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sank deep into the ground, and in straining to get them clear we broke seven yokes. Two flights of swans, and a small flight of ducks, passed over our heads at dusk, coming from the W.N.W. The brushes were full of the Calodera, but being very wild we could not procure a specimen.
The chainers had no difficulty in keeping pace with us, and on the 26th we found ourselves in lat. 29 degrees 6 minutes, having then chained 61 miles on a bearing of 55 degrees to the west of north, as originally determined upon. Finding that I had thus passed to the south-west of the grassy plain, I halted, and rode with Flood to the eastward; when at seven miles we descended into it, and finding that there was an abundance of water in [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] the creek (the channel we had before noticed), I returned to Mr. Browne; but as it was late in the afternoon when we regained the tents, we did not move that evening, and the succeeding day being Sunday we also remained stationary. We had halted close to [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] one of those clear patches on which the rain [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] water lodges, but it had dried up, and there was only a little for our use in a small gutter not far distant. Whilst we were here encamped a little jerboa was chased by the dogs into a hole close to the drays; which, with four others, we succeeded in capturing, by digging for them. This beautiful little animal burrows in the ground like a mouse, but their habitations have several passages, leading straight, like the radii of a circle, to a common centre, to which a shaft is sunk from above, [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] so that there is a complete circulation of air along the whole. We fed our little captives on oats, on which they thrived, and became exceedingly [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] tame. They generally huddled together in [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] a corner of their box, but, when darting from one side to the other, they hopped on their hind legs, which, [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. Зарегистрироваться...] like the kangaroo, were much longer than the fore, and held the tail perfectly straight and horizontal. At this date they were a novelty to us, but we subsequently saw great numbers of them, and ascertained that the natives frequen