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1864
| Septbr | 29 | Started dingy down, waited until first load arrived, & returned home. |
| 30 | Repaired dray, & sent Lewington down for stores, & Albert after horses, & cattle. | |
| Oct | 1 | Albert after cattle not seen yesterday (found them). Team came up with new hands & stores from Mystery. |
| 2 | (Sunday). | |
| 3 | McC. & self making new body, pole etc, to dray. Tucker & Lewington cutting battens a.m.; p.m. raising stone, Albert at odd jobs, & Harry (Native) with ewes & lambs. | |
| 4 | McC. & self the same, Albert after horses & cattle & two hands raising stone. | |
| 5 | Finished dray, two hands raising stone. | |
| 6 | Two hands carting, two raising stone, & weigh-up stores for sheep station, self looking out site for camp & down to Withnells (for books) & home. | |
| 7 | Bullocks could not be found till late, when I started with three hands to make hut & yard for sheep, the shepherd & Native having started very early. | |
| 8 | I brought up all the horses as I required two to go on a short trip with W. to examine the country between this & the Forescue, we made a start at about 1 p.m. & slept 15ms south up the river, 3 men at work at sheep station, 2 at home. | |
| 9 | (Sunday) | |
| 10 | Albert looked up cattle, McC. at small shed. & L. the same. | |
| 11 | 2 hands at shed, & 2 at sheep station. | |
| 12 | I came in from Maitland river, about 27 miles, having seen very little good feed, & that only round Table Hill 15ms. S. on the E. bank of the Maitland where there is some extent Albert looking up cattle, Tucker & McC. at shed. |
