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I rode on till high noon, till having crossed the valley of the Belloury, and followed up one of its tributary creeks, I had come on to the water system of another main river, and the rapid widening of the gully whose course I was pursuing assured me that I could not be far from the main stream itself.
We are in Australia, three hundred and fifty miles south of Sydney, on the great watershed which divides the Belloury from the Maryburnong. As the sun was going down, James Stockbridge and I, Geoffry Hamlyn, reined up our horses and gazed down the long gully at our feet.
Three hundred and fifty miles south of Sydney, on the great watershed which divides the Belloury from the Maryburnong, since better known as the Snowy-river of Gipps-land. As the sun was going down on the scene I have been describing, James Stockbridge and I, Geoffry Hamlyn, reined up our horses on the ridge above-mentioned, and gazed down the long gully which lay stretched at our feet.
I like feeding a real hungry man; it's almost as good as eating oneself sometimes better. When the edge of his appetite was taken off he began to talk; he said first "Got a station anywheres about here, sir?" "No, I'm Hamlyn of the Durnongs, away by Maneroo." "Oh! ay; I know you, sir; which way have you come this morning?" "Southward; I crossed the Belloury about seven o'clock." "That, indeed!
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