the pale brow and sunken cheek, and wiping
away the tears that were yet falling: though
more slowly and more calmly falling, now.

CHIPS.

WHAT TO TAKE TO AUSTRALIA.

THE great majority of the army of emigrants
who are now wildly rushing to Australia,
know no more about the proper preparations
and the qualities and arrangements essential
for comfort on a four months' voyage, than
they do of working a steam-engine, or
selecting the tools for an engineer's shop.
In a little book just published—"Murray's
Guide to the Gold Diggings"—are some
useful hints on outfit and passage, which we
quote with additions from a practical and
experienced source.

The common practice of an intending
emigrant is to discard all he has, and set out
with a bran new stock of everything. The
reverse is the better plan "Begin by mustering
what you have got, and see how much
will do." A single man should be in light
marching order, and should endeavour to take
no more clothes than he could, at a pinch,
make up in a bundle and carry, groaning, on
his back for a mile.

A family should take no cumbrous furniture,
no pianos, no mangles, unless proceeding
to settle near friends in a sea-port of the colonies
where labour has become too dear to pay
for making chairs and tables. A chair that
folds up flat may be useful for "mamma," so
may a light metal bedstead; knives and forks,
pewter plates and tea-pots will be useful on
the voyage, and in town or bush; so will plated
articles, and many little household things that
weigh little, take up no great room, and sell
for nothing at an auction.

Beware of ingenious costly cabin fittings;
consult some experienced sea-going friend;
half the articles that look tempting in a showroom
are useless at sea. It is well for a
family party to have just enough to enable
them to enter the first suitable empty house
in Melbourne or Sydney, and commence
housekeeping at once, with a trunk for a seat and a
tea-chest for a table. But persons going to
the interior should remember that carriage is
dear at all times. Three pounds were paid in
December for half a horse load, for thirty
miles to the Shoalhaven diggings over a
mountain track.

Every party of not less than four should
take a small three-pole tent without the
poles. A workman may take his tools—a
digger a navvy's spade, a pick, and a heavy
crowbar; but cradles and carts, and all the
heavy paraphernalia, recommended in
ironmongers' lists, are better bought in the colony,
to which first-rate merchants are largely
shipping from the advices of their own
correspondents. Half such outfits will be found
useless, and half the remainder unserviceable.
Clothes are nearly as cheap in the colonies
as in England. They should be selected with
a view to very cold as well as warm weather.
The mining districts are subject to snow, sleet,
and torrents of rain. A large loose coat of
the best pilot cloth, made after the fashion of
a soldier's great-coat down to the heels, with
a large waterproof cape, loose sleeves, and
capacious pockets inside, is a capital travelling
companion. For Bush travelling, a full-sized
blanket is indispensable.

On board ship any old trowsers, if warm or
light enough, according to the weather, will
do. Shoes without heels on board. In the
colonies good strong Wellington boots of the
best materials, and not too tight. Waterproof
boots are a mistake; the water comes in at the
top, and stays there until let out by a hole.
In the Bush, and at the Diggings, woollen
Jerseys, blue or red, are the wear, and
blue-striped shirts, where woollen is not worn. In
the chief towns of Australia, gentlemen dress
exactly as they do in England, allowing for
the difference of climate, and, except boots,
the prices are about the same. Both woollen
and cotton stockings are needed. Hats can
be bought in the colony cheap enough; two
caps, one to be blown away, will be sufficient
for the voyage. The following is the lowest
scale of outfit required by the Government
commissioners from free passengers:

And they supply each emigrant, in return for 
the deposit of one or two pounds, with a 
mattress, bolster, blankets, counterpane, canvas 
bag, knife, fork, and drinking mug.

In the Family Colonisation Society's ships
closets are provided with cisterns, pumps, and 
taps, in which, with marine soap, the
emigrants can wash their clothes without being 
seen. This saves each emigrant at least thirty 
shillings in outfit—for two pair of stockings 
will, for example, do for the voyage—and 
should be universally adopted, as an extra five 
shillings a head on the passage-money would 
pay the ship-owner and be cheap to the
emigrants. Each passenger is also required to 
provide a mattress three feet by six feet for a 
double bed, and two feet by six feet for a 
single bed; and the following articles:—