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we have to start on our three gallons, with which we 

 have to be very sparing, as this has to last us for 

 another ten miles. 



Dinner being over we harness up and get going. 

 The roads are now much easier to get over and we do 

 not stop until we reach our next stage, which is 

 Larkin's Water Holes. Here we find a few Mountain 

 Magpies, some Mealy Rosellas, and one or two 

 Crimson-winged Parrots. The White Hawk is found 

 in this district ; it is a lovely bird, pure white, yellow 

 legs, and orange-coloured eyes. We have on several 

 occasions shot this bird, but have never been success- 

 ful in catching it alive, as they are very scarce. 



The horses are once again attended to and then 

 we prepare for supper, but before we can have the last 

 meal of the day we have to make some bread. It may be 

 of interest to give our way of making bread. One of us 

 makes a "damper," as the Bushmen call it, or dough, 

 in the following way : about 4 or 5 lbs. flour, one table- 

 spoonful cream of tartar, one teaspoonful carbonate of 

 soda, and the same quantity of salt ; this is then 

 mixed into a stiff dough. During this time the other 

 has been preparing a big fire, The dough is then 

 placed in a tin dish and put in front of the fire. When 

 the fire has practically burnt itself to nothing but a 

 glowing red mass of charcoal, a hole is made in the 

 centre, into which the dough is put, and the red-hot 

 ashes heaped all over it. It is then left for about half- 

 an-hour, when the rising of the bread causes all the 

 embers to crack. We then rake it out of the fire and 

 with a bunch of grass beat off all the cinders and 

 ashes that are clinging to it, and then we have our 

 bush-made bread. This making; will last us about 



