In the waterholes on the southern side of Barkly's Tableland, which he followed down for seventy miles, he found plenty of fish, and his impression was that these fish came up from rivers farther to the south-west.
Jackey, who had gone to waterholes surrounded by springs and clumps of tea-trees for the purpose of shooting ducks.
This evening the blacks returned and reported that the waterholes they had gone to see were empty.
He is going tomorrow on foot to see if there is water in the waterholes on the road to Barcoo River.
It had extensive flood-marks and heaps of mussel-shells on its banks, but the waterholes in its channels were empty.
Almost immediately after descending we overtook the rest of the party, halting near waterholes in which there were ducks.
Crossing a second spur of the tableland, descended to a small creek with waterholes and narrow grassy flats, the general character of the country being very poor and scrubby.
Halted at thewaterholes about four miles to the west of the pass through the Hamersley Range.
Near one of the waterholes in the creek we surprised a native, who was sitting at his fire with a couple of women, who decamped with all possible despatch.
Resting for several hours at thewaterholes of the 22nd, at 4.
Moved the camp to the waterholes found last night, one and a half miles down the gully.
Not wishing to alarm them, we passed the waterholes from which they were supplied, and proceeded a mile farther, but had in consequence to camp without water, although amongst abundance of grass.
Instead of hoofs--in this part of the country at any rate--cattle ought to have feet like a bandicoot, then the poor beasts could worry along by digging waterholes in the river bed.
At length, after much hope deferred, and finding a few scanty waterholes that did not serve his purpose, he succeeded in striking the head of a chain of ponds running to the north.
There being no prospect of finding water, he was forced to turn back, fortunately finding small waterholes both on his outward and homeward way.
Even the waterholes were nearly all dried up, and in the bottom of these the natives had scooped their little wells.
The Rocky Waterholes were deep pools situated in the centre of a cluster of wildly confused and lofty granite boulders and pillars, covered with vines and creepers and broken up by narrow gullies.
He had decided upon a pardonable fiction--he would tell them that he had been thrown from his horse, and received a rather bad cut; of his bullet wound and the tragedy at the Rocky Waterholes he made no allusion.
It will mean us making a half circle of sixteen miles, but we will get to Rocky Waterholes a long way ahead of him.
The river at the camp was about 700 yards wide, with fine waterholes in it, containing plenty of fish.
The natives had poisoned all the fish in the different waterholes with the bark of a small green acacia that grew along the banks, but the party succeeded in getting a few muscles and maramies.
A chain of small waterholes occurs at 12 miles, which were covered with ducks and other water-fowl, whilst immense flocks of a slate-colored pigeon were seen at intervals.
The rain as it falls upon these stone-clad hills runs off at once into the small creeks, thence into larger ones on the flat land, then into the main creek after filling the waterholes in their respective courses.
We passed across the stony point which abuts on one of the largest waterholes in the creek, and camped at 12.
On our continuing along it a little further it began to improve and widened out with fine waterholes of considerable depth.
At twelve or thirteen miles we crossed the creek where it has cut for itself a deep narrow channel, the banks of which are densely timbered and well grassed, but the waterholes are small, and contained very little water.
A few days after Mr. Wills left, some natives came down the creek to fish at some waterholes near our camp.
It has a broad sandy channel; the waterholes are large, but not deep; the banks are bordered with fine white gums, and are in some places very scrubby.
There are some fine waterholes in the first creek (Teltawongee), but I cannot say for certain that the water is permanent.
There were several fine waterholes within about four miles of the camp I had left, but not a drop all the way beyond that, a distance of seven miles.
We found the two gunyahs situated on a sand-bank between two waterholes and about a mile from the flat where they procured nardoo seed, on which they managed to exist so long.
From Camp 60 the general course of the creek is north-west, but it frequently disappears on the earthy plains for several miles, and then forms into waterholes again finer than before.
The waterholes are not large, but deep, and well shaded, both by the steep banks and the numerous box trees surrounding them.
We then came to a clump of trees, amongst which were two large waterholes surrounded by polygonum bushes, and containing great numbers of small fish.
Some of the few waterholes that had to be reached lay far across the border in Mexican territory.
These bands were more numerous than the waterholes of northern Sonora; they never camped long at one place; like Arabs, they roamed over the desert all the way from Nogales to Casita.
Brought to this country from the Mediterranean area for use as a windbreak, salt cedar escaped cultivation and spread like wildfire across the Southwest, invading river bottoms, drainage ways, and waterholes in unbelievable numbers.
We then encamped near some waterholes which I found on our right, in the surface of a clay soil and close to a plain extending southward.
As we continued our journey downwards the waterholes in the chain of ponds became small and scarce, while we found the cattle-tracks more and more numerous.
He told us the name of the waterholes between that place and the Murrumbidgee, but he could not be prevailed on to be our guide.
During that trying season, none of the rivers ran in their channels, and even most of the large waterholes in the bed of the Flinders dried up, while stages of thirty or forty miles without water were frequent.
The year 1865 was a very dry one on the Thomson, the Barcoo, and the Flinders--waterholes went dry that year that have never gone dry in the thirty-five years that have followed.
Day after day we travelled through desolation--grass withered to chips, creeks and waterholes all but empty, cattle staggering like drunken men, only it was for WANT of drink.
There were no reeds about the waterholes of the Bogan; and we had in fact this day left that river, and reached the sources of the Lachlan, to which stream the Goobang must sometimes be an important tributary.
Their caution in approaching waterholes was most remarkable; for they always cooeyed from a great distance, and even on coming near a thick scrub they would sometimes request me to halt until they could examine it.
We came upon a bend of the river with good waterholes at 11 3/4 miles, and encamped as usual on the clearest ground near it.
This unfortunate affair arose solely from our too suddenly approaching the waterholes where the tribes usually resort.
After the funeral, McCarthy rode over to the Rocky Waterholes to make some enquiries.
About two miles from the Waterholes Philip overtook another swagman, a man of middle age, who was going to Nyalong to look for work.
The trees on the sandy ground were broad-leafed Melaleucas, Grevilleas, and nondas, and by the waterholes which we occasionally saw, were Stravadiums and drooping Melaleucas.
There were plenty of waterholesin the valley, between the river and the higher sandy ground.
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