I recollect while the track was being laid speaking to an Australian in charge of a gang of natives preparing an earthwork, and asked why it was that a trench was dug before earth was piled up.

You bet he'll sign it: Besides, he's white; pulled out of the firing-line by an Australian at Gaza, and hasn't forgotten it.

He isn't the only Australian by a long shot who upholds Australia by fist and boast and astounding gallantry, yet stays away from home.

I know of no early people, savage, barbarous, semi-civilized or civilizedfrom the Australian to the Greekin which the men did not look down on the women as inferior beings.