This Was An Obstruction Of A
Very Serious Nature; But As I Had No Money To Maintain Myself Even
For A Few Days, I Resolved To Push On, And If I Could Not Convey My
Horse Across The River, To Abandon Him, And Swim Over Myself.
In
thoughts of this nature I passed the night, and in the morning
consulted with my landlord how I should surmount the present
difficulty.
He informed me that one road still remained, which was
indeed very rocky, and scarcely passable for horses, but that if I
had a proper guide over the hills to a town called Sibidooloo, he
had no doubt but with patience and caution I might travel forwards
through Manding. I immediately applied to the dooty, and was
informed that a jilli kea (singing man) was about to depart for
Sibidooloo, and would show me the road over the hills. With this
man, who undertook to be my conductor, I travelled up a rocky glen
about two miles, when we came to a small village, and here my
musical fellow-traveller found out that he had brought me the wrong
road. He told me that the horse-road lay on the other side of the
hill, and throwing his drum on his back, mounted up the rocks where,
indeed, no horse could follow him, leaving me to admire his agility,
and trace out a road for myself. As I found it impossible to
proceed, I rode back to the level ground, and directing my course to
the eastward, came about noon to another glen, and discovered a path
on which I observed the marks of horses' feet.
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