KANGAROO DOGS. ' 
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On the 25th I detained the party in camp, that I 
might get our sheep shorn, and send to Port Lin- 
coln to inquire if there were any more letters for me 
by Dr. Harvey’s little boat, which was expected to 
arrive to-day. Mr. Scott, who rode into the settle- 
ment, returned in the afternoon. 
October 26. — Sending the dray on under the 
guidance of the native boy, I rode with Mr. Scott 
up to Mr. White’s station to wish him good bye, 
and to make another effort to secure an additional 
dog or two ; finding that he would not sell the noble 
mastiff I so much wished to have, I bought from him 
two good kangaroo dogs, at rather a high price, with 
which I hastened on after the drays, and soon overtook 
them, but not before my new dogs had secured two 
fine kangaroos. For the first few miles we crossed 
a low flat country, which afterwards became undu- 
lating and covered with dwarf scrub, after this we 
passed over barren ridges for about three miles, 
with quartz lying exposed on the surface and tim- 
bered by the bastard gum or forest casuarinae. We 
then descended to a level sandy region, clothed with 
small brush, and having very many salt lakes 
scattered over its surface; around the hollows in 
which these waters were collected, and occasionally 
around basins that were now dry, we found large 
trees of the gum, together with a few casuarinae. 
A very similar kind of low country appeared to ex- 
tend far to the eastward and north-west. 
Kangaroos were very numerous, especially near 
