Wallahj-Jmn ting. — Forest Scenery. 3 7 



hatus). The kangaroo proper have long since retreated before 

 ciyilization, and are now only found in the recesses of 

 the forest, hundreds of miles inland. The various partici- 

 pators in the hunt were posted at certain distances in 

 one of the splendid forests, stretching between the Bellambi- 

 Keira and Kemla ranges of hills, while the blacks who 

 accompanied us set forth to drive the game towards us, 

 assisted by their Dingoes, a kind of dog usually supposed 

 to be originally of European race. The blacks use the 

 term " Dingo" promiscuously for every description of 

 dog, whereas the regular wild dog, or rather the dog 

 that runs wild in Australia, is called in the native tongue 

 " Warrigul," and is of no particular breed, but seems rather 

 a mongrel descendant of the sheep dog. 



The hunt was not very successful, and of some ten or 

 twelve started by the ''beaters," only two were killed. 

 Although one can discern the Wallaby at some distance by 

 its plashing tramp, so that it seems but to need a glance of 

 the eye to bring it down as it flies past on its hind legs, fol- 

 lowed close by the dogs, it yet needs great activity and pre- 

 cision of aim to hit the nimble animal as it hops swiftly past. 



Yet though we were rewarded with such poor sport, our 

 stay among the splendid woods of the Keira range sufficiently 

 repaid us. The most varied and luxm-iant forms of vegeta- 

 tion, changing at every step, almost transcend the wanderer's 

 power of description by their marvellous and enrapturing 

 beauty. Some portions of the forest landscape, where splendid 



