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Updated: May 6, 2025
Yarloo followed the Musgrave native's tracks for about half a mile in a nearly south direction, and then came upon a stony plain with a few large bushes growing at one end of it. He gave a yell of delight. They were needle-bushes. The party was saved. Here was water, stored by nature right in the middle of an arid desert.
It needed great care and patience to minister to the perishing white boys, and not many natives would have done what Yarloo did for Sax and Vaughan during that blazing day. He made trip after trip to the stony plain where the needle-bushes were growing, and, with the water obtained in this way, he gradually revived his two friends.
"White boy close up finish," replied Yarloo, still taking care of the quart-pot of dark water. "Close up finish?" echoed Mick in surprise. Yarloo tried to explain, but his vocabulary of white man's words was too small. "But white boy close up finish," objected the drover. "No finish now," grinned Yarloo, pointing to the other burnt needle-bushes near. "No finish now. Him good fella now, quite."
The powers of recovery which a healthy lad possesses are wonderful, and before nightfall both lads were sitting up under the shelter, with their thirst quite quenched, and actually feeling hungry. Yarloo went away for the last time to get another quart-pot of water from the needle-bushes. To do this, he had to fire another tree.
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