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210. Endeavours River
was earnestly wishd for by all of us, at last
7. it came & with its first dawn we set out in search of Game we walkd many miles over the flats & saw 4 of the animals 2 of which my greyhound fairly chas'd but they beat him owing to the lengh & thickness of the grass which prevented him from running while they at every bound leapd over the tops of it we observd much to our surprize that instead of Going upon all fours this animal went only upon two legs making vast bounds Just as the Jerbua (Mus Jaculus) does. We returnd about noon & pursued our course up the river which soon contracted itself into a fresh water brook where however the tide rose pretty considerably towards evening it was so shallow being almost low water that we were obligd to get out of the boat & drag her so finding a convenient place for sleeping in we resolvd to go no farther; before our things were got up out of the boat we observd a smoak about a furlong from us we did not doubt at all that the natives who we had so long had a curiosity to see well were there so three of us went immediately towards it hoping that the
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