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"Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The
by Louis Becke
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Title: "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: February 18, 2008 [EBook #24642]
Language: English
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"FIVE-HEAD" CREEK; and FISH DRUGGING IN THE PACIFIC
By Louis Becke
T. Fisher Unwin, 1901
"FIVE-HEAD" CREEK
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I had ridden all day through an endless vista ot ghostly grey gums and ironbarks, when I came in sight of the long wavering line of vivid green foliage which showed me that I had reached my destination--a roughly-built slab hut with a roof of corrugated iron. This place was to be my home for six months, and stood on the bank of Five-Head Creek, twenty-five miles from the rising city of Townsville in North Queensland.
Riding up to the building, I got off my wearied, sweating horse, and, removing the saddle and my blanket and other impediments, led him to the creek to drink, and then hobbled and turned him loose to feed on the soft lush grass and reeds growing along the margin of the water. Then I entered the empty house, made a brie