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natives — just at the moment when another day would have rewarded them 

 with the sight of Mount Hopeless on the horizon. 



When they regained the creek their provisions were gone. The blacks 



Monument to Burke and Wills in Melbourne. 



showed the hapless men how to gather the little black seeds of a grass 

 called the nardoo, on which they mostly lived themselves. The white men 

 hoped that it would support them, but could only starve upon it. An effort 



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