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Friday<t/9/22 - Finish unloading the ¢argoc, Get my stores & 
gear sorted out & weighed,as the carrier charges by weight,not 
measurenent as by the boat. ly lot weiehed a ton, just the half 
of the measurement, “Agter lunch I go out to see if I could ; 
get an Emu;found fresh tracks on the voad near where I saw the 
birds yesterday, Giréle round & out the tracks again on the 
saltpans; follow them in & out ror a couple of miles, then catch — 
Sight of the birds on a timbered sand-ridge at the edge of the 
3 Saltpans. Tey to stalk them, they caught sight or me & made org 
imitate the call of the young, without success, Bollow ‘| ae Sandee 
“direction taken by the birds but could not Locate them cain, in 
| “Return to whart. Bill Shephard had arrived. with another poke i 
i team, aweioe ‘ads “ue WEEE. loaded ready for a start in. the 
morning. 
Saturday-9/9/22 ~ Set the Aneroié at sea level, 36 am, I get 
oft before the waggon & teams. Haye a finel search round for 
| the Jamas, bat do not see any gi ign of them, tho pairs of tree= 
ercepers, (C." ne Lane: ota.) & @ party of Sitellas,(S striata.) — 
were seen & watebed for vome time,no result,Reach Silver pledng age 
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3tn & stay for lunch, On the road again ;wox vk’ through severe 
in thi flate; Bo not Boe any Parrakeete , ( (2 obrysopteryeius, 
find any of this years old nests; I wanted to get som ; 
0 as to see if the emerging of the insects coincide 
7 “breeding of the Parrakeets, J paix of Treecret 
for some ‘tine , ,T felt sure th 6y hed. a ‘nest, bu 
Reach: our eo 
ye, Hothing else of interest seen, 
iy miget (Bish cane) ,2 legoon 13 miles 2x0 
