Mount Abundance

CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.

A Picturesque Station—Pastures New—The Early Days of Squatting—A
Roadless Journey—A Start—Two Months on the Road—The Beginning of
Troubles—Lost Working Bullocks—The Expedition Recruited—St. George's
Bridge—Pegging Away—The Party Divided—A Reconnaissance—The
Natives—The Cogoon River—Mount Abundance—Return to Camp—The Land of
Promise Reached at Last

CHAPTER II.

Forming a New Station—Preparations for Shearing—Ye Manneres and
Customes of Shearers—The Line to Brisbane—Return to Keera—Heat on the
Balonne—A Flood in the Low Districts—The Big River—A Risky Swim—A
Home-sick Horse—A Flood in the Higher Country—Short Supplies at the
Mount—How to Relieve It—Among the Sloughs Again—Punting Stores Across
a River in a Tub—Return to the Mount—Things Better than Might be
Expected—An Absence of Six Months

CHAPTER III.

Another Start for Mount Abundance—Black Charley—St. George's Bridge
Again—Terrible News—Two Men Killed—A Flock of Sheep Taken by
Blacks—Station Deserted—Party in Full Retreat—Wanted a Volunteer—Our
First Camp—Our First Conflict—The Deserted Station—The Re-occupation—Exploring
a Line of Road to Brisbane—Rough Surveying—Another Deserted
Station—Companions in Misfortune—The Return Journey—An Unlucky
Camp—Charging the Ring—Poor Charley

CHAPTER IV.

Return to Keera—Another Journey to the Mount—All Wrong—Return of Sheep
to Keera—Non-arrival of Cattle Party at the Mount—The Reason Why—Three
more Men Killed by the Blacks—Murder Camp—A Night Watch—A Solitary
Ride—Spoiling the Trail—A Lucky Awakening—Commissioner
Durbin—Obstinate Carriers—More Horrors—"Look under the
Wool"—Escorting the Wool Drays—The Moral of It All—Sic vos non
vobis