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minutes we were all drenched to the skin, and there was not time — 
to put on extra covering, though it” became very cold. . :* -* #5 
Soon we heard the roar of waters, and a furious flood came rush- : 
ing along our track, roaring and hissing, and reminding one of a — 
cascade. * * * We contrived, with much difficulty, to get the — 
cart up a height to the left of the road, and when the moon — 
broke out from the clouds about midnight we saw that we were 
on a nearly bare porphyry hill without any neighbouring wood, 
save a few dead trees, and we had first to cut down one of them 
before we could make a fire. At last we did so, and by the morn- 
ing we had dried our clothes, but as it was impossible to put up 
any canvas for a covering, we had to pass the night the best way 
we could.” And again, from page 120:—“On Friday, 19th, we 
proceeded * * * * # to g swampy springy mountain about 
6,000 feet above the sea, above Wadymandouree and Buckwong 
Creeks, which run into the Indi or Upper Hume. It was difficult — 4 
to find a spot on which to lay our blankets on account of the bull- 
dog ants. But we had scarcely done so when a most furious tem- 
pest came on, and we were deluged with rain. * * * We were 
up and on our way at 5 a.m., and wending through dense scrub as 4 
we could we travelled, as yesterday, along a succession of schistose — 
spurs, strewn with innumerable fallen trees to a swamp ; and then 
ascending a low range at Wanga, came to the Indi at Piaderra, — 
where we crossed it. No sooner had we reached this den of heat, — 
damp and flies, than another tempest more furious than that of — 
the preceding night pounced upon us. We camped, however, — 
beyond the brush and spent Sunday. Then I became very ill. — 
base Next morning we started a little before 5 o'clock, and after some — 
_ flirtation with scrub, low and steep hills and flat ‘ : 
_ Vertical wall of slate to Woolayian, and descended instantly just 
_ 48 steeply the other side of a knife-edge, to a swiftly flowing, me 
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