But I've done better than that--got on the lead--dead on the gutter.

To my belief, that gully is the top dressing of a dried up underground watercourse.

It's a pocket chock full of gold.
You see, it's like this: Here followed technical details given in local gold-digger's phraseology which would only be intelligible to a backwoods prospector or a Leichardt's Land mining expert.

McKeith read all the details carefully, turning the page over and back again in order to read it once more.

There was no doubt--making due allowance for Moongarr Bill's exaggerative optimism--that the find was a genuine one.
The writer resumed: 'I've pegged off a twenty men's ground, this--being outside the area of a proclaimed goldfield--our reward as joint discoverers.