Been a track here some time.

Let's get round and see.' When we got round the rock the track was plain again; it had been well worn once, though neither foot nor hoof much had been along it for many a year.

It takes a good while to wear out a track in a dry country.
The gully widened out bit by bit, till at last we came to a little round green flat, right under the rock walls which rose up a couple of thousand feet above it on two sides.

On the flat was an old hut--very old it seemed to be, but not in bad trim for all that.

The roof was of shingles, split, thick, and wedge shaped; the walls of heavy ironbark slabs, and there was a stone chimney.
Outside had been a garden; a few rose trees were standing yet, ragged and stunted.