Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: CAPTAIN COOK.] * * * * * THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FROM 1606 TO 1890 BY ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, M.A. AND GEORGE SUTHERLAND, M.A. LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET GEORGE ROBERTSON AND CO. MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, ADELAIDE, AND BRISBANE 1894 * * * * * THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS. * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Captain Cook, _frontispiece._ William Dampier, 6 Rocks, South Heads, Sydney, 13 Town and Cove of Sydney, in 1798, 17 Matthew Flinders, 21 Cook's Monument, Botany Bay, 24 The Explorers' Tree, Katoomba, N.S.W., 26 Governor Collins, 33 Governor Macquarie, 39 Blue Mountain Scenery, Wentworth Falls, N.S.W., 41 St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, 46 Captain Charles Sturt, 51 The First House Built in Victoria, 56 The First Hotel in Victoria, 57 Edward Henty, 61 John Pascoe Fawkner, 62 Governor Latrobe, 65 Collins Street, Melbourne, in 1840, 66 First Settlement at Adelaide, 1836, 69 Governor Hindmarsh, 71 Proclamation Tree, Glenelg, 74 Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 81 Edward Hargraves, 92 Perth, Western Australia, in 1838, 114 Perth, 1890, 115 Boomerangs, or Kylies, 122 Parliament House, Brisbane, 123 Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, 126 Government House, Brisbane, 130 Robert O'Hara Burke, 144 William John Wills, 145 Sir John Franklin, 156 Queen Truganina, the last of the Tasmanians, 163 King William Street, Adelaide, 167 George Street, Sydney, 169