Advance Australia

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Excerpt from Advance Australia: An Account of Eight Years' Work, Wandering, and Amusement in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria Upon this occasion, however, nothing occurred that the most pious or pusillanimous Frenchmen could die tort into a pretext for presenting his Maker with a toy, and three days after leaving Naples we reached Port Said. This town forms a receptacle for all the scum and dregs of every nation under the sun, and is nu doubtedly one Of the most villainous dens in existence. Composed almost entirely of casinos, gambling saloons, and houses sacred to the worship Of blind Cupid, it is a Sink of iniquity whose waters, like those Of the Dead Sea, are so dense as to Support numbers who would go to the bottom elsewhere. The light-house and the coal sheds are probably the only buildings in the place that have not a professional tendency towards the subversion Of morals and the encouragement of vice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.