CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Devoted attachment of Women— Remarkable instance of 

 this, exemplified in the tale of an Australian savage — 

 Journey resumed— Botanical productions — The Munne- 

 munne range— Luxuriant Plain— Mr. Warby's farm— The 

 bell bird— Junction of the Murrumbidgee and Tumat 

 rivers—Native names of rivers—Soil— River cod—Aquatic 

 fowl — The Tumat country — Fertility of the plains— As- 

 signed servants — A mountainous range — The Murrum- 

 bidgee Pine— Geological character of the vicinity — Mr. 

 Rose's cattle station 247 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Wooded hills — Base of the Bugong mountains — Multitudes 

 of the Bugong moths — Timber trees and granite rocks — 

 Snow movmtains — Method of collecting the moths — 

 Use of these insects — Crows — Height of the Bugong 

 mountains — The aborigines — Dread of ridicule in the 

 females — Native fine arts — Lyre-bird of the colonists — 

 Destruction of kangaroos and emus — The station of Been 

 — Sanguinary skirmishes — A fertile plain — Cattle paths — 

 Shrubs on the banks of the Tumat . . . 265 



CHAPTER XV. 



Kangaroo hunt — Ferocity of that animal — Use of its tendons 

 — The culinary parts —Haunts of the kangaroo —A death 

 struggle — Dissection of a kangaroo— Preservation of hu- 



