13.
1864
| Jany cont. | 30 | run, and saw tracks of Natives crossing theirs to & fro, as tho. driving them, followed them till late, but could not come on them. Joe & Schum at wall, self painting dingy. |
| 31 | (Sunday) Started as soon as we could get horses, with Schum & McC. after the mission ones; found them far off at 3 p.m. (Natives had not molested them), brought them near home. McC. shot a turkey. Abram do yesterday. |
| Feby | 1 | Joe laid up with sore eyes. McC. Schum at wall, self at dingy. |
| 2 | Joe & Schum at wall. McC. after horses, could not find them. Self at boat, & ill. Red heifer with calf broke her leg in bog. | |
| 3 | Making splints & attending to heifer, & odd work. Hands the same. McC. after saddle horses, not found. Weather so hot men cannot work after 10 a.m. | |
| 4 | The Bull Durham missing for some days; McC. & L. after him, found with a broken leg, not like to recover or fit for meat, sent him home & told Joe to get him slung, & do what he could for him. Started after horses as McC. could not find them. Schum & Joe clearing stone out of yard. | |
| 5 | Slept on horse run, searched all day, could not find horses as their tracks led us many miles from home, & then within 3ms. of house. Stallion came home. Hands as before & endeavoured to sling bull but did not succeed. | |
| 6 | McC. brought in horses, men making slings; slinging bull, quarrying stone in fold. | |
| 7 | (Sunday) | |
| 8 | McC. & self cutting posts for stockyards. Joe & Schum clearing stone in fold. | |
| 9 | McC. & self the same; Joe & Schum boring posts, Lewington after horses. Self cutting lambs. | |
| 10 | All at work at posts. Lewington after (Dolly) & Saucy & Fan; brought in an Emu. |
