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"'Awful dry Wet we're having, sez he," he murmured, "'the place is alive with dead cattle. 'Fact, sez he, 'cattle's dying this year that never died before." Then remarking that "this sort of thing" wasn't "exactly a thirst quencher," he followed up the creek bank into a forest of cabbage-tree palms tall, feathery-crested palms everywhere, taller even that the forest trees; but never a sign of water.
Upon entering Spring Creek, with my companion in tow, we were soon encompassed on all sides by the marshes; and as the boats slowly ascended the crooked stream, the fringes of the feathery-crested palms appeared close to the margins of the savanna.
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