The quantity of water contained in a good root, would probably fill two-thirds of a pint.

I saw my own boys get one-third of a pint out in this way in about a quarter of an hour, and they were by no means adepts at the practice, having never been compelled to resort to it from necessity.
Natives who, from infancy, have been accustomed to travel through arid regions, can remain any length of time out in a country where there are no indications of water.

The circumstance of natives being seen, in travelling through an unknown district, is therefore no proof of the existence of water in their vicinity.

I have myself observed, that no part of the country is so utterly worthless, as not to have attractions sufficient occasionally to tempt the wandering savage into its recesses.
In the arid, barren, naked plains of the north, with not a shrub to shelter him from the heat, not a stick to burn for his fire (except what he carried with him), the native is found, and where, as far as I could ascertain, the whole country around appeared equally devoid of either animal or vegetable life.

In other cases, the very regions, which, in the eyes of the European, are most barren and worthless, are to the native the most valuable and productive.