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According to their statements, the scrub extends to the Condamine. The scrub was crossed in every direction by tracks of wallabies, of which, however, we could not even get a sight. The glucking bird by which name, in consequence of its note, the bird may be distinguished was heard through the night.
The town was dripping at its eaves and glucking full of waters at rone-mouths and syvers when he got into it after his disgraceful retreat He was alone in the street as he walked through it, a wet woebegone figure with a jacket-collar high up to the ears to meet the nip of the elements.
During the night, we heard the well-known note of what we called the "Glucking bird," when we first met with it, in the Cypress pine country, at the early part of our expedition. Its re-appearance with the Cypress pine corroborated my supposition, that the bird lived on the seeds of that tree. Sept. 11.
Sonachan and the baron-bailie dipped their beaks in the jugs, and with lifted heads, as fowls slocken their thirst, they let the wine slip slowly down their throats, glucking in a gluttonous ecstasy. "God's grace for us all!" said the minister again, as in a benediction.
About a mile from the river, we passed a large swampy lagoon, round which the natives had burned the grass. We heard the call of the "Glucking bird" every night during the last fortnight, particularly from about 2 to 5 o'clock a.m. The longitude, according to my reckoning, was 136 degrees. Oct. 2.
Sitting on a sea-chest, Gilian felt the floor lift and fall below him, a steady motion wholly new, yet confirming every guess he had made in dreams of life upon the wave. A ceaseless sound of water came through the wood, of the tide glucking along the bows, surely to the mariner the sweetest of all sounds when he lies in benign weather moving home upon the sigh of God.
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