Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — Risks in Queensland. [ARTICLE]

Risks in Queensland.

There are risks and discomforts innumerable, as well as pleasures, to the artist who goes flower hunting in Queensland. It is what bushmen call a bad snake country, though, as compared with Southern Australia, a much smaller proportion of the snakes are vonomous. Walking down an alligator path on the Pioneer river, Mrs. Rowan kicked what she thought was a gray stick from her path, but which turned out to be a venomous snake. Sketching some great blue water lilies as large as a cheese plate, about which scarlet dragon flies fluttered in their coat of mail, something touched her cheek, which she brushed aside in mistake for a worm, but a Second glance showed a long tree snake swinging by its tail. Among the discomforts is the nettle tree, which, whether it is grasped gently or firmly, leaves hands swollen and stinging for days .