Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 100
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We were so beef hungry, that we ate it half cooked.
We swam the Boyne twice. At BURRANDOWN a mob had left for NSW eight days before & they reckoned the drover would be at Dalby 80 miles on. Blocked again at STUARTS RIVER we got onto a nice dry sandy camp, & didn't the bullocks just have a play about, kicking up & pig jumping. We were afraid they would make it boggy.
Stuart River was all quick sand, & a good job we did not send cookie ahead, & the sand was quite firm after the bullocks had crossed.
JOHNDOWIE was a very small place, with a rack in front of the bar like one sees at small railway stations in TASMANIA, to remind them of the convict days! Swapped a very lame bullock for a big chestnut horse called Charlie. When we got to JIMBOUR, we could see a patch of trees ten miles on,