A dream-drive indeed, full of sort of 'Alice in Wonderland' episodes.

Bush life Out Back--a jumble of odd characters and situations.

Fencers' camps, cattle-drivers' camps, bullock-dray camps.

There had been a baby born unexpectedly under the tilt of a bullock-dray, on one occasion, the night before McKeith's party appeared on the scene, and Lady Bridget had a trunk down from the buggy, and there in the road tore up some of her fine-laced smocks and petticoats to provide swaddling clothes for the poor little scrap of mortality.

And there were tramps 'humping bluey' on the track likewise, and diggers carrying their picks.