. Across Australia . 1 IL^f. j;^!. -^1 I >1. \ I \:\\ ( >1 \ M \ N I i| 1 III- r,\ \\j I I Ki i;i., -^ih iwi \i, I 111. Ml-, I ii< M)1 II \i I 1 \i. I m: I! \i K (|i. 40S1. 464 ACROSS AUSTRALIA chap. pots of tea, when two natives, clothed only in smiles,came out of the bush. One of them could speak a littlebroken English, and he told us that there was a betterwaterhole a little further on, so we saddled up again andwere soon in camp under a shady gum tree on a well-grassed flat by the side of a sheet of clear water fleckedwith little yellow lilies. The name of the place wasKarrabobba,
. Across Australia . 1 IL^f. j;^!. -^1 I >1. \ I \:\\ ( >1 \ M \ N I i| 1 III- r,\ \\j I I Ki i;i., -^ih iwi \i, I 111. Ml-, I ii< M)1 II \i I 1 \i. I m: I! \i K (|i. 40S1. 464 ACROSS AUSTRALIA chap. pots of tea, when two natives, clothed only in smiles,came out of the bush. One of them could speak a littlebroken English, and he told us that there was a betterwaterhole a little further on, so we saddled up again andwere soon in camp under a shady gum tree on a well-grassed flat by the side of a sheet of clear water fleckedwith little yellow lilies. The name of the place wasKarrabobba, which, when pronounced as the natives pro-nounce it, is so closely similar to the rather mournful noteof the peaceful dove—one of the sounds most fre-quently heard in the bush—as to suggest that this is itsorigin. The scrub round the waterhole was thick, and we foundthat a considerable number of members of the Gnanjitribe were camped close by, though we should have hadno idea of their presence unless they had ma
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