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Explorations in Australia

CHAPTER 5
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Reached the water by midnight, and the horses finished it all, and were not half satisfied.

I thought there was more, or would not have come back for it.

We hobbled them out, and had a few hours' rest.
A PAINFUL MARCH.
19th.
Early this morning we searched the flat for water, and found a rock water-hole with about fifty gallons in it, but could not find any more clay-pans.

We therefore gave the horses the fifty gallons, and pushed on towards "Water near Table-Land" shown on Mr.Gosse's map, about twenty-one miles distant.

The day was excessively hot again, and walking was most fatiguing.


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