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which would also carry him over the fords. My master let
me have tea and sugar, ship’s biscuits, tobacco, and salt
mutton, with two or three bottles of good brandy; for, as the
wool was now sent down, abundance of provisions would
come up with the empty drays.
Everything being now ready, all the hands on the station
turned out to see us off, and we started on our journey, not
very long after the summer solstice of 1870.
