I was born in Australia, at Broken Hill, and was an only child.
They are very tame and live in holes amongst the rocks or make burrows in the gully banks and Broken Hill sides.
The Broken Hill contract completed, he found new problems as a mining expert and manager of men in China.
Years ago the fabulously rich silver discovery at Broken Hill burst suddenly upon an unexpectant world.
The whole vast trade-profit of Broken Hill fell into Adelaide's hands, irrevocably.
The steep, rugged, Broken Hill was scaled at last, and from its summit the adventurers looked down on their place of refuge.
Every Broken Hill might conceal some secret valley where subterranean heat produced a growth foreign to the more open regions.
In addition Broken Hill is the centre of one of the largest pastoral districts in Australia.
To the north is another far-distant range; to the east, Broken Hill and stony plain, with a number of clay-pans.
If the Broken Hill suffered further catastrophe, which did not seem likely, its fragments would fall upon the floe.