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swim was en joyed licrc l)y most of the party. Tlie sand teemed 

 ^\•itll myriads of tiny red cral)S, \\hicli hurriedly entered their 

 holes on our approach. 



Cutting off the northern end of Norman Bay, we approached 

 Leonard Bay, and on the headland found the Angular Pigface, 

 Mesemhryantheminn ccquilaterale, the large red fruit of which 

 we found most palatable. Leaving Leonard Bay, we made 

 inland to the main track, and so back to the Darby River camp, 

 to find a tea of rock-cod, caught and prepared for us by the 

 tw^o who had elected to remain at home. Some thirty odd 

 people gathered round the camp-fire that evening. Old camp 

 songs w^ere sung and stories old and new told w^hile the billies 

 boiled and the larder was ransacked for delicacies. A vote of 

 thanks was passed to the ranger, Mr. Cripps, w'ho had done 

 so much to make the camp a success. 



Next morning our last swiifi dowm the Darby, our last surf 

 in the ocean, was taken. The camp was dismantled, and in 

 the afternoon eleven happy, sunburnt people, hugging treasures 

 too precious to go in the buggy as general luggage, were to be 

 seen tracking across to the shore of Corner Inlet, there to find 

 our boat in full sail awaiting us on the evening tide, though it 

 was the next tide before w^e started for home, wdth " Teddy 

 Dincombe," a wee ball of grey, entering on his first sea 

 voyage. 



Teddy Dincombe Fuzzy Wuzzy, now a year old, resides at 

 Hawthorn, permitted to do so by a permit issued by the Fisheries 

 and Game Department. He has doubled in size since we captured 

 him. He has his full freedom, which sometimes he abuses ; 

 but who can blame him when a hundred or more gum-trees nod 

 and wave their heads to him and invite him over to their side 

 of the fence ? Those who see him in the daytime or during his 

 evening meal would get a surprise to see him racing up and 

 down the trees and jumping from bough to bough. Some- 

 times he walks •" Blondin " on a paling fence for a couple of 

 hundred feet or so, then, jumping off, will gallop across an open 

 space of several hundred feet to the nearest tree, into which he 

 digs his claws and races up. You may go after him and call 

 and call, but Teddy Dincombe will come down when it suits 

 him. It may be soon, with a quick rim, a few sharp snorts, 

 and a jump, and he is on to you ; or it may be a day or two 

 later, when, tired of solitude, he will come creeping down, put 

 liis cold kid nose on to your neck, his fore-paws pn your 

 shoulder, and drop into your arms. He is fond of company, 

 and likes being nursed. In the evening he will wander round 

 tlie house until he finds someone who is sitting still ; then he 

 will climb up and go to sleep. 



As regards food, he has very strong likes nnd dislikes. 



