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Example sentences for "native well"

  • Shortly after emerging from the scrubs, we struck a small creek with one or two gumtrees on it; a native well was in the bed, and we managed to get water enough for the horses, we having only travelled six miles straight all day.

  • Hard by, however, I found a damp spot, and near it in the sand a native well, not more than two feet deep, and having water in it.

  • From this place they shifted north to a native well, Oaldabinna.

  • When camped at a native well, visited by Austin thirteen years before, he says that he could still distinctly see the tracks of that explorer's horses.

  • Giles pushed his way for 150 miles through scrub and past shallow lakelets of salt water until he came to a native well or dam, containing a small supply of water.

  • Their next camp of relief was at a native well 200 miles from Victoria Spring.

  • I named the Irwin after my friend Major Irwin, the Commandant at Swan River; following this for half a mile we found a native well, dug to a considerable depth in the bed, but all our scraping here was vain.

  • From this path we made frequent divergencies but found no water; in one instance we met with a native well of great depth, where a party of them had been drinking a few days before, but it was now quite dry.

  • At about four miles beyond this point Topar called out to us to stop near a native well he then shewed us, for which we might in vain have hunted.

  • In wandering about the gorge of the glen, Mr. Browne found a native well, but there was no water in it.

  • Happily, however, our dog discovered a deep hole under a drooping gum, which proved to be a native well, and after clearing and digging deeper, afforded our thirst relief.

  • The only fresh water found was at a native well, half a mile South-East from the eastern entrance point of the inlet.

  • Steering towards Mount Churchman, or Geelabbing, for about fifteen miles, we reached a grassy spot called Billeburring, and found water in a native well, probably permanent.

  • Steering in a northerly direction for sixteen miles, we reached Yalburnunging, a small grassy spot, with water in a native well, which we deepened four feet, and procured a plentiful supply.

  • Travelling about north for eleven miles we found a native well, and by digging it out seven feet we obtained sufficient water for ourselves and horses.

  • But our good fortune did not end here: continuing on westerly or a little north of it, we came on a summer encampment of the natives, and found a native well or spring, which I believe would give water if dug out.

  • On the first of May they came to a small gum creek, which Stuart called the Fisher, and in which the only water they could get was in a native well.

  • On the first of May, when camped at a native well, visited by Austin in 1854, Forrest says that he could still distinctly see the tracks of that explorer's horses.

  • At last, after being again seven days without water for the horses, they reached the end of the long line of cliffs, and amongst the sand dunes came again to a native well, and got their poor tortured horses a drink.

  • All that afternoon, whilst they rested thirstily by the dried-up native well, Tom relieved his anger by singing corroborree songs to himself in a low voice, but with flashing eyes and an excited manner.

  • Here they were able to drink--themselves and their thirsting animals for they found a native well which, when they had scraped out the accumulations of sand that had drifted into it, gave them a little supply of water.


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