Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland 1871
Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland 1871
Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
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Out of the forty horses only sixteen were alive ; one of mine was dead, and the other did not look as if it could live long after I got it out of the ship, yet it gradually came round and proved a very good horse after- wards. Cooktown is now reckoned among the old-esta- blished towns of Queensland, but when I landed there it looked wild enough. To describe it I ask the reader to think of a fair in the Old Country, GOING TO THE PALMER. 219 leaving out the monkeys and merry-go-rounds. There were... some thousands of people all camped out in tents. Those who intended to start busi- ness in Cooktowii had pegged out plots of ground in the main street and run up large tents or cor- rugated iron structures in which all sorts of merchandise was sold cheap enough. But the wet season kept on, and there was no communica- tion with the Palmer. People left town to go there every day in the rain and slush, but many returned saying it was no use trying, as the rivers could not be crossed. There was at that time a very mixed lot of people in Cooktown.
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