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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd desolation, where it seemed as if mountains had been crum-bled up and scattered about in hills and lumps. The dryearth cracked and yawned in all directions. Failing to findwater, we camped down, parched, weary, silent, but not de-spairing. The next morning the horses were gone. I cannot find words to describe what we suffered in the subse-quent twelve hours. I had walked until my feet were one massof blisters, and was ready to lie down and die ten times in theday ; but somehow I found strength to walk, always chewing abullet. At length, at nightfall, we found our horses; and,nearly at the same time, to crown our delight—water. At thosight of this, we both involuntarily sank down on our knees toreturn thanks for life saved. The next morning, after a scanty breakfast, we set to work,and by dint of cutting away with axe and jack-knife, at the ex-pense of clothes and skin, through a brigalow scrub for half amile, found our way into a gap through which our track lay. ::C-^^V ^::m^<
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AN EXPLORING ADVENTURE. 399 and which we had missed. It led straight to the dividing range. After crossing five miles from the foot of the range, througha barren tract, our eyes and hearts were suddenly rejoiced by thisight of the wished-for land. A plain, covered with fine-green barley-grass, as high as ourhorses heads, and sprinkled over with the myal shrub, whichcattle and sheep will cat and thrive on, even without grass. Suchwas the delicious prospect before us. A flood had evidently butlately subsided, for lagoons full of water were scattered all about;a river running at the rate of five miles an hour, serpentined asfar as the eye could see, from which the waterfowl fluttered upas we passed; the eagle hawks were sweeping along after theflocks of quail, and mobs of kangaroos hopping about like hugerabbits. There was not a sign of horn or hoof any where, but itwas evident that the aborigines were numerous, for there werepaths worn down where they had been in the habit of travelling

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