I thought we had quieted them, but they have been up to their old games lately, spearing cattle, and so on.

I don't like, in fact, to go too far down there alone.

I don't think they are Macquarrie blacks; I fancy they must have come up from the Darling, through the marshes." We thought we should have no reason to be afraid with such a strong party as ours; and Owen, our host, having some spare cattle, we were employed for the next three days in getting them in.

We got nearly a hundred head from him.
The first morning we got there the Doctor had vanished; but the third evening, as we were sitting down to supper, in he came, dead beat, with a great bag full of stones.

When we had drawn round the fire, I said: "Have you got any new fossils for us to see ?" "Not one," said he; "only some minerals." "Do not you think, sir," said Owen, our host, "that there are some ores of metals round this country?
The reason I ask you is, we so often pick up curiouscoloured stones, like those we get from the miners at home, in Wales, where I come from." "I think you will find some rich mines near here soon.