Advance Australasia: A Day-to-Day Record of a Recent Visit to Australasia. Second Edition

Thirty-four years ago, in a fine American ship charte-red by Messrs. Anderson Anderson & Co., I paid my first visit to Australia, and the only one I ever made thither di-rect from the United Kingdom. Those were the palmy days of sailing ships to the Australasian Colonies, and a splendid fleet of regular liners, whose names were hou-sehold words, made wonderful passages for equally wonderful freights with full cargoes each way for the great firms of Green, Wigram, Devitt & Moore, George Thompson, Anderson Anderson, and many others of less note, but of quite equal stability and repute. Passengers were carried, of course, in great numbers, and were, ge-nerally speaking, fairly comfortable, especially in the first class, or cuddy, although, of course, many of the necessi-ties of ocean travel to-day were then its luxuries.