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SINK ANOTHER WELL. 
the sand-drifts there and search for grass. Behind 
the drifts I found some open sandy plains, with a 
coarse kind of dry grass upon them, and as they 
were not far from where the natives had dug wells 
for water, I thought the place might suit us to en- 
camp at fora time when we left our present position. 
In returning to the camp, through the scrub behind 
the coast, I shot a fine wallabie, and saw several 
others ; but having only cartridges with me, I did 
not like to cut up the balls for ammunition. 
April 2. — Another severe cold frosty night made 
us fully sensible that the winter was rapidly closing 
in upon us, notwithstanding the ill-provided and 
unprotected state we were in to encounter its in- 
clemencies. Our well had again tumbled in, and 
gave us a good deal of trouble, besides, each suc- 
cessive clearing out deepened it considerably, and 
this took us to a level where the brackish water 
mixed with the fresh ; from this cause the water was 
now too brackish to be palatable, and we sunk 
another well apart from that used for the horses, at 
which to procure any water we required for 
our own use. During the afternoon I shot a wal- 
labie behind the camp, but the place being 
densely scrubby, and the animal not quite dead, I did 
not get it. 
On the 3rd, I sent the overseer out in one direction 
and I went myself out in another, to examine the 
country and try to procure wallabies for food. We both 
returned late, greatly fatigued with walking through 
