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ing them in a yard that could not be got out of in a hurry 
was not attractive to the hands who had to be so much 
amongst them. As for John Barker, he laughed at their 
fears, but one day he was doing the drafting in the lane, 
which was, if possible, more closely fitted than the rest of it ; 
a lively buck more than twelve months old took him from 
behind, and when John was helped over that fence, his 
language was out of the common ; the wound took some weeks 
tu heal, and gave him ample time to reconsider the question 
of closely-fitting rails. I am under the impression that foot 
holes had been cut in them before I next saw the yard. 
From Walla we rode on to Gin Gin, which, at that time, 
belonged to Messrs. A. and A. Brown; they bought it from 
William Forster, who afterwards became Premier of a New 
South Wales Ministry. A. P. Barton had bought from the 
Browns the country embracing the heads of Gin Gin Creek, 
and was still busy over his improvements. We struck the 
Kolan River about eight miles further on, and Munduran 
station, then owned by W. H. Walsh and his partners. 
Bernard Witt was in charge of it ; formerly it had belonged to 
James Landsborough, but he had moved on with his family 
to Raglan. The next station we came to was Kolongo, 
where resided William Harvey Holt, who afterwards moved 
North to Glen Prairie. Holt was the great horse authority 
in that locality, and there was no other who could sell a horse 
to so great advantage. The freedom with which he named 
scientifically every bone and muscle of a horse excited the 
admiration of all his friends. We all liked him, though his 
“ jaw-breakers ” were more than most fellows could under- 
stand. He was away from home when Mullett and I arrived 
there, but he had in charge a ‘“‘ supreme’ young man, who, 
from his conversation might have been thought to be the 
owner of the station, and a few others as well. He was really 
a “‘ jackaroo.” 
In these modern times the road northwards from Kolongo 
surmounts a rough range and crosses the Kolan at Toweran. 
In 1861, it kept a more easterly course, and struck the river 
at Wocogo station, which was then occupied by Huxham. 
Wocogo has disappeared and Toweran, some miles higher up 
the river, has taken its place. From this station the road 
ascends a low range, which, as a difficulty in the way of traffic, 
