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CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| Crab's Contradictions—French Fashions penetrate into the Interior of Van Diemen's Land—A Parson wanted—Smoking a Ship—A Plot discovered—A Disguise, and a new Adventure | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| First Appearance in a new Character—The Disguise Discovered—The Struggle—Three to One too much—An Apartment for a single Gentleman | 25 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Necessity the Mother of Invention—Advantage of a good Memory—An anatomical Experiment—Courage and Perseverance overcome all Difficulties—An unexpected Meeting—The mysterious Letter gives a Clue to a Hiding-place—Search of the Red House | 38 |
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| The Colonial Constable—The Track in the Snow—Seven-mile Beach—The Desolate Hut—The Discovery—Baulked again | 56 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Consultation—Middle-aged Gentlemen get tired of Adventures at Last—The Track Regained—An extempore Dinner and fresh Oysters—A new Horror | 68 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Who is the Murderer and the Victim?—A Settler's Fare—An Excuse for a Glass of Grog—Kangaroos in Miniature—The Chase | 84 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Chase—Scroggs' Pathos—Confirmation of the Fugitive—Unexpected Information—A Sailor on Horseback—A new Arrival | 100 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Van Diemen's Land Jockey—Swopping—The Chase Renewed—Retributive Justice—The Natives—New Dangers | 124 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Winter in Van Diemen's Land—The Pursuit of the Black Fellows—Native Habitations—News of the Child | 145 |
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| A Native Encampment—Conference with Musqueeto—A Savage has a Soul—The lost Child recovered—How to Catch an Opossum—A Kangaroo Hunt by the Natives—The Apparition of Spears and Waddies excites disagreeable Suspicions | 162 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| AKangaroo Hunt by the Natives—They recognise an old Enemy—The Flight—The Skirmish—The Attack Renewed—Scroggs's generous Devotion—Return to the Clyde—Crab resolves to leave the Country | 184 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| How Crab sold his Sheep—The Embarrassment of Riches—Crab's Misadventures—He resolves to leave the Colony | 211 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Reasons for Emigrating—Breeding of Sheep—Advice to Emigrants | 234 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Fourteen Years pass by—The Emigrant's Wealth—A Letter from the Gypsey's Daughter—Death of Crab | 266 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| CONCLUSION | 287 |
