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--- 195001 [2016/04/28 14:47] – [Newnes Glen Davis Mt Uraterer to Capertee Mt. and Glen Alice] kennettj
+++ 195001 [2016/05/04 13:14] – [Bivouac] kennettj
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 ====== Bivouac ======
-Here for a span of three short days was home, those few square yards of canvas, and some cord ta-t-)ned by casual sticks and metal pins, the ,11,-th itself our an2bor0 Here we lived, tra-.)-ped the bush tracks, prepared prodigious meals, pursued our pleasant necessary tasks, ate, drank, were merry; and when evening came stretched limbs well-ipefiried to the friendly fire, and warmed our hearts in kindly comradeship.
+Here for a span of three short days was home, those few square yards of canvas, and some cord ta-t-)ned by casual sticks and metal pins, the ,11,-th itself our an2bor0 Here we lived, tramped the bush tracks, prepared prodigious meals, pursued our pleasant necessary tasks, ate, drank, were merry; and when evening came stretched limbs well-ipefiried to the friendly fire, and warmed our hearts in kindly comradeship.
 Now, we doprt; and on the springing turf scarce lingers yet the ty.,print of our bed. Only a wisp of fern, so7o_e blackened stones remain, rute witness to our sojourn here, and in the sunlit silence blue wren flits, prospecting with his little broll-nie wife for 'coorsels hidden from the human glance.
-There have been conquerors who swept the earth, and men acclaimed them t but the er'bittered soil brought forth no harvest where their feet had passed, and the torn hills might wait two decades long before the deep woods clothed their flanks again.
+There have been conquerors who swept the earth, and men acclaimed them but the embittered soil brought forth no harvest where their feet had passed, and the torn hills might wait two decades long before the deep woods clothed their flanks again.
-Paltry ambition this, and negative, but fame enough when we pack up at last our bivouac of threescore -years and ten, sufficient if we leave no hurt to mar
+Paltry ambition this, and negative, but fame enough when we pack up at last our bivouac of threescore -years and ten, sufficient if we leave no hurt to mar earth's face or man's, but only, where we lived may there be sunlight, and such sense of peace that wanderers who come upon the place, pause and say: "Someone was happy here."
-earthls face Or man's; but only, where we lived may there be sunlight, and such sense of peace that ihanderers who come upon the place -,Tint pause, and say: "Someone was happy here."
 ====== Newnes Glen Davis Mt Uraterer to Capertee Mt. and Glen Alice ======
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 over maps and then take a chance on a certain area n:f6 kr,c-wn cffrLe. ,
 walkers. The fossicking round for information so-f-cimes '.;()
-quito surprising disooveries, and sometimes 2a to a dead cnd.
+quite surprising discoveries, and sometimes 2a to a dead end.
 We could get very little "gen" about Bajiol,a, S-oiranco,
-so decided to take a risk and go and see for 31,1.1.:1-J.As LLiuri e pointed out before wa went, the nividing Range
+so decided to take a risk and go and see for 31,1.1.:1-J.As LLiuri e pointed out before we went, the nividing Range
 and Glen Innes could not be so spectacillar, a oi each sLde cf country about.30000 feet, thus leaving only a Y.:C.5e of th:,.,12and feet to the tops of 5,000 feet.
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 That night we camped cn Deeowate- flivc..
 a few miles along the unin1;erestin road we cEi e 1,)!,ry into Deepwater, which was in the midst of barren fiat oeunbry. With hours to wait for the bus to Glen innes, 26 miles away, we decided to go by private car, and it was only a few miles along the road before Laurie boarded a modern sedan, while Clem and I had to be content with the back of a utility. However this lift gave us nice time to look around Glen Innes in brilliant sunshine, and see the autumn tints of the many exotic trees.
-The end of the trip had turned but very easy. We had found what we were looking for and added another area of New South Wales to our knowledge, even though it was relatiriely unspectacular.
+The end of the trip had turned but very easy. We had found what we were looking for and added another area of New South Wales to our knowledge, even though it was relatively unspectacular.
 ====== Ode to the Commisioner of Railways ======