. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. hear the crack of his whip. Driving into campis called tailing, or mustering, and we were bound on a mustering expe-dition to a camp five or six miles away. The object of the muster was MUSTERING CATTLE ON A CAMP. 373 to draft some bullocks to sell to a cattle-dealer who arrived at the sta-tion about the time we did. Two of the stockmeu had been s
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. hear the crack of his whip. Driving into campis called tailing, or mustering, and we were bound on a mustering expe-dition to a camp five or six miles away. The object of the muster was MUSTERING CATTLE ON A CAMP. 373 to draft some bullocks to sell to a cattle-dealer who arrived at the sta-tion about the time we did. Two of the stockmeu had been sent off very early in the morningto work the other side of the camp; we jogged on at an easy pacethrough alternating forest and open ground, where sometimes we couldnot see half a mile in any direction, and again coming out to ridgeswhere we had an extensive view. We had gone about three miles when. A FREE SELECTOR AT HOME. suddenly we came upon a mob of some fifty or sixty cattle that wento& in the right direction as soon as they lieard the cracking of theAvhips. Mr. Watson said they would go straight to the camp, and Fred 374 THE BOY TRAVELLEES IN AUSTRALASIA. and I might follow them, which we did. Sure enough, they took usright where we wished to go; and when we reached the camp we sawfully five hundred cattle gathered there in charge of the two stockmenfrom the other side.
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