A HOLIDAY RESORT FOR AUSTRALIANS--LAUNCESTON--THE NORTH AND SOUTH ESK--MOUNT BISCHOFF--A WILD DISTRICT--THE OLD MAIN ROAD--HOBART--THE DERWENT--PORT ARTHUR--CONVICTS--FACTS AND FIGURES. 141-152 _Illustrations_: View of Mount Wellington, Tasmania 142 Corra Linn, Tasmania 143 On the South Esk, Tasmania 145 Views in Tasmania 147 Launceston 148 Hell Gate, Tasmania 149 On the River Derwent 152 SECTION III.--AUSTRALIAN LIFE AND PRODUCTS. CHAPTER X. HEROES OF EXPLORATION. TRAGIC STORIES--FLINDERS AND BASS--ADVENTURES IN A SMALL BOAT--DISCOVERIES--DISAPPEARANCE OF BASS--DEATH OF FLINDERS--EYRE'S JOURNEY--LUDWIG LEICHHARDT--DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS PARTY--THEORY OF HIS FATE--THE KENNEDY CATASTROPHE--THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION--ACROSS THE CONTINENT--THE DESERTED DEPÔT--SLOW DEATH BY STARVATION--LATER EXPEDITIONS. 153-164 _Illustrations_: Native Encampment 154 A New Clearing 155 Splitters in the Forest 157 After Stray Cattle 160 Monument to Burke and Wills in Melbourne 163 CHAPTER XI. A GLANCE AT THE ABORIGINES. FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE BLACKS--MISUNDERSTANDINGS--NARRATIVE OF A PIONEER--CLIMBING TREES--THE BLACKS' DEFENCE--DECAY OF THE RACE--WEAPONS--THE NORTHERN TRIBES--A NORTHERN ENCAMPMENT--CORROBOREE--BLACK TRACKERS--BURIAL--MISSION STATIONS. 165-178 _Illustrations_: A Corroboree 166 A Waddy Fight 167 Civilised Aborigines 169 A Boomerang 173 A Native Encampment in Queensland 174 A Native Tracker 175 Church, Schoolhouse, and Encampment at Lake Tyers 176 CHAPTER XII. SOME SPECIMENS OF AUSTRALIAN FAUNA AND FLORA. MARSUPIALS--THE 'TASMANIAN DEVIL'--DINGOES--KANGAROO HUNTING--THE LYRE-BIRD--BOWER-BIRD--THE GIANT KINGFISHER--EMU HUNTING--SNAKES--THE SHARK--ALLEGED MONOTONY OF VEGETATION--TROPICAL VEGETATION OF COAST--THE GIANT GUM--THE ROSTRATA--THE MALLEE SCRUB--FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. 179-202 _Illustrations_: