murrynebone

Updated: May 24, 2025

'This ought to be Murrynebone Creek, says Starlight, 'by the look of it, when we came to a goodish broad bit of water. 'The crossing place is boggy, so they told me at the hotel. We may as well pull up for a spell. We're in Queensland now, that's one comfort. It took us all we knew to get over; it was a regular quicksand.

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields

Then both of them lying dead at the flat by Murrynebone Creek Starlight with the half-caste making his wild moan over him; Jim, quiet in death as in life, lying in the grass, looking as if he had slid off his horse in that hot weather to take a banje; and now, no get away, the rope the hangman!

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields