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Five men, two bullock drays, five hundred cattle, a thousand sheep-- day after day, week after week they pushed out. At first the sun set in their faces. They crossed mountains where there were trees taller than ships' masts and so wide in girth that if a tunnel were driven into them a bullock dray might pass through with room and to spare for a horseman.
Once or twice they met a man with a drayload of wool, creeping through the ranges towards the sea. He pulled up, mopped his brow.