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Valley of the Murray Its character and capabilities Laborious progress up the river Accident to the boat Perilous collision with the natives Turbid current of the Rufus Passage of the Rapids Assisted by the natives Dangerous intercourse with them Re-enter the Morumbidgee Verdant condition of its banks Nocturnal encounter with the natives Interesting manifestation of feeling in one family Reach the spot where the party had embarked on the river Men begin to fail entirely Determine to send two men forward for relief Their return Excursion on horseback Reach Pondebadgery Plain, and meet the supplies from the colony Cannibalism of the natives Return to Sydney Concluding remarks.
The attention of the government was, consequently, fixed upon the Morumbidgee, a river stated to be of considerable size and of impetuous current. Receiving its supplies from the lofty ranges behind Mount Dromedary, it promised to hold a longer course than those rivers which, depending on periodical rains alone for existence, had been found so soon to exhaust themselves.
The Morumbidgee came down to the foot of this little hill from the south, and, of course, running to the north, which latter direction it suddenly takes up from a previous S.W. one, on meeting some hills that check its direct course.
The bottom of the estuary, for it cannot be called a valley, being then left exposed, it consequently remains the natural and proper reservoir for the streams from the eastward, or those falling easterly from the westward, if any such remain to be discovered. From the junction of the Morumbidgee to the junction of the new river, the Murray had held a W.N.W. course.
The boats were allowed to drift along at pleasure, and such was the force with which we had been shot out of the Morumbidgee, that we were carried nearly to the bank opposite its embouchure, whilst we continued to gaze in silent astonishment on the capacious channel we had entered; and when we looked for that by which we had been led into it, we could hardly believe that the insignificant gap that presented itself to us was indeed the termination of the beautiful and noble stream whose course we had thus successfully followed."
We would gladly have fired into the flights of wild fowl that winged their way over us, for we, about this time, began to feel the consequences of the disaster that befell us in the Morumbidgee.
The Morumbidgee from Juggiong to our present encampment had held a general S.S.W. course, but from the summit of a hill behind the tents it now appeared to be gradually sweeping round to the westward; and I could trace the line of trees upon its banks, through a rich and extensive valley in that direction, as far as my sight could reach.
Thus, when my apprehensions on our own account had partly ceased, my fears became excited with regard to him and his party. The country, to a considerable distance from the junction on either side the Morumbidgee, is not subject to inundation. Wherever we landed upon its banks, we found the calistemma in full flower, and in the richest profusion.
Hovel in 1823; but, as I have already remarked, I apprehend that all the rivers those gentlemen crossed, had united in one main stream above the junction of the Morumbidgee, and I think it much more probable that this is a new river, and that it rises to the westward of Port Phillips, rather than in the S.E. angle of the coast.
Wherever the situation favoured our obtaining a view of the country on either side of us, while among these hills, we found that to the eastward lofty and mountainous; whilst that to the westward, had the appearance of fast sinking into a level. A short time before we reached the Morumbidgee, we forded a creek, which we crossed a second time where it falls into the river.
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