Only the tallest trees stood with their higher boughs glowing with the gold of the departing day, and we stood undetermined which route to pursue, and half inclined to camp at the next waterhole we should see.
The cross fell from the hands of spent zealots at some waterhole where water was not, and other hands followed to snatch up the sacred emblem and push it deeper into Papagueria.
Bob, was noticed to be suffering from illness, having bled them, we proceeded down the creek in search of water at which the party could halt, and found a small waterhole at 2.
Landed the sheep and drove such as could walk to the waterhole at our camping place, one mile north of the Dome, and left a party in charge, consisting of Dr.
Continued a south-east course through large open plains thinly grassed; passed a dry watercourse with a small waterhole in one of the back channels, but insufficient for our horses, and at noon camped at a shallow waterhole in a grassy flat.
The channel was soon lost on the wide grassy flats, in one of which was a fine waterhole covered with nymphae, near which a party of blacks were encamped.
Finding the country very dry and rocky, and no prospect of finding a spot where the tableland could be ascended, we returned to the waterhole at which we camped last night.
The waterhole at this camp is a very fine one, being several miles long, and on an average about--chains broad.
In one of the valleys between the sand hills, at a distance of about ten miles in a south-westerly direction, we found a shallowwaterhole where a creek is formed for a short distance, and is then lost again on the earthy plain beyond.
Several gunyahs of the blacks were situated near a waterhole that had apparently contained water very lately, and heaps of grass were lying about the plains, from which they had beaten the seeds.
As we proceeded up in a northerly direction, we found the waterhole to diminish in size very much, and at about two and a half miles the creek ran out in a lot of small watercourses.
At the point of the Wonominta Creek where we camped there is a continuous waterhole of more than a mile long, which, they say, is never dry.
We reached it at a distance of four or five miles farther, and found a splendid waterhole at which we camped.
We camped at a waterhole in McDonagh's Creek; the spot is indicated by a gum tree marked B over LIV within square.
From the waterhole we quite unexpectedly obtained a rather fine fish, about eight inches long, of the same description as the young ones we had found in Brahe's Creek.
As it was now nearly time to camp, we travelled it up for about one and a-half mile, and came to a fine waterhole in a rocky basin, at which there were lots of birds.
Mr. Burke and King out for nardoo; self weaker than ever; scarcely able to go to the waterhole for water.
Seeing little chance of water ahead, we turned back to the end of the long waterhole and camped for the night.
They left the waterhole to face the steep, thickly timbered slope of the hill.
She set her horse at a canter without waiting for him to reply, and rode steadily on, he after her, till Price's Waterhole was reached.
Number 16 Camp to a waterhole where Fisherman and Jemmy were filling the water-bottles to carry on the packhorse, so as to supply us whilst in search of more water.
On the following morning we went ashore and got water in a waterhole near the bank, and also firewood off an old fallen tree, which, I think, is probably the real ebony.
At the waterhole I found blacks, but, as I always avoid them when I can, after I had a short interview with them we started down the river to the water Jemmy had found, following along the right bank as we had the left before; at 4.
In a waterholenear camp Mr. Bourne and I while bathing found mussels in abundance; but as our caterers, of whom Mr. Bourne was the chief, had shot two turkeys we did not gather any mussels.
In a waterhole near camp Mr. Bourne caught a great quantity of small fish, an agreeable addition to our fare, and from the same waterhole Fisherman got a quantity of mussels for our breakfast tomorrow.
On going on shore on the western bank of the Albert River I found within a hundred yards of it a waterhole at which it would be more convenient to water stock than the river, as the banks of it are at this place too steep.
Mr. Frost found a finewaterhole within five miles of here, to which we have driven the horses, as it was on the route which we had previously determined upon as the best to take if practicable.
I washed on the edge of the river near a deep waterhole in some clay and pebbles in search of gold but did not find any.
When we had ridden about twenty and a half miles we camped on the western side of a shallow waterhole in an eastern channel of the river.
There was a lot of sagebrush around the waterhole and jackrabbits began to hop up here and there.
We all spread out and took a swath about the width of a city block and circled the waterhole one time--and killed more jackrabbits than we could carry home.
One waterhole in summer, and in winter a whole chain of them, but the creek seldom if ever flowed, except in a very wet season.
Down in the creek there was a waterhole, a waterhole surrounded by tall reeds and other aquatic vegetation which gave it a look of permanence, of freshness and greenness in this burnt-up land.
Further on, the spirits come to Boigu, where they swim in the waterhole and often appear to people in their real shape.
Having in vain looked for a waterhole we hastened towards another line of trees which we reached by sunset.
Our female guide maintained that there was a waterhole some miles onward at Pomabil; and we accordingly proceeded in that direction, regaining first the firm plains outside the trees growing on the river margin.
Neil, who stocked the country on the Alexandra, a tributary of the Leichhardt River, where there was a large waterhole ten or twelve miles long.
The Mud Hut on the Thomson had to be abandoned owing to the scarcity of grass and the waterhole drying up before the end of the year.
The season was so uncommonly dry, that permanent water was the chief attraction, and the splendid waterhole at Iffley, more than two miles long, and very deep, decided the Earles to fix themselves there with their cattle and drays.
She came round the waterhole with a clothes prop, and made good time, too; but we got across and away with our clothes.
When the warm weather came, Joe and I got into trouble with an old hag for bathing in a waterhole in the creek in front of her shanty, and she impounded portions of our wardrobe.
Later on a syndicate was formed to explore the country and recover the boat; but they found her thirty miles from the river and about eighteen from the nearest waterhole deep enough to float her, so they left her there.
When the old people had been patrolling the bough shed as the clouds rose overhead, Wirreenun had gone to the waterhole and taken out the willgoo willgoo and the stones, for he saw by the cloud that their work was done.
They all followed him down to the creek, to the waterhole where he had placed the willgoo willgoo and gubberah.
You were going to muster the 'Lost Waterhole Camp' soon, weren't you?
If ye had some of those roan steers we used to get at the Lost Waterhole Camp, sure they wouldn't be able to see out of their eyes with fat.
A deserted gunya was found near a lonely, half-dry waterhole in the scrub, and there were rumours of a tribe of wild blacks having passed towards the outlying country in the Breeza Downs direction.
They were short of water at the head-station, and we had to fetch it in from a waterhole several miles off that we fenced round and used for drinking--so long as it lasted.
At 5 miles they crossed another main branch about 450 yards wide, and camped two miles on the other side of it, on a waterhole in a Leichhardt-tree flat ('Nauclea Leichhardtii.
These, as before described, were very thickly strewn making the journey tedious and severe on the horses, so that only 14 miles were accomplished, when they camped on a large waterhole five miles above the junction.
I turned more northerly for a waterhole in the Alberga, called Appatinna, but we found it quite dry.
Distance travelled on last course six and a half miles, total distance eight and a half miles to Careri Creek, which seems to flow from the west of north, or nearly north and south; but name of waterhole is Wantula Depot.
Another large waterhole in this course at about a mile on bearing of 355 degrees; the creek then appears to bear off to the eastward.
I camped after a journey of fifteen and a half miles on same side of creek, close to a deep waterhole in the creek.
Oh, Bettles and Lon McFane had an argument, and they'll be down by the waterhole in a few minutes to settle it.
Turning to the left, Philip found two men near a waterhole hard at work puddling.
And I know a fellow who thought he was in the heart of Africa watching the savage beasts come down to a waterhole to drink, and then getting up in the morning to discover the whole shooting-match had taken up quarters in his back yard.
No sign of the expected lake appeared during the afternoon, and in the evening they camped in a little valley between two kopjes, beside a waterhole that welled out and sank again almost immediately into the thirsty earth.
On the day they reached the waterhole a rhino charged down on the caravan and narrowly missed goring Bakari, but Schoverling managed to drop him in the nick of time.
He had heard them twice, that first night in the thicket by the waterhole and again tonight.
Empty except for the fire and the waterhole and the little micelike animals running in the thicket.
Whenever there came a short drought the waterhole was sure to run dry; then it was take turns to carry water from the springs--about two miles.
What had once been a waterhole was a red and yellow heap of shale, fragments of stones, gravel, and sand.
They did the same for Martin Cole's waterhole at Rocky Point.
He loves a horse, and any man who loves a horse couldn't fill a waterhole in this desert.
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