Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Jane Robins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original | | document has been adjusted. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this file. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ DOWN UNDER WITH THE PRINCE BY THE SAME AUTHOR SIGNS AND PORTENTS IN THE FAR EAST [Illustration: H.R.H. ON DECK: AN INTERRUPTION] DOWN UNDER WITH THE PRINCE BY EVERARD COTES WITH TWENTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON _First Published in 1921_ This book attempts to be a gangway to the _Renown_ for the reader who would travel by battle-cruiser, by train, on horseback, by motor, and on foot, the forty-five thousand miles of his Australasian tour with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. It is built by one who travelled, as a correspondent, with him all the way. CONTENTS PAGE I AT SEA 1 II BARBADOS 9 III PANAMA 15 IV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 22 V HONOLULU 27 VI NEPTUNE BOARDS THE _RENOWN_ 35 VII FIJI 41 VIII AUCKLAND 47 IX NORTH ISLAND 59 X SOUTH ISLAND 73 XI ENTERPRISE IN NEW ZEALAND 87 XII VICTORIA 100 XIII NEW SOUTH WALES 116 XIV SOME COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS 130 XV WESTERN AUSTRALIA 140 XVI WHEAT, GOLD, AND LOGGING 148 XVII THE NULLARBOR PLAIN 158 XVIII SOUTH AUSTRALIA 163 XIX TASMANIA 170 XX QUEENSLAND 176 XXI THE JACKAROO AND OTHERS 192