Peel's range being the nearest high land, I determined to search the base of it, in hopes of finding water, since it was impossible that either men or horses could long endure this almost constant privation of the first necessary of life.
It is however to be expected that as the country is certainly lower to the west and north-west than from south-east to south-west, there is a greater probability of finding water in this latter direction.
It is impossible to imagine a more desolate region; and the uncertainty we are in, whilst traversing it, of finding water, adds to the melancholy feelings which the silence and solitude of such wastes is calculated to inspire.
The whole of the country beyond was so level that the slightest appearance of a hollow was a most welcome sight as it relieved us from any despair of finding water.
I wished much to examine that singular mass, but we were proceeding with little prospect of finding water, and we had impassable scrubs before us, as well as rocky hills on our right.
The party had travelled sixteen miles, and the cattle could not be driven further with any better prospect of finding water.
With some difficulty we however got it on until we reached the river and, finding water, we halted for the day after a ride of twenty-one miles.
However that might have been, this man had a happy knack in finding water.
The party moved forward, at length, with the certainty offinding water for at least three days' journey, and of a hopeful water- course being before us.
We found water in one of the rocky ponds near our former encampment, but others in which some had formerly been found, were dry, and I was not without some doubt about finding water, on our way back to join Mr. Kennedy.
On my return I found that Forster had succeeded in finding waterby digging in the creek.
Ascended the range, and changed my bearing to Mount Morphett, 196 degrees, in the Crawford range, in the hope of finding water there.
A hole ten feet deep was sunk in the sand, but just as the increasing moisture gave them hope of finding water, the sides gave way, and Thring had a narrow escape of being buried alive.
In the hope of finding water, I continued my journey until the decline of day compelled me to encamp.
I continued my course to the northward, and, coming to a watercourse, followed it down in the hopes of finding water: it led us to the broad deep channel of a river, but now entirely dry.
Charley went back to bring forward our party, whilst I proceeded with Mr. Calvert to reconnoitre the plains under the peaks, feeling confident of finding water at their foot.
Dogs are particularly clever in finding water, and the fact of a dog looking refreshed, and it may be wet, has often and often drawn attention to a pond that would otherwise have been overlooked and passed by.
Whenever a traveller remarks these signs, he should observe the inclination of the strata, by which he would learn the position of m, where the probability of finding water is the greatest.
We followed down this river for about seven miles, in hopes of finding water, without success.
We have been most fortunate in finding water, and I am indeed very thankful for it.
At the distance we were from the hills, we had little hope of finding water; on approaching it, however, we alarmed some cockatoos and other birds, and observed the recent tracks of emus in the bed of the creek.
Flood had been about half a mile to the eastward, in the hope of finding water before we rose, but was disappointed; the horses did not, however, appear to have suffered from the want of it during the night.
At sunset I commenced my retreat, feeling satisfied that I had no hope of success in finding water so far from the hills.
Had we been unsuccessful in finding water in this region and then met these demons, it is more than probable we should never have escaped.
I was in hopes of finding water if we should debouch upon a plain, or perhaps discover some ranges or hills which the scrubs might have hidden from us.
The grass was burning on all the hillsides, and as I went still farther up, I could hear the voices of the natives, and I felt pretty sure of finding water.
It was timberless and whitish-looking, and I had no doubt of finding water at it.
Cable, Janet, and Pickering had pushed out also from Cutmore's Well, and by finding water on a granite between the two, had reached the rocks near Lake Darlot.
At the head of a gully running from this we were fortunate in finding water, sufficient to fill our casks, and give each camel a drink.
Finding that it would be many hours before the horses could be got on to the ranges, I started ahead on foot, leaving Brown and Harding to come on gently, while I was to make a signal by fires if successful in finding water.
After a short excursion to the distant ranges reported by Poole, Sturt, accompanied by Browne and two men, went ahead for the purpose of finding water of a sufficient permanency to remove the whole of the party to.
They had still a distance of eighty-six miles to cover to get back to Fort Grey, with but little prospect of finding water on the way.
There being no prospect of finding water, he was forced to turn back, fortunately finding small waterholes both on his outward and homeward way.
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