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1864
| Feby. | 11 | S. & J. at posts; laying out yards, & fetching wood & water. McC. brought in the two mares. |
| 12 | Men as above; McC. & self felling rails. | |
| 13 | The same. | |
| 14 | (Sunday) | |
| 15 | Men finishing posts. McC. ill, self carting timber for yard. | |
| 16 | McC. very ill, self after horses, as L. said they had all left upper run. Joe clearing stone off of cart road. Schum making tool handles. | |
| 17 | McC. went up the river & found all the horses (L. having been mistaken in the tracks) & Fan with a fine horse foal about 5 days old. Joe ill. Schum & self working about place, & carting timber for stockyard. Laing & Green had a row & Laing punched his head, which he (Green) very much required. | |
| 18 | Schum & self carting timber. Joe clearing roads. McC. better, but weak. All the horses seen. | |
| 19 | Jinnette left the run. McC. after her. Schum doing odd work (with bad legs). Joe at roads, self timming rails. | |
| 20 | Went with McC. down to Port, found the flat all right. Deposited letter in bottle at "Dig Rock". | |
| 21 | (Sunday) Burned the spinifex near former site of house, & more on plains; found Jinnette & returned. | |
| 22 | Cutting rails & searching all over the country for more but could not find any. Joe & Schum digging post holes (ground very hard) Killed a sheep 47lbs. | |
| 23 | Carting rails & trimming them; men as above. | |
| 24 | Carting rails. Lewington came to me & told me a native (named Mullandee) had made a most murderous attack on him with a stone axe; on the bank of the river while minding his cattle & fishing. I came home with the |
