But there are the whirring of locusts, the demoniac chuckle of the laughing jack-ass, the screeching of cockatoos and parrots, the hissing of the frilled lizard, and the buzzing of innumerable insects hidden under the dense undergrowth.

And then at night, the melancholy wailing of the curlews, the dismal howling of dingoes, the discordant croaking of tree-frogs, might well shake the nerves of the solitary watcher." That is the theater for the drama.

When you comprehend one or two other details, you will perceive how well suited for trouble it was, and how loudly it invited it.

The cattlemen's stations were scattered over that profound wilderness miles and miles apart--at each station half a dozen persons.

There was a plenty of cattle, the black natives were always ill-nourished and hungry.