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CHAPTER XIL 



Hftgir0 isn^^Thdr tenacity of life— Eetixm to Yas Pld nd— 

 ^Ch© Anetxtalm raspberry — Native cherry-tree — The suHi- 



mcr season — Tree ho]>pers— Tlieir clamour — Gannets — 

 Country about the Turaat river— Bugolong — The Black 

 Mng«— A storm— "Viclflity of Tiv«i«— H&tive blacfei-* 



Tliuir costuinc and weapons; — Wbcat-fickls— Destnacl^ve 

 birds — Winding course of tlie Murrumbidgee. 



of the ^Sbod^mf C^nlji ApslmlasN^ Bw,*) 



were seen about the ]ii% at Gjidl«%%r>** md 



the Iiowling of the kan^^aroo dogs during the 

 nio'lit, was the first iiidieation of tlicir ]iro\vliiig 

 about ; tlit'y are thcj wolves of the colouy, and 

 are perhcips unequalled fe? etmnmg- These 



* Hut little doubt exists in the minds of naturalists thst 

 this animal is not indigenous to Australia ; it$ not being 

 witli in Viflii ttenMro*s Land (when alt the other genem 

 peculiar to Australia fire $bmd tliere) will rather tend to 

 confirm the hypothesis. 



