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sidering that if they had wounded any one of us the most 
melancholy and fatal results would have ensued. 
We did not see anything' more of the blacks during the 
rest of the day, but the repeated indications of hostility 
we perceived as we approached the Darling, made me ap- 
prehensive as to the reception we should meet from its 
numerous population; and I was sorry to observe that the 
men anticipated danger in passing that promising junction. 
Having left the sea breezes behind us, the weather had 
become oppressive ; and as the current was stronger, and 
rapids more numerous, our labour was proportionably 
increased. We perspired to an astonishing degree, and 
gave up our oars after our turn at them, with shirts and 
clothes as wet as if we had been in the water. Indeed 
Mulholland and Hopkinson, who worked hard, poured 
a considerable quantity of perspiration from their shoes 
after their task. The evil of this was that we were 
always chilled after rowing, and, of course, suffered more 
than we should otherwise have done. 
On the 25th we passed the last of the cliffs composing 
the great fossil bed through which the Murray flows, 
and entered that low country already described as being 
immediately above it. On a more attentive examination 
of the distant interior, my opinion as to its flooded 
origin was confirmed, more especially in reference to the 
country to the S. E. On the 30th we passed the mouth of 
the Lindesay, and from the summit of the sand hills to the 
north of the Murray overlooked the flat country, through 
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