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throw her, but she lay down quietly and submitted to have the 

 spear-head cut out without a struggle. The head was buried four 

 inches deep, and had a bone barb about an inch and a half long. 

 She appeared in great agony and very sick, and DIED before morning. 



Hearing the natives cooee after we had got into camp, Crosbie, 

 Charlie and I went back on our track to near the scene of the 

 disaster, and waited for some time in the hope that they would 

 show themselves, but they did not. 



We camped on the left bank of a gully overlooking the valley 

 [of the NISBET RIVER. R. L. J.] dividing the MC!LWRAITH from 

 the MACROSSAN RANGE. (CAMP 23.) [We probably crossed KEN- 

 NEDY'S TRACK of November, 1848, before arriving at our Camp 23. 

 R.L.J.] 



