Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/152

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co?s ov &b'?. 131 ing Jack, who wes privileged to come end go u ?m. he liked, whic? si? it did not app?r ?o?eat? I?. any jealousy ?mng his compsakm, enabled us ham'? safety, who was busily engMp? in add'roW to his collections from the. country in the vicinity of the vessel,. In the.evening, Jack e!!?hed the ti? u high as ? topmast.head, mu?h ? ? muse- ms?t. of. his ?omps. uicm, but to the m?ific?ti?m d ?und?, who had.n?v? ?m coum? ?o The .water-hol?s yielded ?bout a ton of water a day; but a stresm .was found in ths study b?y to the eaetwv?l of the entrain2, over ths beach, which ws used whsn ths hol?s w?'e emptied of ti?ir contra3; the latter wets, boweve?, lrr?rred, since our,p?pl? worksd. ? vmsel's deck? Near the stream we found some Our wateriag continued to proceed without mo- Iraslim fi?m t!2 natives; the number of whom !?d i?r?sed to twenty-nine, besides sonm whom we had before seen that wers now abseut. D?,- in? the afternoon of the ?th the wind �reshened ?t thb place the Slit Antol?5 merchant brig wooded and