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Updated: May 28, 2025
Passing through the small but thickly-populated and friendly little province of Moir, in a few days we sighted the well-known mountain Belignan, that we had formerly passed on its eastern side when we had started on our uncertain path from Gondokoro upwards of two years ago. The mountain of Belignan was now N.E. from our point of observation.
It was now evident that we had entered the most thickly-populated district of Australia that I had yet observed, and moreover one which must have been inhabited for a long series of years, for more had here been done to secure a provision from the ground by hard manual labour than I could have believed it in the power of uncivilised man to accomplish.
"`At night we were ordered to lie down before the fire, with a strong guard placed over us. We were generally amply fed, in order that our strength might be kept up. Although we passed through several thickly-populated districts, no one dared to help us for fear of the Arabs. At length we reached the bank of a river, near the sea-coast, where we found a large vessel ready to receive us.
As the sun grew high, dispelling the mists, I saw that we were entering upon a thickly-populated country which was no stranger to civilization of a sort. Below us, not more than fifteen or sixteen miles away, and clearly visible through my field-glasses, lay the great town of Harmac, which, during my previous visit to this land, I had never seen, as I passed it in the night.
Half of us at a time slipped away and fed in stinking taverns but the food was good. I cannot remember a hotter day, and we were marching through a thickly-populated mining district the villages were uncomfortably like those round Dour. The people were enthusiastic and generous with their fruit and with their chocolate.
A thickly-populated province, only sparsely dotted with lofty hills, would be ill-suited for the residence of a nomadic hunting race ignorant of agriculture. In spite of these neighborly communications, however, they have preserved many of their own primitive manners and customs.
One might fancy oneself in one of the most fertile and thickly-populated districts of Java. It was extremely dirty, and the priest, an Augustinian, was full of proselytish ardor.
Magallanes and more than thirty of his companions were afterward killed while fighting in behalf of this island against the people of Matan, a thickly-populated island situated near this one. Afterward the two islands made peace privately between themselves, and the inhabitants of the town of Cibu killed many of the Spaniards of the same fleet, and drove the remaining few away from their land.
We set sail with the Indian, and when we reached Macagua I sent him and three others, who went with him to their village in a canoe, after giving them some clothes. He was quite well satisfied, according to his own words, and became our friend. This Macagua, although small, was once a thickly-populated island. The Castilians who anchored there were wont to be kindly received.
The vehicles which met from the two roads the Great Western, leading in from Kangaroo, and the Gulagong, coming from the thickly-populated valley down the river-banks had gone into town earlier for the Saturday night promenade, and we practically had to ourselves the broad highway, showing white in the soft starlight.
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