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time for the next three years, during which there were many ' incidents,' chiefly 

 skirmishes with blacks, periods of short rations, floods and accidents. It is rather 

 a long interval of time from then to now, and I cannot trust my memory to relate 

 the various happenings with any degree of accuracy. Had the incidents been fewer, 

 the task would have been easier. My work for some years after this trip lay chiefly 

 in the Lower Gulf country and the border of the Northern Territory. 



" J. T. EMBLEY. 

 "MELBOURNE, 2ist January, 1919." 



