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A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBookTitle: Across the UnknownAuthor: Stewart Edward White and Harwood WhiteeBook No.: 0500091.txtEdition: 1Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: Latin-1(ISO-8859-1)--8 bitDate first posted: January 2005Date most recently updated: January 2005Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editionswhich are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright noticeis included. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particularpaper edition.Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check thecopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing thisfile.This eBook is made available at no cost and with almost no restrictionswhatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the termsof the Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online athttp://gutenberg.net.au/licence.htmlTo contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http://gutenberg.net.auTitle: Across the UnknownAuthor: Stewart Edward White and Harwood White----------------------------"It is essential to linger frequently on the frontierof one's limitations, looking out eagerly across the unknown."----------------------------AUTHOR'S NOTETHE PRESENT VOLUME, like its predecessor The Betty Book, is a matter ofcollaboration in which so many people have been involved that it isdifficult to name an author for its title page. There were of course,those who gave us the material on which it is based--the Invisibles;anonymous and probably numerous. There was Betty who transmitted it.There was I, who took it down and typed it and filed it in loose-leafbooks. And finally there was my brother, Harwood, to join us in selectingand arranging and digesting and presenting in a form acceptable andvaluable to others outside our small group. No trifling job, this last,for by the time we got at it, we had over two thousand single-spaced
 
pages out of which to quarry about three hundred double spaced pages oftext. It is for the form, then, that we on the title page assumeresponsibility.For the sake of clarity it should be mentioned that whenever the pronounhe first person comes into the narrative, it refers to myself. The reasonfor this is that it seemed wise, to all of us, to illustrate occasionallyby actual individual experience.STEWART EDWARD WHITECONTENTSPART IEXPLORATIONChap. 1. OUTFITTINGChap. 2. FAMILIAR GROUNDChap. 3. BORDER COUNTRYChap. 4. PIONEER METHODSChap. 5. THE JUMPING-OFF PLACEChap. 6. LANDMARKSChap. 7. BACK COUNTRYChap. 8. THE LAY OF THE LANDChap. 9. PORTAGEChap. 10. THE GREAT ADVENTUREPART IIDEVELOPMENTChap. 1. DISTANT RANGESChap. 2. TENDERFOOTChap. 3. PERMANENT CAMPChap. 4. BLAZED TRAMChap. 5. PASTUREChap. 6. EXCURSIONSChap. 7. HOMESTEADChap. 8. EASY STAGESPART IIIUSEChap. 1. PRODUCTIONChap. 2. NATURAL RESOURCES
 
Chap. 3. DISTRIBUTIONChap. 4. FABRICATIONChap. 5. SUPERVISIONChap. 6. TECHNIQUEChap. 7. NEW TERRITORYChap. 8. COUNTRY BEYONDChap. 9. I BEAR WITNESSTHE ACTS of your days on days make a certain-shaped thing of you. Then inthe rhythm of life the influences too big for control strike a sharp blowor stroke or influence or vibration of some kind, that overcomes your ownplan or sense of direction. And this same stroke arranges yourrelationships quite automatically. Suddenly you fit into the place wherethe thing you shaped will go with mathematical nicety. It is as though alot of scattered things were dancing about; and CLAP! they were all in apattern. You call it fate, or luck, or destiny, but all the time it isjust the preparation of your days on days, your own deliberate handiwork.It is as though we were all put through graded sieves that suddenlyreveal our sizes to ourselves; where usually we are all so mixed togetherthat you could not measure. No amount of jiggling could shake you into aplace you did not fit, for which you had not shaped yourself. Only whenyou are too inert to shape yourself, are you at the mercy of the PatternMaker.ACROSS THE UNKNOWNPART IEXPLORATIONTHE STRUGGLE of each generation is the interpretation of the whisperedallotment of wisdom into the current vernacular. You are at the turningof a great tide. Who is there to offer guidance in the age-proventechnique of living, and yet point ahead to the regions we are appointedto explore? We arraign your generation for its failure to establish faithin the proven laws of living. Will you not voice it in this book ofyours? Let honest conviction ring out; and strike a new note ofresponsibility.What an awful region of words I've come to! I don't like them; they'rejust empty clamshells standing for things that aren't there!I am greatly handicapped by my seeing the subject. Seeing the subjectmakes it too big for the words, and they stumble.
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