Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound In The Years 1840-1: Sent By The Colonists Of South Australia By Eyre, Edward John
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During The Night Some Other Horse Had Kicked
Him And Broken The Thigh Bone Of The Hind Leg.
The poor animal was in
great pain and unable to rise at all, I was therefore obliged to order
the overseer to shoot him.
By this accident we lost a most useful horse
at a time when we could but ill spare one.
During our progress to the south we had frequently showers and
occasionally heavy rains, which lodging in puddles on the plains,
supplied us abundantly with water, and we were unusually fortunate enough
to obtain grass also. We were thus enabled to push on upon nearly a
straight course, which, after seven days of hard travelling, brought us
once more, on the afternoon of the 12th, to our old position at the depot
near Mount Arden. I had intended to have halted the party here for a day
or two, to recruit after the severe march we had just terminated; but the
weather was so favourable and the season so far advanced, that I did not
like to lose an hour in following out my prospective plans.
During the homeward journey from the Mundy, I had reflected much on the
position in which I was placed, and spent many an anxious hour in
deliberating as to the future. I had one of three alternatives to choose,
either to give up the expedition altogether; - to cross to the Murray to
the east and follow up that river to the Darling; - or by crossing over to
Streaky Bay to the westward, to endeavour to find some opening leading
towards the interior in that direction.
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