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VISITED BY A NATIVE FAMILY. 
without food also, and had suffered so much that 
with abundance of water near ns, and whilst they 
were suffering agonies from the want of it, we dared 
not give it to them freely. Having tied them up 
to some low bushes, we gave each in turn about 
four gallons, and then driving them away for half a 
mile to where there was a little withered grass, we 
watched them until the evening, and again gave 
each about four gallons more of water. 
Whilst thus engaged, a very fine looking native 
with his wife and family, passed us and halted for a 
few moments to observe us, and procure a drink 
from the well we had made. This man did not 
seem at all alarmed, and made signs that he was 
going to sleep, a little further along the coast, where 
there was also water, pointing to the white sand- 
hills about five miles from us. The language he 
spoke seemed to be the same as that of the other 
natives we had met with along the Great Bight, nor 
did the King George’s Sound native understand him 
a bit better than he had done the others. 
At night one of our two remaining sheep was 
killed, and the overseer and myself proceeded to 
watch the horses for the night. The poor creatures 
were scarcely able to crawl, yet were restless and 
uneasy, and fed but little, they had tasted water and 
they were almost mad for it, so that it was a severe 
task to both myself and the overseer to keep them 
from returning to the well. The single sheep now 
left had also given us a good deal of trouble, it was 
