LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Map]
[A Night Camp in the Never-Never]
[The Homestead]
[“So Long, Chaps!” (The Fizzer Leaving The Katherine)]
[One Of The Bullock Waggons]
[The Line Party Camps]
[William Neaves, Born At Woolongong]
[White-Ant Hills]
[The Quiet Stockman Handling A Kicker]
To The Public
It is with the full consent of the bush-folk that this one year of their lives—the year of 1902—is given to the world.
“Tell ’em anything you like,” they said, one and all, unconsciously testifying to their single-heartedness. And in the telling I have striven to give that year as I found it.
At every turn the bush-folk have helped me; verifying statements and furnishing details required with minute exactness; while I am indebted to Mr. W. Holtze, Mr. G. G. Jaensch, “Mine Host,” and the Quiet Stockman for the photographic plates with which this book is illustrated.
Jeannie Gunn.
Hawthorn,
October 1907.
Prelude
We—are just some of the bush-folk of the Never-Never.