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undergrowth is very close and thick and tangled, so that yeu must
fight your way ahead, axe in hand, we call it ‘scrub.’ When there
is not much undergrowth and the trees are sort of open, and a
man on horseback can get comfortably through the woods, then we

 

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call it the ‘bush. You have been riding in the bush already a
long time.”

As Mr. Bright said, they had for a long time been riding in the
bush. They had been journeying among trees, trees, trees. Austra-
tian scenery is peculiar. The woodland is generally more like a
park of trees than a dense forest. The traveller does not often