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to the human voice. What it proceeded from we could not 
difcover ; but I am of opinion that it was made by a bird, 
or fome animal. The country round us was by no means fo 
good, or the grafs fo abundant, as that which we had paffed. 
The water, though neither clear, nor in any great quantity, 
was neither of a bad quality nor ill-tafted. 
The next day, after having fowed fome feeds, we purfued 
our route for three or four miles weft, where we met with 
a mean hut, belonging to fome of the natives, but could 
not perceive the fmalleft trace of their having been there 
lately. Clofe to this hut we faw a Kangaroo, which had 
come to drink at an adjacent pool of ftagnated water, but we 
Gould not get within (hot of it, A little farther on, we 
fell in with three huts, as deferted as the former, 
and a fwamp, not unlike the American rice grounds. 
Near this we faw a tree in flames, without the leaft 
appearance of any natives; from which we fufpeded that 
it had been fet on fire by lightning. This circumftance 
was firft fuggefted by Lieutenant Ball ; who had remarked, 
as well as myfelf, that every part of the country, though 
the moft inacceflible and rocky, appeared as if, at certain 
times of the year, it had been all on fire. Indeed in 
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