They can live without water, but, at times, build so near a watercourse as to have their structures swept away by floods.

Their flesh is very good eating.
In ten miles we had passed several little gullies, and reached the foot of other hills, where a few Australian pines were scattered here and there.

These hills have a glistening, sheening, laminated appearance, caused by the vast quantities of mica which abounds in them.

Their sides are furrowed and corrugated, and their upper portions almost bare rock.

Time was lost here in unsuccessful searches for water, and we departed to another range, four or five miles farther on, and apparently higher; therefore perhaps more likely to supply us with water.