E-text prepared by Pat McCoy, Nick Wall, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 36399-h.htm or 36399-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36399/pg36399-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36399/36399-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/missingfriendsbe00londiala Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). MISSING FRIENDS [Illustration: A SWAGSMAN.] _"Adventures are to the adventurous."_ BEACONSFIELD. [Illustration: THE ADVENTURE SERIES.] [Illustration] * * * * * THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s. =1.= Adventures of a Younger Son. By E. J. TRELAWNY. _With an Introduction by Edward Garnett_. Second Edition. =2.= Robert Drury's Journal in Madagascar. _Edited by Captain S. P. Oliver._ =3.= Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp. _With an Introduction by H. Manners Chichester._ =4.= The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner. _Edited by Dr. Robert Brown._ =5.= The Buccaneers and Marooners of America. Being an Account of the Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main. _Edited by Howard Pyle._ =6.= The Log of a Jack Tar; or, The Life of James Choyce. With O'Brien's Captivity in France. _Edited by V. Lovett Cameron, R.N._ =7.= The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto. _With an Introduction by Arminius Vambéry._ =8.= The Story of the Filibusters. By JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE. To which is added the Life of Colonel David Crockett. =9.= A Master Mariner. Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Robert William Eastwick. _Edited by Herbert Compton._ =10.= Kolokotrones, Klepht and Warrior. _Edited by Mrs. Edmonds. Introduction by M. Gennadius._ =11.= Hard Life in the Colonies. _Compiled from Private Letters by C. Carlyon Fenkins._ =(_OTHERS IN THE PRESS_.)= * * * * * MISSING FRIENDS Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) Illustrated London: T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square. Mdcccxcii INTRODUCTORY.