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the edge of the mexinh the cowmtry isa vory rough and does not 
appear to be worth a closer inspeotion; to the west it is all 
forest country with fdat s 1 few small patches of serub scattered 
through hts I can just cateh sight of a hill near the camp, it 
_ isa good seven miles from here. Return to where we left the — 
horses and start off to the south but do not seis very far, as in 
the ‘gountry is +00 rough to ride through; head back to the rok 
os and return to the running ereek, follow it up for a couple it 
miles to where it comes out of a big gorge ax ‘the higher part of 
the range ; Adimount end try the serub here for a few. hundred . 
| yards it is fairly good but there is very Little bird Life in | 
ite Rifle bird, (C,alberti), Pigeons, (Usassinilis, P.superbus, . : . 
C. chrysochiora), Thrush, (P.xufigaster ). Honey-eaters, (Z.analoga, id 
‘U,ebseura. X-filigera); were all that were seen or heard. ‘Head ise =: 
 baek to where we left the horses, we voth discover that we are “ 
literally orawling with small Meks, and that the horses: also. 
. are covered with them; Bill tells me that they are young cattle ee 
. and horse ‘ticks. Cross the ereek and head back to Gomp, leeds of 
: this. -boxmntany hes only pecentiy been bam off 3 the earlicr ¥ i ve 
‘aeat about « ‘ie os A dip in the creck. and a good Lather | uP with 
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: % Gormiciaal sony soon aot 3 eid of ‘the ) teks, a 
et me horses hed I | wandered emay off the paten 
% of feed and were pretty hollow wi Bill brought them ‘UP; ; they 
ie are all covered with the ‘emol1 eke give them all a e008 rub 
© - over v with a piece of b 
sick é and got rid of some of the pests, é 
eu ‘up and start oft out to have a ‘Look at the sountry up 
atom the # first ‘branch of the Coen; 60 out alone the ola fooky 
