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 uight without water — Return to the camp — The party proceeds down the 

 Darling — Surprise a party of natives — New acacia — Mr. Hume's treefound 

 — Fall in the Darling — Surprised by a party of natives — Emu killed by the 

 dogs — Duulop's range — ileet the Puppy tribe — Ascend Dunlop's range 

 — High land discovered to the westward — Grass pulled and piled in ricks 

 by the natives — Hills beyond the Darling — Convenient refraction — 

 Native huts — Interview with the Red tribe — The Puppy tribe — How to 

 avoid the sandy hills and soft plains — MaccuUoch's range — Visit a hill 

 beyond the Darling — View from its summit. . . 217 



CHAPTER VI. 



Natives of the Spitting tribe — Singular behaviour on the discharge of a 

 ])istol — Conjectures — Second interview with the Spitting tribe — Strange 

 ceremonial— Amusing attempts to steal, or diamond cut diamond — Dry 

 channel of a stream — Tombs on the sand hills — White balls on tombs — 

 Australian shamrock — Old canoe — Dry state of the country — Danger 

 and difficulty of watching the cattle on the river banks — Uniform cha- 

 racter of the Darling— The Grenadier bird — The " Doctor" and the na- 

 tives — A range discovered by refraction — Dance of natives — A lake — 

 Tombs of a tribe — Plan of natives' hut — Method of making cordage — 

 The tall native's first visit — Channel of a small stream — The carts beset 

 on the journey by very covetous natives — Mischievous signals — Cattle 

 worn out — The tall man again — Approach of the Fishing tribe — Covet- 

 ous old man — Conduct on witnessing the cfiect of a shot— Tlie party 

 obliged to halt from the weak state of the cattle — The natives very 

 troublesome — Singular ceremonies — Ichthyophagi — Their manner of 

 fishing — The burning brand — A tribe from the south-east — The old 

 man appears again with a tribe from the sotith-west — Small streams 

 from the west — Tlie Darling turns southward — Resolve to return — De- 

 scription of the country on the banks of the river — The men at the 

 river obliged to fire upon the natives — Steady conduct of the party — 

 Origin of the dispute — Narrow escape of Muirhead — Treacherous con- 

 duct of the aborigines — Melancholy reflections . . 245 



CHAPTER VII. 



Commencement of the homeward journey— The cattle begin to fail — Halt 

 and endeavour to lighten the carts — Rain comes on — Native conversa- 

 tions at a distance — Party separated to watch the cattle — Illness of 

 some of the men from scurvy — Mr. Larincr's excursion into tlic country 

 to the eastward- -Tlie Spitting tribe again — Return of Mr. Larmer, who 

 had found water and iniiabitiints — A day's halt — Ride to Greenough's 



