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Pagina 28
Even in fair seasons it is a country of light - carrying capacity ; on an average it will carry about sixty sheep or six head of cattle to the mile ; and conse- quently the areas worked are very large ; a thousand square miles is a ...
Even in fair seasons it is a country of light - carrying capacity ; on an average it will carry about sixty sheep or six head of cattle to the mile ; and conse- quently the areas worked are very large ; a thousand square miles is a ...
Pagina 29
The paddocks are about six miles square , and in a far corner I find a hundred sheep or so . Poor beasts , the combined effects of thirst and heat have made them absolutely stupid , as they do all animals , —aye , and men too .
The paddocks are about six miles square , and in a far corner I find a hundred sheep or so . Poor beasts , the combined effects of thirst and heat have made them absolutely stupid , as they do all animals , —aye , and men too .
Pagina 30
To the north lies the cattle - country , -light gray , almost white in parts , washed by miles of water in flood- time , the inland sea of early explorers . For thirty miles it is like this , a dull white plain , broken here and there ...
To the north lies the cattle - country , -light gray , almost white in parts , washed by miles of water in flood- time , the inland sea of early explorers . For thirty miles it is like this , a dull white plain , broken here and there ...
Pagina 31
... we drove among the cattle , carrying also on our sad- dles small canvas water - bags , holding two pints or so . Flog , flog , hour after hour , we thought ourselves lucky when we could get a mile an hour out of the poor brutes .
... we drove among the cattle , carrying also on our sad- dles small canvas water - bags , holding two pints or so . Flog , flog , hour after hour , we thought ourselves lucky when we could get a mile an hour out of the poor brutes .
Pagina 32
Early in the summer one of the stock- men was riding to the head - station ; about fifteen miles out he came across a ... marked plainly enough on the map- a broad line of scarlet ink signifying a road a mile wide over which stock could ...
Early in the summer one of the stock- men was riding to the head - station ; about fifteen miles out he came across a ... marked plainly enough on the map- a broad line of scarlet ink signifying a road a mile wide over which stock could ...
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