We always travelled all night, and used to outspan for five or six hours in the heat of the day to rest.

I planned that I would lie under a wagon and read for an hour or two every day before I went to sleep, and I did for the first two or three; but after that I only wanted to sleep, like the rest, and I packed my books away.
"When you have three wagons to look after all night, you are sometimes so tired you can hardly stand.

At first when I walked along driving my wagons in the night it was glorious; the stars had never looked so beautiful to me; and on the dark nights when we rode through the bush there were will-o'-the-wisps dancing on each side of the road.

I found out that even the damp and dark are beautiful.

But I soon changed, and saw nothing but the road and my oxen.