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KANGAROOS. 
great quantities in that particular place, could only 
be a matter of conjecture. There was no change 
whatever in the character or appearance of the 
country, or of the cliffs, and the latter were as steep 
and impracticable as ever. 
Five miles beyond the flint district we turned a 
little inland and halted for the night upon a patch 
of withered grass. During the day we had been 
fortunate enough to find a puddle of water in a 
hollow of the rock left by yesterday’s rain, at which 
we watered the horses, and then lading out the re- 
mainder into our bucket carefully covered it up 
with a stone slab until our return, as I w r ell knew, 
if exposed to the sun and wind, there would not be 
a drop left in a very few hours. Kangaroos had 
been seen in great numbers during the day, but we 
had not been able to get a shot at one. Our pro- 
visions were now nearly exhausted, and for some 
days we had been upon very reduced allowances, so 
that it was not without some degree of chagrin that 
we saw so many fine animals bounding unscathed 
around us. 
January 11. — Having travelled fifteen miles fur- 
ther along the cliffs, I found them still continue un- 
changed, with the same level uninteresting country 
behind. I had now accomplished all that I expected 
to do on this excursion, by ascertaining the character 
of the country around the Great Bight ; and as our 
horses were too weak to attempt to push beyond the 
cliffs to the next water, and as we ourselves were 
