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CHAPTER Viri, 



Bredalbane Plains— Forest country— Cockatoos and parrots 

 ^Feeollir sp&^es 6f llzsid iribe^MiediclQat treis — 

 Batrk of the wattle trees- Mr. Manton*s farm — Picturesque 

 vieir— Yas jplains— Encampment of natives — Stringy bark, 

 W W tree — ^Use of tliat plan*— Native Wethtid of cooking 

 —The Atistvalian jjregiFO— Oame—The flyiag Sipirrel— 



Human diimney-oriiamonts — -Clonks of opossum or kan- 

 garoo skins — Barbarous ceremonies — Women not admitted 

 to tlie confidence the males. 



On the 3rd of October we resumed our journey, 

 taking a bush path for* ft Bhori dist^cje, xm^l 

 we emerged upon ** Bredalbane Plams,'*^ great 

 porfiOJL of which is very swampy, and during 

 heavy rains overflown. Pasi^iiig a cattle stittion, 

 the propi'vty of Mr. Cliishohn, we IiskI a \ i('\v of 

 another pUiiii, or more eorreetly niarsb, (^naiiied 



the third Bredalteaxe abmmdiiig bx reeds ; 

 here sevei^ teds ojf the hs$m «peeies> Imoim by 

 the iiarae of tiie native companioii,'* (Ardea 



