 | Great Britain - 1849 - 546 pages
...and I went back again into the scrub ; then I went down the creek which runs into Escape Kiver, and I walked along the water in the creek very easy, with...blacks, and get out of their way ; in this way I went half a mile ; then I got out of the creek and got clear of them, and walked on all night nearly, and... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1852 - 430 pages
...and I went back again into the scrub. Then I went down the creek which runs into Escape River, and I walked along the water in the creek very easy, with...blacks, and get out of their way. In this way I went half a mile; then I got out of the creek, and got clear of them, and walked on all the night nearly,... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1852 - 430 pages
...head only above water, to avoid the blacks, and get out of their way. In this way I went half a mile ; then I got out of the creek, and got clear of them, and walked on all the night nearly, and slept in the bush without a fire. I went on next morning, and I felt very bad,... | |
 | George William Rusden - Australia - 1883 - 760 pages
...and I went back again into the scrub. " Then I went down the creek which runs into Escape river, and I walked along the water in the creek very easy, with my head only above, to avoid the blacks and get out of their way. In this way I went half a mile. Then I got out of the... | |
 | George William Rusden - Australia - 1883 - 768 pages
...runs into Escape river, and I walked along the water in the creek very easy, with my head only above, to avoid the blacks and get out of their way. In this way I went half a mile. Then I got out of the creek and got clear of them, and walked on all night nearly and... | |
 | Henry Stuart Russell - Darling Downs (Qld.) - 1888 - 652 pages
...head only above water, to avoid the blacks and get out of their way. In this way I went half a mile ; then I got out of the creek and got clear of them,...in the bush without a fire. I went on next morning, and felt very bad, and I spelled for two days. I lived upon nothing but salt water. " Next day I went... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Australia - 1888 - 510 pages
...head only above water to avoid the blacks and get out of their way. In this way I went half a mile. Then I got out of the creek and got clear of them,...night nearly, and slept in the bush without a fire." This was the sad tale. It took poor starving Jacky thirteen days to get to Port Albany, short as the... | |
 | Albert Frederick Calvert - Australia - 1896 - 428 pages
...went back again into the scrub. Then I went down into the creek, which runs into Escape River, and I walked along the water in the creek very easy, with...the bush without a fire. " I went on next morning, and felt very bad, and I spelled here for two days. I lived upon nothing but salt water. Next morning... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Biography & Autobiography - 1908 - 332 pages
...many; and I went back into the scrub. Then I went down the creek which runs into Escape River, and I walked along the water in the creek, very easy,...out of the creek, and got clear of them, and walked all night nearly, and slept in the bush without a fire." At the southern entrance of Albany Pass, one... | |
 | Robert Logan Jack - Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) - 1921 - 412 pages
...and I went back again into the scrub ; then I went down the creek which runs into ESCAPE RIVER, and I walked along the water in the creek very easy, with...blacks, and get out of their way ; in this way I went half a mile ; then I got out of the creek, and got clear of them, and walked on all night nearly, and... | |
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That night I left him near dark. I would go through the scrub, and the blacks threw spears at me — a good many — and I went back again into the scrub. Then I went down the creek, which runs into Escape river, and I walked along the water in the creek... 
