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After a journey of some thirteen hundred miles which took some seven months' traveling, we at last reached our destination and made our camp on the left bank of Mary Lake, called the station "Rocklands" and the present homestead is on the same spot, and the property bearing still the good, hard old name.
After the fright the blacks got on the night of our arrival to rob them of their country, we thought the poor wretches would give us a very wide berth, and not likely to molest us for many a long day. In this we found ourselves very much mistaken, Landsborough found them anything but friendly when passing through and deemed it dangerous to camp near the waterholes. I never saw any body of natives in any part of Australia to surpass physically the Rockland blacks and few indeed to equal them.