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HUT ON THE DARLING RIVER

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Title: Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: De Satgé, Oscar, b. 1836
Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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^ we refused to take up and stock,oddly enough was destined to form a considerableportion of the famous Dunlop Station, which cappedthe fortunes of that great shepherd king, Mr. SamMcCaughey, and enabled him to pay the vendora huge yearly sum as the proceeds of the settlementfor this thriving property. So much for the ups anddowns of the squatters life. Had we accepted Lloydsoffer and stocked Toorale, who knows what hardwork and good fortune might not have done for us ?Amongst other benefits Toorale brought with ithereafter, was a certainty of obtaining great artesian 126
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A TRIP TO THE BARLING. supplies at a low depth, so that the country backfrom the Darling could be watered by artesian wellsto the full extent of its grazing capacity. Our journey back was a good deal delayedby rains that brought down creeks and riversBankers, and, what with continual swims andshort supplies, we became thin by degrees, andbeautifully less. Our black boys, who smelthome, behaved splendidly in all these crossingsand recrossings of flooded rivers, and on oneoccasion, that will long live in my memory. FlashBilly certainly earned our gratitude by literallysaviuGf the party from a watery grave by his fineblack fellows instinct. We had camped for the night below the big damat Bungle Gully, a station owned by a familyof the name of Evans, and turned in ; the rain thatwas falling increased to a deluge, flooding our tent,the boys started talking rapidly to each other, andsoon after Flash Billy brought the horses to us andwoke us up, urging us to shift the camp at once, andget ou

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