Notes:
First published in two issues of The Australian Town and Country Journal (1870). The first part of this account, ending at '...it was a forlorn hope to get them up' was reprinted, with some revisions,as 'In the Droving Days', in In Bad Company (1901) (Rolf Boldrewood, edited by Alan Brissenden, UQP, 1979, p. 449)