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(Still on Hast side of Woakwine, p. 151), ‘‘We reached Lake Hawden—a fat, 
swampy plain, which, in the rain season, is covered with water, There is good 
pasturage in the surrounding country, which rises into gently undulating 
hills lightly wooded with she-oals.*’ 
(April 29, p, 151). They fell in with Scott’s party, whose ‘‘sheep were folded 
in two large stockyards, which they had erected of boughs, and their horses 
were tethered near their encampment, This was rudely constructed of reeds, 
and not nearly so snug as the buts of the natives, , , ,’’ 
(April 30, p. 152). ‘'.... we travelled onwards across a succession of soft, 
spongy swamps, the gronnd being full of holes, and completely undermined 
by the rats. The sheep stuek in the holes, and could gcareely proceed for the 
long grass, which caused us considerable delay, Tufts of a gigantic species of 
plume grass (Gahnia. psittacorwm), with sharp-edged leaves, grew in yast 
quantities upon several of the fats, and others were scattered over with heaps 
of dead shells of a reverse bullimus; occasional swamp parrots fluttered up 
from the grass, and a few striped wallaby were met with during the day.” 
(p. 153), ‘'.,..we were in the midst of densa thickets which merged into a low 
scrubby forest of stringy bark, without any distinguishing objects of any 
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(Probably traversing the Woakwine, p. 153). Cooey-ing to a lost bullock driver, 
‘*.... The voices of the natives uttering their loud shrill cooey echoed along 
the undulating and wooded ground, rising on each side of a vast swampy 
plain which we had traversed for several miles... .’’ 
(On to W. side of Woakwine, flats between Woakwine and Lake George, p. 155), 
(May 2), ‘‘We penetrated thick woods, among which the elegant cores, then 
in blossom, attained a considerable height ; and we crossed more spongy plains, 
covered with shells and tufa ‘* bisenits*’ and subject to oceasional inundations. 
Low wooded ranges skirted these plains, and kangaroos were abundant, Some 
of these swamps were covered with an exceedingly rich black soil, and pro- 
duced luxuriant sow-thistles and other rank vegetation ; the more solid plains 
were overspread with beautiful green feed, and it was evident we were once 
more approaching a good country.”’ 
(p. 156), ‘We came so suddenly upon a native encampment amongst the trees, 
that the savages had barely time to take alarm at our horses’ hoofs, and we 
could just distinguish their heels as they scampered away beneath the bushes. 
... The party we had thus uneeremoniously disturbed had evidently as- 
sembled to a convivial dinner, for there were two large wombats roasting in 
in the ovens, several choice heaps of roots lay amongst the ashes, and a fine 
parrot, not yet cooked, was suspended to a stick. In their precipitate flight 
they had left all their things behind them—spears, baskets, snaring rods, 
and a variety of curious implements; these we examined and left precisely 
as we found them,,..’’ 
(Opposite Rivoli Bay, p, 156), ‘We found an extensive swamp intervening 
between us and the shores of the bay and as we progressed it became more 
difficult to eross, being covered with sharp dense reeds and tea-tree 
bushes. _..”” 
(Rivoli Bay, p. 157). (May 3). ‘‘Long before sunrise we were moying to 
travel across on foot to Rivoli Bay ....we had to brush through grass and 
matted reeds breast-high. On a grasay knoll, surrounded by she-osks, we met 
