48 NOTES OF A JOURNEY ON THE DARLING, 
ence a herd of wild pigs that were wallowing in the shallow wai 
The channel of the Narran River, which has a fringe of low gun 
on each side near the lake, has been taken possession of for ab 
miles upwards as a breeding place for the cormorants, and at the 
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such numbers that the water was almost black with them in p 
is is not by any means easant part of the lak 
fragments of fish that are lying under the trees, and which po w 
the air for a considerable distance round, while flocks of 
horse and approaching the trees on which the nests were built 
young birds would immediately throw themselves on to the gr 
different people that there does not seem to be any reason to dou 
