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"Curious thing that," he says meditatively; "it's an island, Pulo Jarrak, islands are all Pulo here, and owing to the quantity of rain which falls here the vegetation grows so thickly it makes the island stand right out; even on a dark night you can see it ten to twenty miles off. It looks quite black."
He began his career by riding jump-races in Melbourne, where a few Stewards want lynching, and was one of the jockeys who came through the awful butchery perhaps you will recollect it of the Maribyrnong Plate. The walls were colonial ramparts logs of jarrak spiked into masonry with wings as strong as Church buttresses. Once in his stride, a horse had to jump or fall. He couldn't run out.
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