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Journal"                                      138

---- Editor Of Froebel's Works                                3,  32,  138

Langethal,  Heinrich                                                  91,

               93,  100,  101,  120,  122,  123,  124,  137,  140,  141,  142,  144

Language,  Philosophy Of                                           81,  99

---- Teaching Of                                      59,  64,  81,  84,  85

Story 7 ( Bibliography Of Froebel.) Pg 147

Latin,  Study Of                                           20,  23,  34,  84

Legacies                                                         86,  123

Leipzig                                                               91

Leonhardi                                                            103

Lessons From Nature's Training                                        72

Letter To The Duke Of Meiningen                            2,  3-101,  141

---- To Krause                                         102-125,  141,  146

"Levana"                                                              70

Liebenstein,  Life At                                                 142

Life As A Connected Whole                                            104

"Life,  Will,  Understanding"                                          118

Lilies,  Vain Search For                                               96

London Kindergarten College                                          144

Love Of Nature. [See Nature,  Love R,  Martin                                                        50

Lützow,  Baron Von                                                91,  141

 

Manchester Kindergarten Association                                  143

Mankind As One Great Unity                                            84

Manner In Teaching                                                    21

Manning,  Miss                                                        144

Manual Training At Helba                                             121

Map-Drawing                                                       39,  61

"Mappe Du Monde Litteraire"                                           36

Marenholz-Bülow,  Baroness Von                     73,  142,  143,  146,  149

Marienthal                                                      142,  143

Marquart,  Dr.                                                        143

---- Madame                                                          143

Master Of The Girls' School                                            7

Mathematics                                                           27

Matrimony                                                             11

Mechanical Powers,  The                                                30

Mecklenburg                                                       42,  44

Meiningen,  Duke Of                                         102,  129,  130

---- Letter To                                   2,  3-101,  141,  142,  146

Meissen                                                          92,  120

Memorizing Of Rules Vs. Development                         55,  109,  116

"Menschen Erziehung"                                1,  76,  117,  141,  145

Mental Struggles                                                      65

Metaphysics                                                      40,  118

Methods Of Education                                                  99

Michaelis,  Mme.                                            143,  146,  147

Middendorf,  Wilhelm       92,  93,  94,  100,  101,  103,  120,  121,  122,  123,

              124,  127,  128,  135,  136,  137,  138,  139,  140,  141,  142,  143

Mineralogy                                                    30,  87,  89

---- Professorship Declined                                          112

Story 7 ( Bibliography Of Froebel.) Pg 148

Misapprehension Of Froebel's Motives                                  16

Model School At Frankfurt                                             51

"Moonstruck," Froebel So Considered                                  105

Moral Influence Of The Teacher                                    60,  83

---- Pride                                                             5

Mother Of Froebel                                              3,  44,  72

"Mothers' Songs"                                                 76,  145

Mugge,  Johanna Caroline                                              140

"Mutter- And Koselieder"                                         76,  145

Nägeli                                                                81

---- And Pfeifer's "Musical Course"                                   81

Name Temporarily Changed                                              46

Napoleonic Wars                                                  91,  141

---- Reaction From                                                   127

Natural History                                           31,  32,  56,  87

Natural History Society At Jena                                       32

Nature,  Communion With                                                19

---- Love Of   24,  31,  38,  43,  48,  71,  74,  82,  80,  94,  96,  104,  105,  107

---- As An Educator                                                   71

Nature's Work Vs. Man's                                               69

Nature-Temple                                                         12

Nephews Of Froebel. [See Froebel,  Ferdinand,  Etc.]

Netherlands,  Froebel In The                                           95

Neuhof                                                           24,  140

Nieces Of Froebel. [See Froebel, 

"When All Food Fails Then Welcome Haws" Is A Saying That Does Not

Apply To Australia,  Which Yields No Haws Or Fruit Of Any Kind That

Can Long Sustain Life.  A Starving Man May Try To Allay The Pangs Of

Hunger With The Wild Raspberries,  Or With The Cherries Which Wear

Their Seeds Outside,  But The Longer He Eats Them,  The More Hungry He

Grows.  One Resource Of The Lost White Man,  If He Has A Gun And

Ammunition,  Is The Native Bear,  Sometimes Called Monkey Bear.  Its

Flesh Is Strong And Muscular,  And Its Eucalyptic Odour Is Stronger

Still.  A Dog Will Eat Opossum With Pleasure,  But He Must Be Very

Hungry Before He Will Eat Bear; And How Lost To All Delicacy Of

Taste,  And Sense Of Refinement,  Must The Epicure Be Who Will Make The

Attempt!  The Last Quadruped On Which A Meal Can Be Made Is The

Dingo,  And The Last Winged Creature Is The Owl,  Whose Scanty Flesh Is

Viler Even Than That Of The Hawk Or Carrion Crow,  And Yet A White Man

Has Partaken Of All These And Survived.  Some Men Have Tried Roasted

Snake,  But I Never Heard Of Anyone Who Could Keep It On His Stomach.

The Blacks,  With Their Keen Scent,  Knew When A Snake Was Near By The

Odour It Emitted,  But They Avoided The Reptile Whether Alive Or Dead.

 

Before Any White Man Had Made His Abode In Gippsland,  A Schooner

Sailed From Sydney Chartered By A New Settler Who Had Taken Up A

Station In The Port Phillip District.  His Wife And Family Were On

Board,  And He Had Shipped A Large Quantity Of Stores,  Suitable For

Commencing Life In A New Land.  It Was Afterwards Remembered That The

Deck Of The Vessel Was Encumbered With Cargo Of Various Kinds,

Including A Bullock Dray,  And That The Deck Hamper Would Unfit Her To

Encounter Bad Weather.  As She Did Not Arrive At Port Phillip Within

Story 7 ( Bibliography Of Froebel.) Pg 149

A Reasonable Time,  A Cutter Was Sent Along The Coast In Search Of

Her; And Her Long Boat Was Found Ashore Near The Lakes Entrance,  But

Nothing Else Belonging To Her Was Ever Seen.

 

When The Report Arose In 1843 That A White Woman Had Been Seen With

The Blacks,  It Was Supposed That She Was One Of The Passengers Of The

Missing Schooner,  And Parties Of Horsemen Went Out To Search For Her

Among The Natives,  But The Only White Woman Ever Found Was A Wooden

One--The Figure-Head Of A Ship.

 

Some Time Afterwards,  When Gippsland Had Been Settled By White Men,  A

Tree Was Discovered On Woodside Station Near The Beach,  In The Bark

Of Which Letters Had Been Cut,  And It Was Said They Would Correspond

With The Initials Of The Names Of Some Of The Passengers And Crew Of

The Lost Schooner,  And By Their Appearance They Must Have Been Carved

Many Years Previously.  This Tree Was Cut Down,  And The Part Of The

Trunk Containing The Letters Was Sawn Off And Sent To Melbourne.

There Is Little Doubt That The Letters On The Tree Had Been Cut By

One Of The Survivors Of That Ill-Fated Schooner,  Who Had Landed In

The Long Boat Near The Lakes,  And Had Made Their Way Along The

Ninety-Mile Beach To Woodside.  They Were Far From The Usual Track Of

Coasting Vessels,  And Had Little Chance Of Attracting Attention By

Signals Or Fires.  Even If They Had Plenty Of Food,  It Was Impossible

For Them To Travel In Safety Through That Unknown Country To Port

Phillip,  Crossing The Inlets,  Creeks,  And Swamps,  In Daily Danger Of

Losing Their Lives By The Spears Of The Wild Natives.  They Must Have

Wandered Along The Ninety-Mile As Far As They Could Go,  And Then,

Weary And Worn Out For Want Of Food,  Reluctant To Die The Death Of

The Unhonoured Dead,  One Of Them Had Carved The Letters On The Tree,

As A Last Despairing Message To Their Friends,  Before They Were

Killed By The Savages,  Or Succumbed To Starvation.

 

"For Who,  To Dumb Forgetfulness A Prey,

This Pleasing,  Anxious Being E'er Resigned,

Left The Warm Precincts Of The Cheerful Day,

Nor Cast One Longing,  Lingering Look Behind?"

 

 

 

 

Story 8 (Gippsland Pioneers.) Pg 150

At The Old Port.

 

Most Of Them Were Highlanders,  And The News Of The Discovery Of

Gippsland Must Often Have Been Imparted In Gaelic,  For Many Of The

Children Of The Mist Could Speak No English When They Landed.

 

Year After Year Settlers Had Advanced Farther From Sydney Along The

Coastal Ranges,  Until Stations Were Occupied To The Westward Of

Twofold Bay.  In That Rugged Country,  Where No Wheeled Vehicle Could

Travel,  Bullocks Were Trained To Carry Produce To The Bay,  And To

Bring Back Stores Imported From Sydney.  Each Train Was In Charge Of

A White Man,  With Several Native Drivers.  But Rumours Of Better

Story 8 (Gippsland Pioneers.) Pg 151

Lands Towards The South Were Rife,  And Captain Macalister,  Of The

Border Police,  Equipped A Party Of Men Under Mcmillan To Go In Search

Of Them.  Armed And Provisioned,  They Journeyed Over The Mountains,

Under The Guidance Of The Faithful Native Friday,  And At Length From

The Top Of A New Mount Pisgah Beheld A Fair Land,  Watered Throughout

As The Paradise Of The Lord.  Descending Into The Plains,  Mcmillan

Selected A Site For A Station,  Left Some Of His Men To Build Huts And

Stockyards,  And Returned To Report His Discovery To Macalister.

 

Slabs Were Split With Which Walls Were Erected,  But Before A Roof Was

Put On Them The Blacks Suddenly Appeared And Began To Throw Their

Spears At The Intruders; One Spear Of Seasoned Hardwood Actually

Penetrated Through A Slab.  The Men,  All But One,  Who Shall Be

Nameless,  Seized Their Guns And Fired At The Blacks,  Who Soon

Disappeared.  The White Men Also Disappeared Over The Mountains; The

Rout Was Mutual.

 

But The Country Was Too Good To Be Occupied Solely By Savages,  And

When Mcmillan Returned With Reinforcements He Made Some Arrangements,

The Exact Particulars Of Which He Would Never Disclose.  He Brought

Cattle To His Run,  And They Quickly Grew Fat; But Civilised Man Does

Not Live By Fat Cattle Alone,  And A Market Had To Be Sought.  Twofold

Bay Was Too Far Away,  And Young Melbourne Was Somewhere Beyond

Impassable Mountains.  Mcmillan Built A Small Boat,  Which He Launched

On The River,  And Pulled Down To The Lakes In Search Of An Outlet.

He Found It,  But The Current Was So Strong That It Carried Him Out To

Sea.  He Had To Land On The Outer Beach,  And To Drag His Boat Back

Over The Sands To The Inner Waters.

 

He Next Rode Westward With His Man Friday To Look For A Port At

Corner Inlet,  And He Blazed A Track To The Albert

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