60 NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING. 
The work of stocking this dry country is a slow and lab 
s, and there has been a considerable amount of hard 
danger attached to it, but within the last four or five 
‘many stations have been made and so much country fenced 
to 
country has been going on faster round Cobar for some: 
five years past than in any other part of the Colony, the 
supply tank. 
5 filled sooner or later, a large 
men is set to work with drays, ploughs, scoops, and t€ 
horses or bullocks, to excavate a permanent tank, water 
draught animals in th 
) lony is generally weary work, but 
tank is filled and chasell ae on sosslly phe a 
The station-buildings are erected, stock bought, and %¢ 
-sinkers set to work in all directions, drawing 
of water in drays or waggons from the first 
course if there are a few good gilgies that will h 
or three months scattered about the run there will 
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