Then you work out the total, and you say, 'There ought to be five thousand cattle on the place,' but you never get 'em.

I've got to go and find five thousand cattle in the worst bit of brigalow scrub in the north." "Where do you say this place is ?" said Pinnock.

"It's called No Man's Land, and it's away out back near where the buffalo-shooters are.

It'll take about a month to get there.

The old man's in a rare state of mind at being let in.