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CHAPTER V. 



Our journey resumed — The new roacl — Koad-sitle flowers — ► 

 Blacklieadi — ^Tlie pass through Mount Vittoria — ^Talent 

 and perseverance of Major Mitchell, the surveyor-general 

 — Appearance of an iron gang — Leave tlic Blue Mountain 

 t^^e— >Al¥ive at Collet's lun — Resume our journey to- 

 wards IMim—'l^tw line of feai-^A&j^eet iSie eomtsty — 

 Arrival at Mr. Walker's farra^ — Residence of Mr» Dal- 

 hunty — Hoge moimds of clay — Blackman's Crown — Gum- 

 iafee»--Bugls ^tenmg~-Bnisaiflp ^ the night-43aution 

 to tra¥efletfr-42herry-tree HiU*— A deserted station — 

 Encampment of Aborigines — Tlie musk duck— PrtHlut c 

 of Mr. Cox's dairy-iarm — Mount Brace — lufauticitlc — 

 Custom of native wotnenj relative to their al^panz^-^ 

 Native practice of niiduifery — Aiiinuil called tlie Cola— 

 Belief in the doctrine of metempsychosis. 



On the followiBtg moiriiiiig, about seveti A^Uiy 

 iiWvr u good night's re\iOie mi an excellent 

 lircakfa-t, \\ v rcsmiu'd oiir journey ; tin- nir \\n6 

 kcoUj bill iiur so piercing as on the picviuus 



