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CHAPTER XIV. 



Wooded hills — Base of the Bugong mountains — Multitudes 

 of the Bugong moths — Timber trees and granite rocks — 

 Snow mountains — 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. 



Near this station is a lofty table-mountain, 

 rising above numerous wooded hills, varying 

 in their degrees of elevation, as seen in the 

 accompanying engraving : it forms the com- 

 mencement of a mountainous range, extend- 

 ing in a south-west direction. It is named the 

 " Bugong Mountain," from the circumstance 

 of multitudes of small moths, called Bugong 

 by the aborigines, congregating at certain 

 months of the year about masses of granite 

 on this and other parts of the range. The 



