 49