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near way, but a bad road, to the Snowy river, 

 near to its junction with the Bucban. 



" Two bullock teams were camped on tbe 

 road, and tbe drivers were sitting smoking on 

 a log after eating tbeir dinner. As we passed 

 them Bovill got the bellows and tube and 

 commenced blowing into the cans. One 

 bullock-driver started to bis feet with a face 

 of astonishment, and an untranslatable ex- 

 clamation. I fancy we must have been taken 

 by him for a party of escaped lunatics, come 

 over the mountains from the Beechworth 

 Asylum. Both men stood looking after us 

 till lost to sight in the windings of the road. 

 The incident afforded us a good hearty laugh 

 for some time after. 



"We came to the Tara Creek, on the water- 

 shed of the Snowy — a beautiful small stream 

 of water clear as crystal. It did not taste 

 well, however, and I could not see a single 

 fish after examining it for a long distance, and 

 did not liberate any fish there. After a very 

 rough road, we at last arrived at a hill close 

 to the Buchan river, and from this point the 

 fish were carried on horseback, in small cans, 

 over very precipitous country ; and 200 were 



