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| 'As we preceded on our journey we had as yet encountered neither an emu nor a kangaroo, but we had encountered another kind of biped more formidable than either. This was a couple of grim, large under-jawed, ferocious-looking villains, the expression of whose countenances was enough to have condemned them in any court to which they might be taken merely on suspicion. They were standing against a gum-tree with their double-barrelled rifles, with which, no doubt, they intended, the first opportunity, to make a hole in the living clay of some successful digger who might be returning to deposit his findings in Melbourne.' |
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