Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important, and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c., &c. London, T. and W. Boone, 1841, Volume 2Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 - Australia |
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Page 67
... pools ( some of them being twelve or fourteen feet deep ) , we could not find the slightest indication of water having stood in them for a considerable time : in the bottom of one of the deepest of these pools was a native well , dug to ...
... pools ( some of them being twelve or fourteen feet deep ) , we could not find the slightest indication of water having stood in them for a considerable time : in the bottom of one of the deepest of these pools was a native well , dug to ...
Page 81
... pool . I felt , however , that great calls upon my energies might still arise , and there- fore , retiring a little apart with the native , I first of all returned hearty thanks to my Maker for the dangers and sufferings he had thus ...
... pool . I felt , however , that great calls upon my energies might still arise , and there- fore , retiring a little apart with the native , I first of all returned hearty thanks to my Maker for the dangers and sufferings he had thus ...
Page 106
... pools , and our horses revelled in luxuriant pasturage . Between the two rivers there is a great extent of level country , so much under water in wet weather as to be then totally impassa- ble with horses or carts , and the beds of the ...
... pools , and our horses revelled in luxuriant pasturage . Between the two rivers there is a great extent of level country , so much under water in wet weather as to be then totally impassa- ble with horses or carts , and the beds of the ...
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