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Leave the Staaten Half the horses away Fresh troubles Mule Lost Sambo knocked up Search for mule Perplexity "Lucifer" goes mad Final attempt to recover him Marine Plains Search for Deceiver Found dead Salt Lagoon Arbor Creek Country improves Good Camp Eulah Creek The Brothers attacked Reach the Mitchell Cow poisoned Battle of the Mitchell An ambush Extent of flooded Country Reach head of tide Heavy rain A "Blank run" Leave the Mitchell Good Coast Country Balourgah Creek Blue grass Banksia The Eugenia Green Ant Hearsey Creek Holroyd Creek Dunsmuir Creek Thalia Creek Black boy chased by natives Another encounter Cattle scattered by thunder-storm Rainy Season Macleod Creek Kendall Creek.
This morning the Brothers, taking old Eulah with them, swam across the creek, alligators notwithstanding, and walked to the top of a high stringy-bark ridge on the south side. Before him, at about 3 miles distant lay the mouth of the river, about 2 miles wide.
Leaving instructions with the cattle party to follow down Cockburn Creek, and halt at the spots marked for them, the Brothers, accompanied by Eulah, started ahead, to mark the camps and examine the country. By this means no time was lost.
The cattle remained here to-day, whilst Scrutton and Eulah were sent back for the lost cattle. The Brothers went forward a day's stage to try and find some high ground. In this they did not succeed. The country was all alike, and they were satisfied beyond doubt that it must be one sea during the rains; not a very comforting discovery.
Binney, and two black boys, he started on the 3rd of September, taking with him the most trusty of his black boys, "old Eulah," and one pack-horse, and accompanied by Mr. Bode, who took advantage of the opportunity to have a look at the country. As Mr. Bode had his own black boy with him, the party comprised four, with two pack-horses, carrying provision for three weeks. About the same time Mr.
Jardine's Marked-tree Line Meeting with their Father A Heroine. 'January' 30. This morning, Mr. F. Jardine with his Brother and the Blackboy, Eulah, started to find the Settlement, leaving the rest of the party encamped with the cattle, in charge of Mr. Scrutton.
Again taking old Eulah with them, the brothers started on another quest for the Lynd, which, like the mirage of the desert, seemed to recede from them as they approached; setting out late in the day, they camped at night once more on the lagoon, at the end of their marked-tree line, a distance of about 18 miles.
On the 30th January, the brothers, with their most-trusted black boy, "Eulah," started to find the settlement, taking with them a small quantity of rations. For a time they were hemmed-in in a bend of what they took to be the Escape River, but on leaving it suddenly came on a large river running to the west coast, which is now known as the Jardine.
Few starts of a large party occur without similar mischances, but a day or two, suffices for the horses to settle to their work, after which all goes smoothly. The country travelled has been described in the preceding chapter. A hill at five miles on Pluto Creek, received the name of Mount Eulah. On reaching the swamp, the brothers found the cattle party had not arrived.
'October' 11. At sunrise the cattle was started with Cowderoy and two black-boys, Eulah and Barney, the former acting as pilot. Their instructions were to camp at the swamp at the junction of Pluto Creek, seventeen miles from McDonald's station, mentioned on 3rd. September.
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