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torture to which Red Indians used sometimes to con- 

 demn their enemies. Its skin was literally eaten, and 

 they buried what remained under the gum-sapling to 

 which it 'had been tied. In the meantime the mother, 

 perishing with thirst, had been found by a shepherd 

 near the township. He brought her there, and she told 

 her story. The search party returned, and a black 

 boy, riding ahead, met her and blurted out the news 

 of what they had discovered. On hearing it the woman 

 lost her reason, and died soon afterwards in the asylum 

 of the district." 



Captain Gambier during his seventy odd years of 

 adventurous life once had the unpleasant experience of 

 being lost in the Australian bush. In telling the story 

 of the adventure he justly pays tribute to the remark- 

 able intelligence of his horse, which alone saved him 

 from a terrible death. 1 He says: "Though I had 

 looked Death in the face many times before, and fre- 

 quently since, I never felt such a disinclination to come 

 nearer to him as I did when I lost my way in the 

 bush. I had gone out with the stockmen to bring 

 in cattle from a distant part of the station, but had 

 to return to the head station for a horse, my second 

 animal having fallen with me coming down a steep 

 hill, spraining his fetlock. I felt no doubt I could 

 find my way back alone, and this I succeeded in doing, 

 for, acting on the advice of the stockmen, I left it 

 a good deal to the horse. I got to the station late 

 in the evening, having ridden close on sixty miles 

 under me one of the most wonderful horses I had 

 ever seen a roan called Badger, who on a previous 

 occasion had carried me close on a hundred and ten 

 1 See Bibliography, 9. 



