"I have been down to Cape Chatham, and seen the great ocean itself: a very different thing from Sydney Harbour, I promise you.

You see the great cape running out a mile into the sea, and the southern rollers tumbling in over the reefs like cascades." "Let us go and see it!--how far is it ?" said Alice.
"About thirty miles.

The Barkers' station is about half a mile from the Cape, and we could sleep there, you know." "It strikes me as being a most brilliant idea," said Sam.
And so the arrangement was agreed to, and the afternoon went on pleasantly.

Alice walked up and down with Sam among the flowers, while Jim and Halbert lay beneath a mulberry tree and smoked.
They talked on a subject which had engaged their attention a good deal lately: Jim's whim for going soldiering had grown and struck root, and become a determination.

He would go back to India when Halbert did, supposing that his father could be tempted to buy him a commission.
Surely he might manage to join some regiment in India, he thought.
India was the only place worth living in just now.
"I hope, Halbert," he said, "that the Governor will consent.