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AND now for Torre commenced an extraordinary time of open-air wanderingfor such it was, although making steadily in the one direction. But the twistings and turnings were so numerous as to render their track almost a zigzag until they struck the Murray at a place called Mannum. These deviations were not so much a matter of necessity, but rather owing to Bralga's attention to commissariat supplies taking him off the track to stations and isolated settlers' houses. Torre had wished to pay for the food at these places, but his companion scouted the notion.
"There's two things only as ye can't ginerally git fer the askin'," said he, "an' them's baccy or a nobbler. Therefore, it's allers advisable to 'ave a few bob in resarve. Ye don't smoke, nor ye don't drink. But I does bothon a strick medium princible. I'm one o' the Co.