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. . . though not ready to shrink from difficulties and not unwilling
to encounter adventures, I did not think it prudent to contend with the
inclemency of the approaching winter in an inhospitable position among the
mountains; when I recollected that the month was May [1852], and that in the
month of March preceding, a party of Aborigines, coming from the Murray River to
Maneroo, were overtaken in a snow storm, and that, whilst one man was severely
frost-burnt and crippled, two others were completely smothered in the drift,
within a short distance of the very spot upon which I and my party encamped on
the 22nd and 23rd December, 1851 (Clarke
1860:221).
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