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7 [centred]

than one body. L^t [Lieutenant] Fulford
had started on the morning
of the 15^th, had run up the
Yulbar [Yuleba] Creek, and we met
upon the track on the
16^th. On the 16^th and 17^th
we followed the tracks
through very dense scrubs,
and broken country, and
on the afternoon of the
latter day, we separated
into two parties to search
a very scrubby and
broken hill. My party
followed the track of
"Dicky", the black
mentioned in Gillies'
deposition, and which
was not to be mistaken
from the great size of
his foot. We had scarcely
penetrated half a mile,
when I heard shots to my
right, and pushing
forward found a camp
just deserted by "Dicky"
and two gins. "Dicky's"
red

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"Dicky"