. A record of the expedition to Eyre's Peninsula, October, 1909, with notes on ornithology, botany and entomology . ed miners pick into his belt, straps on a strong canvas bagto his shoulders, in which to carry back to camp fragments ofrock and stones which may be of special interest; and vrithhammer in hand he is soon at work among the relices of bygoneages. The tapping of his hammer grows fainter in the distanceas the prospector works his way over the range or up some rockyravine. So, radiating from the camp to all points of the compass,small parties of two and three go out, and the c
. A record of the expedition to Eyre's Peninsula, October, 1909, with notes on ornithology, botany and entomology . ed miners pick into his belt, straps on a strong canvas bagto his shoulders, in which to carry back to camp fragments ofrock and stones which may be of special interest; and vrithhammer in hand he is soon at work among the relices of bygoneages. The tapping of his hammer grows fainter in the distanceas the prospector works his way over the range or up some rockyravine. So, radiating from the camp to all points of the compass,small parties of two and three go out, and the camp would bedesserted but for the cook—an important individual in any camp;for, in spite of the .-idvance of science, the scientist requires histhree square meals a day as well as anyone else does, especiallyafter a 15 or 20 mile tramp. —Startled Birds and Animals.— The harsh cry of the parrots is heard among the brushwood;the birds have been disturbed, most likely by some one from theirmorning meal amid the beri-y-laden bushes or seedy grasses; or,it may be, the brush-tongued lorkeets have been frightened from. Xooii-dav haH in the scrub.
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