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That
morning
there
was
not
even
a
question
of
breakfast
.
Nothing
could
be
more
barren
than
this
region
strewn
with
pieces
of
quartz
.
Not
only
hunger
,
but
thirst
began
to
assail
the
travelers
.
A
burning
atmosphere
heightened
their
discomfort
.
Glenarvan
and
his
friends
could
only
go
half
a
mile
an
hour
.
Should
this
lack
of
food
and
water
continue
till
evening
,
they
would
all
sink
on
the
road
,
never
to
rise
again
.
But
when
everything
fails
a
man
,
and
he
finds
himself
without
resources
,
at
the
very
moment
when
he
feels
he
must
give
up
,
then
Providence
steps
in
.
Water
presented
itself
in
the
CEPHALOTES
,
a
species
of
cup-shaped
flower
,
filled
with
refreshing
liquid
,
which
hung
from
the
branches
of
coralliform-shaped
bushes
.
They
all
quenched
their
thirst
with
these
,
and
felt
new
life
returning
.
The
only
food
they
could
find
was
the
same
as
the
natives
were
forced
to
subsist
upon
,
when
they
could
find
neither
game
,
nor
serpents
,
nor
insects
.
Paganel
discovered
in
the
dry
bed
of
a
creek
,
a
plant
whose
excellent
properties
had
been
frequently
described
by
one
of
his
colleagues
in
the
Geographical
Society
.
It
was
the
NARDOU
,
a
cryptogamous
plant
of
the
family
Marsilacea
,
and
the
same
which
kept
Burke
and
King
alive
in
the
deserts
of
the
interior
.
Under
its
leaves
,
which
resembled
those
of
the
trefoil
,
there
were
dried
sporules
as
large
as
a
lentil
,
and
these
sporules
,
when
crushed
between
two
stones
,
made
a
sort
of
flour
.
This
was
converted
into
coarse
bread
,
which
stilled
the
pangs
of
hunger
at
least
.
There
was
a
great
abundance
of
this
plant
growing
in
the
district
,
and
Olbinett
gathered
a
large
supply
,
so
that
they
were
sure
of
food
for
several
days
.
The
next
day
,
the
24th
,
Mulrady
was
able
to
walk
part
of
the
way
.
His
wound
was
entirely
cicatrized
.
The
town
of
Delegete
was
not
more
than
ten
miles
off
,
and
that
evening
they
camped
in
longitude
140
degrees
,
on
the
very
frontier
of
New
South
Wales
.
For
some
hours
,
a
fine
but
penetrating
rain
had
been
falling
.
There
would
have
been
no
shelter
from
this
,
if
by
chance
John
Mangles
had
not
discovered
a
sawyer
's
hut
,
deserted
and
dilapidated
to
a
degree
.
But
with
this
miserable
cabin
they
were
obliged
to
be
content
.
Wilson
wanted
to
kindle
a
fire
to
prepare
the
NARDOU
bread
,
and
he
went
out
to
pick
up
the
dead
wood
scattered
all
over
the
ground
.
But
he
found
it
would
not
light
,
the
great
quantity
of
albuminous
matter
which
it
contained
prevented
all
combustion
.
This
is
the
incombustible
wood
put
down
by
Paganel
in
his
list
of
Australian
products
.
They
had
to
dispense
with
fire
,
and
consequently
with
food
too
,
and
sleep
in
their
wet
clothes
,
while
the
laughing
jackasses
,
concealed
in
the
high
branches
,
seemed
to
ridicule
the
poor
unfortunates
.
However
,
Glenarvan
was
nearly
at
the
end
of
his
sufferings
.
It
was
time
.
The
two
young
ladies
were
making
heroic
efforts
,
but
their
strength
was
hourly
decreasing
.
They
dragged
themselves
along
,
almost
unable
to
walk
.
Next
morning
they
started
at
daybreak
.
At
11
A.
M.
Delegete
came
in
sight
in
the
county
of
Wellesley
,
and
fifty
miles
from
Twofold
Bay
.
