. Across Australia . l.];l.\li i\ [ I- , il; \ I U> li i|il \ ^1 \l:^ I M II HI K INT. NIK IKl; i i 11; M A Ml-: Ii\\l,( III! Willi I III: \ \M |i If I \l, I II Mill I I I l;ll;l. I|) 451 I. XX TENNANT CREEK TO POWELL CREEK 453 the north bringing a welcome but somewhat belatedbudget of letters. Some of them had first of all beensent round via Adelaide up to Oodnadatta, but as theycould not be sent up after us across the continent intime to catch us before we left Alice Springs—north ofwhich there is no mail communication—they had travelledback again to Adelaide and then north via Melbou
. Across Australia . l.];l.\li i\ [ I- , il; \ I U> li i|il \ ^1 \l:^ I M II HI K INT. NIK IKl; i i 11; M A Ml-: Ii\\l,( III! Willi I III: \ \M |i If I \l, I II Mill I I I l;ll;l. I|) 451 I. XX TENNANT CREEK TO POWELL CREEK 453 the north bringing a welcome but somewhat belatedbudget of letters. Some of them had first of all beensent round via Adelaide up to Oodnadatta, but as theycould not be sent up after us across the continent intime to catch us before we left Alice Springs—north ofwhich there is no mail communication—they had travelledback again to Adelaide and then north via Melbourne,Sydney, Brisbane, Thursday Island and Port Darwin,and then south via Pine Creek, on the chance of meetingus somewhere along the telegraph line. The whereaboutsof travellers journeying along the latter are of coursewell known to the officers in charge at the differentstations, and letters are forwarded as occasion offers bystray travellers, for of course in this part of the worldevery one helps every one else
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