Vulgar words in Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales (Page 1)
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Both men and horses were quite knocked up, and our embarrassment was heightened by the want of water for ourselves and them, as this desert did not hold out the slightest hope of finding any.
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The country continued open forest land for about three miles, the cypress and the bastard box being the prevailing timber; of the former many were useful trees.
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In less than a mile, the timber had entirely changed from the bastard box to another kind of eucalyptus, called common blue gum, which grew in great luxuriance in the country before us.
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we stopped about half a mile inside the entrance, on a spot affording good grass and water for the horses, the greater part of which were entirely knocked up; insomuch that I began to fear we would take very few of them to Newcastle.