Chapter One.
“Mind what you’re doing! Come down directly, you young dog! Ah, I thought as much. There, doctor: a job for you.”
It was on board the great steamer Chusan, outward bound from the port of London for Rockhampton, Moreton Bay, and Sydney, by the north route, with a heavy cargo of assorted goods such as are wanted in the far south Colonies, and some fifty passengers, for the most part returning from a visit to the Old...
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