behind them.

Among other things, we found a number of bark troughs, filled with the gum of the mimosa, and vast quantities of gum made into cakes upon the ground.

From this it would appear these unfortunate creatures were reduced to the last extremity, and, being unable to procure any other nourishment, had been obliged to collect this mucilaginous food.
The plains we traversed, were of uniform equality of surface.

Water evidently lodges and continues on them long after a fall of rain, and in wet seasons they must, I should imagine, be full of quagmires, and almost impassable.
On the 10th, we passed through a country that differed in no material point from that already described.

We stopped at 10 a.m.under some brush, in the centre of a large plain, from which Arbuthnot's range bore S.84 E.
distant from 50 to 55 miles, and afterwards traversed or rather crossed, those extensive tracts described by Mr.Evans as being under water and covered with reeds, in 1817.