. The Australian wanderers, or The Adventures of Captian Spencer, his horse and dog . the old places by a straight direction. Forsome reason which we do not know they oftenseparate into distinct herds, and always remaindivided after that. But do not the nativesattack them? No, sir, they are too frightenedat them ; and I have seen a whole tribe clamberinto the ta-ees at their approach. Supper was eaten, and soon after midnight thecattle-seekers started, with the addition of and one of his men ; the former observedthat Captain Spencer ought to be warned of thedanger incurred in hunting
. The Australian wanderers, or The Adventures of Captian Spencer, his horse and dog . the old places by a straight direction. Forsome reason which we do not know they oftenseparate into distinct herds, and always remaindivided after that. But do not the nativesattack them? No, sir, they are too frightenedat them ; and I have seen a whole tribe clamberinto the ta-ees at their approach. Supper was eaten, and soon after midnight thecattle-seekers started, with the addition of and one of his men ; the former observedthat Captain Spencer ought to be warned of thedanger incurred in hunting bulls. They arevery dangerous, sir, he said ; and you must beable to turn your horse round as sharp as if hewere on a cabbage-leaf. They proceeded throughan open forest, at the termination of which thebrightiijess of the moon enabled them to see thetracks of the cattle. The black fellows told meI should find them by this path, said Graham; but let us see which way the wind is, because wemust go against that, or they will smell us out,they are so acute in this particular. They are. AUSTRALIAN WANDERERS. 441 somewhere up in these ridges, 1 am pretty will go and reconnoitre. Dismounting, andgiving his horse to his man to hold, the stock-keeper crept stealthily up the hills, and when hearrived near the summit, he went upon hands andknees and peeped over. Then returning, said: There they are, on the other side, as friendly aspossible with the wild ones; and there are two bigbulls among them which seem to be the leaders,the one black, and the other red. I, CaptainSpencer, and you, will take the red bull, saidGeorge Onslow, and Fred and the men shall havethe other; we will divide into two parties, singleout these two, and sacrifice them. That isright, sir; but you had better take a mouthfulbefore you begin, and let the horses also take aslight bait and rest, for we shall want all theirstrength and courage. This being done, the twodivisions took their way without speaking; thef
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