JOURNEY NORTHWARD II5 



collections and extra baggage, and to get supplies for the 

 journey. Here we found the Hall family, Mrs. Hall and 

 the children having come in for three or four days to enjoy 

 the sea beach and the people of the town. We found the 

 custom of bringing the women and children in to town for 

 a week or more each year for an outing to be quite general. 

 It certainly is appreciated by those who are from five to 

 twenty miles from a neighbor. I paid Paddy his can of 

 pears. Here we sold the shotgun, our stove and two of 

 the saddle horses, Colorado and Paddy, losing a little on 

 the one but making it up on the other. I hated to leave 

 Colorado, the horse which had carried me over 1500 miles, 

 and while not smooth gaited, was strong and willing, and 

 especially good when working on the cinch helping to pull 

 the wagon. Shumway regretted as much to part with 

 Paddy, his practical teacher and companion. It took until 

 ten the next morning to get all the papers for the horse 

 sales made out and recorded. Then while Billy and Turner 

 packed the collections, greased and loaded the wagon, etc., 

 Shumway and I borrowed a couple of horses and rode eight 

 or nine miles up the beach to make a section across the 

 Notostylopus beds, and if possible to find an extension of 

 their exposure. The first job we did, but the latter proved 

 impossible, and we only found a few more teeth and then 

 abandoned the search for more bones in this bed. 



Wednesday morning we left Mazaredo with a gale of 

 wind and dust in our faces, with but one saddle horse and 

 three men on the wagon or walking to vary the monotony 

 of the journey. Thus lightly loaded we passed Kelly's 

 about noon, and kept on as far as Bain's. We hoped to 

 camp at this house, but found the yard full of the camps of 

 shearers and freighters, and the grass and feed all cleaned 

 up by them, so we went on around the corner of the fence 

 and camped on a spring which he had there. The day had 

 netted fully forty miles. On the next day the wind again 

 continued from the north, the first strong north wind we 



