It is ever so in the Australian bush.
I found that this party was by no means an isolated one, and I actually stayed in various camps for a few days, before returning to my mountain home.

I need hardly remark that the white men were far more astonished to see me than I was at meeting them.

Of course I could have joined them and gone back to civilisation, but this I would not do without my native wife and family.

It was in the Kimberley district that I met these parties of prospectors; and I may here remark that I had for some time been aware of the existence of this auriferous region.

I learned afterwards that the Kimberley was geographically the nearest point I might have made for in order to reach civilisation.
When I settled down again in my mountain home I soon fell into my old way of living, which was practically identical with that of the blacks, save that I did not always accompany them when they shifted camp.