CHAPTER V. Nuisances of Adelaide — Dust storm—Dogs—Natives—King Jack —A native entertainment — Physical aspect of the Aborigines — Their moral condition. It was, doubtless, very pleasing to reflect, that a town containing five thousand inhabitants, with newspapers, clubs, stores, banks, churches, a Mechanics’ Institute, a Natural History Association, and a Joint-Stock Company, had been created in three years by the magic power of systematic colonization ; and all this in the midst of an untrodden wilderness. It is true that the city was not very compact; that the streets were unpaved, and over shadowed by unsightly gum-trees; that in wet weather you were ankle deep in a most retentive and clayey mud ; and that you had sometimes to encounter a dust storm analogous to the brickfielders of Sydney, in which tons of clayey earth, converted by heat into the finest particles, were carried aloft by whirlwinds, or driven with the im petuosity of a white squall over the devoted city, pene trating through the key-holes and the smallest crevices of your houses, and enveloping your furniture with a mate rial which might have been taken for cephalic snuff. One such visitation I remember to have witnessed on a Sunday afternoon, just as the good people of Adelaide