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Australia Twice Traversed
The Romance of Exploration

CHAPTER 1
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I made another search during the morning for more water, but without success, and I can only conclude that this water was permitted by Providence to remain here in this lonely spot for my especial benefit, for no more rain had fallen here than at any of the other hills in the neighbourhood, nor is this one any higher or different from the others which I visited, except that this one had a little water and all the rest none.

In gratitude therefore to this hill I have called it Mount Udor.

Mount Udor was the only spot where water was to be found in this abominable region, and when I left it the udor had departed also.

I got two of my riding-horses shod to-day, as the country I intended to travel over is about half stones and half scrub.

I have marked a eucalyptus or gum-tree in this gully close to the foot of the rock where I found the water [EG/21], as this is my twenty-first camp from Chambers' Pillar.
My position here is in latitude 23 degrees 14', longitude 130 degrees 55', and variation 3 degrees east nearly.


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