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"`Look here, Bogan," said Campbell, `I'll tell you what I'll do. If you give me your word that you'll come up to the police station to-morrow I'll go back and say nothing about it. You can say you didn't know a warrant was out after you. It will be all the better for you in the end. Better give me your word, man. "Perhaps Campbell knew Bogan better than any of us.
Lower down the Bogan we saw so little of the inhabitants that I cannot characterise the tribes, although there appear to be two more, the haunts of one being eastward of New Year's range, those of the other to the north of the Pink hills. Both these tribes appeared to be of rather an inoffensive and friendly disposition than otherwise, although quite ignorant of our language.
Two or three weeks after, Starlight and I were taking a ride towards the Bogan Road, not that we was on for anything particular, but just having a turn round for want of something else to do, when we saw a big mob of cattle coming along, with three or four stock-riders behind 'em. Then we met a loaded dray and team in front, that had rations and swags and a tent.
Also, he had been in a shearing-shed and in a shanty orgy with One-eyed Bogan, and knew the man. Now most of the chaps respected the Army, and, indeed, anything that looked like religion, but the Bogan's face, as representing free-thought, was a bit too sudden for them.
"I vote we kick the cow out of the town!" snarled One-eyed Bogan, viciously. "There's his wife and youngsters to consider, yer know." "He something well deserted his wife," snarled Began, "an' now he comes crawlin' back to her to keep him." "Well," said Mitchell, mildly, "but we ain't all got as much against him as you have, Began." "He made a crimson jail-bird of me!" snapped Bogan.
The driver asked us if we knew a good place to camp. He was a talking sort of chap, and we yarned away with him for a bit. He told us how the boss was behind in a dogcart and tandem, with two led horses besides. The cattle were going to take up a new run he'd bought on the Lower Bogan, an out-and-out wild place; but he'd got the country cheap, and thought it would pay in the end.
The hot wind of the Bogan met with no antidote as in Sydney, where the heat of a similar wind is usually moderated towards evening by a strong south-west breeze. On the Bogan the wind was oppressively hot during the night, and lulled only towards morning. August 27. Our cattle moved on in the morning, apparently much better for the rest and the grass on which they had fed here.
And they turned their eyes to the bar to refresh their memories with the sight of the disappointed face behind it. There was a rattling at the door-latch just then and loud voices outside, and as the old men looked, young Dan Bogan came stumbling into the shop.
The roads of the natives frequenting this part of the Bogan were well beaten, but none of the inhabitants made their appearance. May 19. We started at the usual hour, keeping first to the south of west, in order to clear the ground near the Bogan, and then on 300 degrees.
I gave to one man a piece of my sword blade, and to another a tomahawk, which he carefully wrapped in the paper in which I had kept it, and he seemed much pleased with his present. They pointed to the west as the general course of the river. The results of our journey thus far were, first, the survey of the Bogan, nearly from its sources to its junction with the Darling.
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