The following dosoription of v visit to Cook* town is taken frora a lottor roooived by a (gentleman in Melbourne :— " A stranger unacquainted witb tbe many miseries of Cook* town coming suddenly from tho most populated part of tho diggings, would fchink that tbo day of resurrection had arrivod, all tho men looking so ghost-like and super-natural, You oannot find a middle-conditioned man on the digging, all beiog so thin that their bones actually protrude through their skin ; in faot, although I have been io the army and almost every oountry in the world, I never oame aoross suoh Wretohed looking people, nor ever lived in saoh » wretohed' oountry m that north of Queensland."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 2684, 2 November 1876, Page 3
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