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On Monday, August 19, I set out alone from Colinton on my long tramp across the Queensland bush. Two lines of a song that Bland had sung the night before ran in my mind: On the wild Barcoo, and the Flinders, too, A thousand miles away!
It was for the Barcoo I shaped my course. Three little girls saw me to the first slip rails, a mile distant. One took my tucker bag, another found amusement in carrying my billycan. Then came the last good-byes, and the girls, climbing on to the fence, watched me until I had disappeared from their view among the wooded hills.