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CHAPTER XIV. 



Wooded hills — Base of the Bugong mountains — Multitudes 

 of the Bugeitg mol^^ — Timber trees and granite rocks— 

 Smw tnoinitaBis Method ^ collecting the moths— 

 1^ «f these insects— Ct©w»— Height of the Bugong 



mountains — The aborigines— Dread of ridicule in the 

 females— Native fine arts — Lyre-bird of the colonists — 

 Bestrtrcll^R ^ngio^oos and emm^Thte tUlim of 

 — Sajiguinary skirmishes— A fertile ptdu — Cattle paths — 

 Shrubs on the banks of t)ie Tumat* 



Near iMi station m a k% taMe^mdttntaiii, 

 rising ^ik>ve numej^QFias wooded hills, varying 

 in theit degrees of ^ImMlmy as man in the 

 accompanying engraving : it forms tlie coni- 

 menccmciit of n mountainous rano-o, cxtcnd- 

 ui'^ in a soLith-wcst direction. It is naintid the 

 " liugong Mountain/' from the circuHi>tan<'e 

 of mnltitudes of small mothSj mih^ Bugong 

 by the aborigines, ©ongre^tixig at eertain 

 months o\' ilu yi^ar al)ont m(L$scs of granite 

 on thiji HUfl other pcu-t* of the range. The 



