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Requiescant in pace! resurgant in pacem! For I wish them better than they wished themselves. After Milmeridien came a thick scrub, through which Kalingalunga tracked his way; and then a loud hurrah burst from all, for they were free the net was broken. There were the mountains before them and the gaunt wood behind them at last.
Extreme illness of one of the party. New Year's range. A thunderstorm. Three natives remind us of the man wounded. Another man of the party taken ill. Acacia pendula. Beauty of the scenery. Mr. Larmer traces Duck Creek up to the Macquarie. A hot wind. Talambe of the Bogan Tribe. Tombs of Milmeridien. Another bullock fails. Natives troublesome. Successful chase of four kangaroos.
The chief heard this query, and looking back said gravely, "He take them to 'Milmeridien';" and the party followed Jacky, who twisted and zigzagged about the bush till, at last, he brought them to a fairy spot, whose existence in that rugged wood none of them had dreamed possible.
Several natives came up with Talambe in the morning, and they accompanied us on our route. As we passed a burial-ground called by them Milmeridien I rode to examine it and, on reaching the spot, these natives became silent and held down their heads.
They waited, getting crosser and crosser, till nine o'clock, and then out comes my lord from the wood, walking toward them with his head down on his bosom, the picture of woe the milmeridien movement over again. "There! don't let us scold him," said George, "I am sure he has lost a relation, or maybe a dear friend; anyway I hope it is not his sweetheart poor Jacky. Well, Jacky!
Hasty and imperfect as my sketch of this Jacky is, give it a place in your notebook of sketches, for in a few years the Australian savage will breathe only in these pages, and the Saxon plow will erase his very grave, his milmeridien.
"Wambiloa wood smell a good way off when him burn." "And how do you know it is a white man?" "Black fellow never burn wambiloa wood; not good to burn that. Keep it for milmeridien." The chief now cut off a few of his long hairs and held them up to ascertain the exact direction of the wind.
Kalingalunga paused at the brink and said to his companions in a low, awestruck voice, "Milmeridien."
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