Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 145
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good season, & by smoke signals the Abos (aborigines) in the Bunya Mountains sent word for hundreds of miles all round that there was a big crop of Bunya nuts. It was mustering time at Miriam Vale & all the usual Abo (aboriginal) stockmen were away, so my father took Long Jimmy a boy of 18 with him. Jimmy had never been on a horse. They had a mob of about 50 head of cattle with some young calves among them (Staggering Bobs) & also old enough to be branded. When about a mile from Alexander Camp on what is now known as "The Estate". Jimmy who was a real mug? all Abos (aboriginals) who never learnt more English than 'gib it tchilling' (give it shilling) was told to take the mob to the camp, & Dad had a look round for more cattle. All hands except Jimmy met at the camp. It took about two hours to have lunch & cut out (camp draft) a big mob of cows, with calves at foot to be branded. When they got within a mile of