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Lucas takes up four of them. It has one great chamber
known as the cathedral which is two hundred feet high
and a hundred and seventy feet in width. In the Lucas
are to be found Grandmother's Shawl, The Three Sisters,
Josephine's Mitre, The Bells, etc., etc.
Afterwards Hannibal, ably avoiding Mr. Colgate,
took a long walk down McCook's Creek through the Devil's
Coach House to the recreation field. It is a beautiful
walk through wild country and besides the animals I have
mentioned seeing before we saw a large mountain goat which
we scared up from his hiding place around a crag on the
mountain.
Monday, August 29th. (Jenolan Caves to Sydney).
Spent the day on the journey from the Blue Mountains
back to Sydney. We stopped at Jamieson Valley and Leura
Falls. But after reaching Katoomba, where we had lunch
again at the Carrington House, the trip was pretty much
the same as the one coming up to the caves. I returned
next to the gentleman from New Zealand with whom I had
shared the entire bus coming up from Sydney. This time,
however, it was a tighter squeeze, and we did not re-
main on such congenial terms. He kept moving his foot
and forcing my foot, or feet, all the way over against
my side of the bus and although I frowned on him fiercely
for several miles he maintained the state of tension
which he had established completely across the country.
We arrived in Sydney in the evening and re-
established ourselves in our old room, number 225, at