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appearance in the morning
sunlight, with its perpendicular
escarpment towering high aloft.
We seemed to be travelling
under its very shadow, and
then up a rocky gorge, where
for a few minutes we had to
lead our horses along a narrow
gravelly ledge, with rocks below
and rocks above, and then a
few paces over a stony saddle
and we found ourselves on
the water shed of the King River.
This was about 1 PM but it
was 4 PM before we reached
the river and camped. I
fired 3 shots at kangaroos but
missed them. Hugh mixed up
the last of the flour into a dam-
per last night, which was con-
siderably distrained on for break-
fast this morning, and fur-