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Updated: June 14, 2025


We had lost considerable time by our hunting, though we had obtained a good dinner, and of course had been delayed also by one of the party having to proceed on foot. While we were seated round our camp-fire Bracewell said "I scarcely like to make the proposal I am about to do, and yet perhaps you will not object.

I now saw the animal rushing on, with head down, about to run at him. Fortunately a tree was near at hand, round which he managed to guide his horse, when the bull for a moment losing sight of him he was able to take a steady aim: he fired and the monster rolled over. "Nervous work!" exclaimed Bracewell.

"You may do our friend Bracewell a great deal of good," I observed, "for you at all events know more about doctoring than any of us. You can discover what is the matter with him."

We had got about half way, when we saw a white man running towards us. He appeared to be in a desperate hurry, and as he approached made signs entreating us to stop. "What's the matter, my man?" inquired Bracewell as he came up. "I am a shepherd on Mr Robinson's out-station," he answered.

We both fancied that we should be absent little more than five months, and that we should come back with our purses well filled, or, at all events, with the means of filling them. Mrs Bracewell and Mary were very unhappy when Harry placed the state of the case before them; but they acknowledged that he ought to act as the firm wished.

I willingly acted according to his suggestion; and, leaving him with his two younger brothers and Toby, Bracewell, Guy, and I galloped forward. Bracewell appeared more agitated than I had ever seen him before. He had been paying great attention to Mary Strong, and the thought now occurred to him that she was in danger.

"I am afraid you will be in some danger from them on your return," I observed to Bracewell. "No fear of that," he answered. "They will be too busy in gorging themselves with the flesh of the kangaroos; besides they will not be on the look-out for me, and a well-mounted man, provided he doesn't come unexpectedly on a mob, need have no fear of them.

I had shown no predilection for a seat in the counting-house; and consequently, when his old shipmate Captain Bracewell, who had just been appointed to the command of the Heroine sloop-of-war, offered to take one of his sons as a midshipman, he allowed me, greatly to my delight, to enter the navy.

All I know is, that he did not make any progress in the affections of Miss Lucy, for a very good reason, which he was not long in suspecting that she had already given her heart to some one else. That some one was my friend Harry Bracewell Captain Trunnion had, however, gone away without suspecting who was his rival.

Bracewell at length awoke and confirmed what Toby had said, that the savages were indulging in one of their native dances. "I should like to go and see it," I exclaimed; "can we do so without risk of being discovered?" Taking Toby to guide us, while Bracewell remained in camp, we set out.

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