Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/78

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?OA? 01? AUI?A, ? crew were disptte, hed to examine ? plaoe farther lml. ?n, where, from the green appearnnce of the trees, it was thought not unlikely that thom ?i?a?lt be a fresh stream. I,n this they were ? disappointed, for after much delay and trouble, from the d?Rculty of passing over the rocks, they returned with two baricas full of fresh.water, which they found in holes of considerable sise. In pulling up the river, an alligator was ?awling slowly over the mud banks, but took to the water before we came near it, and ruts and sm? ? were seen s?ippin? about the roch, but they were yery shy, and fled the moment they s?w us, Hfmover B?y thus proyin? to n?brd ?ood anehor?e, and an opportunity of in?reasin? our mock of w,?ter, ms well as pl?senti? ,? nndy bem:h on ?hich we could hul the seine, it was determined that we should visit it as soon es the ? ooubt be moved out of ?rin? Re?enes ?ver. pumxi as we had passed in the mo?, we hnded near two or three ?dl?es on the inner duty o; Munster W?ter, but were umu?cessful ?n all our searches a?ter fresh-waMr.