Six days on the mountains of Cowley

Six days on the mountains of Cowley / by John Gale

Creator: Gale, John, 1831-1929

Call Number: N 919.447 G151

Created/Published: [Queanbeyan [N.S.W.]? : J. Gale?, between 1901 and 1920]

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SIX DAYS ON THE MOUNTAINS OF COWLEY.	1
SIX DAYS ON THE MOUNTAINS OF COWLEY	3
SIX DAYS ON THE MOUNTAINS OF COWLEY. The Start.	5
Prayers at the Station.	9
Start for the Mountains.	10
Pastoral Bush Labours.	11
Up The Mountains.	14
Pioneer’s Marked Tree.	16
Brindabella.	17
Life at Brindabella	20
Cold-Field, a Remarkable Stone Wall	22
Last Stage Upwards.	24
Peppercorn Hill	26
Source of the Murrumbidgee.	26
Climate.	29
Adventures in the Snow.	30
Vegetation.	34
Vegetation.	37
Wild Horses.	40
Bees	45
Snakes	45
Caves of Coolamon Plains.	48
Starting for the Caves.	49
Shut out from the World	52
First Cave.	53
Haunted Cave.	53
Veritable Spectre	56
Solution	58
Interior of the Caves.	65
Second Cave.	67
Breaking up of the Party.	68
An Awful Chasm	69
Rock Resembling a Fortification	70
Remarkable Landslip.	71
Starting for the Waterfalls.	72
Mob of Wild Cattle	76
Out of Our Latitude;	79
Preparing to Camp.	81
Prospector’s Shaft.	82
Strange Sounds—Wombats.	83
Short Allowance.	86
Constructing a "Humpy.”	87
Miserable Quarters.	87
Labouring Under Difficulties.	89
Old Blacks'Camp	89
Waterfalls.	92
Greatest Waterfalls of the World	97
Abortive Contrivances.	98
Strange Discovery.	100
Bushrangers' Fort.	102
Another of the Bushrangers' Camps.	105
Groves of Ferns	106
Beautiful Lyre-Bird	107
An Aboriginal Feast.	109
Appeasing the Cravings of Hunger.	112
“In a Christian Land I”	112

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