The wallabies had trimmed them pretty well, but we knew what they were.

Been a corn-patch too--the marks where it had been hoed up were there, same as they used to do in old times when there were more hoes than ploughs and more convicts than horses and working bullocks in the country.
'Well, this is a rum start,' says Jim, as we sat down on a log outside that looked as if it had been used for a seat before.

'Who the deuce ever built this gunyah and lived in it by himself for years and years?
You can see it was no two or three months' time he done here.

There's the spring coming out of the rock he dipped his water from.

The track's reg'lar worn smooth over the stones leading to it.