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While I was examining the cliffs near, to find a place where we could get the horses up, Tommy heard a cooey, and after answering it a good many times, we were surprised to see two natives walking up towards us, unarmed. I approached and met them; they did not appear at all frightened, and at once began to eat the damper I gave them. We could not understand anything they said.
"And hark 'ee, Cooey; it must be up in ten minutes, or no more jobs from me. Come along, Brown." And away swaggers the young potentate, with his hands in his pockets, and Tom at his side. "All right, sir," says Cooey, touching his hat, with a leer and a wink at his companions. "Hullo though," says East, pulling up, and taking another look at Tom; "this'll never do. Haven't you got a hat?
We gave a cooey to let those at the station know of our approach, and in another moment old Bob came hurrying out to meet us. "Thankful you've come, gentlemen," he exclaimed; "though Mr Bracewell's round the corner, he'll be glad of your society. He's in terribly low spirits at having only me to look after him. But, whom have you there? Picked up a couple of pirates on the road?"
Near the south-east point, I noticed large patches of the ferruginous sort of gravel, before alluded to in King's Sound. On one occasion a party thought they heard a cooey or cry peculiar to the natives of Port Jackson uttered by some of the aborigines in the distance.
Harry gave another loud cooey; again a distant answer was heard. "Why, that must be behind us," said Harry; "it comes from the edge of the scrub." They had by this time made their way into the interior. Bruce, on hearing the second cooey, pricked up his ears and bounded forward.
I began to feel rather uncomfortable, for although with my rifle in my hand, I was a match for two or three blacks, I should be in an awkward predicament should I be followed by a whole mob. It would not do to stop, so on I pushed. Again I cooeyed, and this time I heard my friends cooey in return. Still the distance was apparently considerable, and at any moment the blacks might overtake me.
I shouted the paean of victory, and was answered by a loud "cooey" from the valley and the voice of my friend Mr. B. calling out, "I have killed a splendid cow and dispersed the herd. The bull and several cows are gone down the valley towards the plains." All the party, with the exception of Tom N., were soon assembled round the body of B.'s cow, which was black and fine-limbed.
As we approached this spot, and while I was reconnoitring the bank for the purpose of marking out the camp, I came suddenly upon a party of natives, one of whom giving a short cooey first made me aware of the circumstance. Burnett went towards them with a branch; but they hastily gathered up their things and fled.
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