A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
Clacy Ellen
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They soon extricatedme from this perilous situation, and carried me to their tents, where, by the assistance of my new friend, I was divested of the mud thatstill clung to me, and placed into bed. Before morning the storm, which we all thought had passed over, burstforth with redoubled fury; the flashes of lightning were succeeded byloud peals of thunder, and the rain came splashing down. Their tentswere situated on a slight rise, or they would have run great risk ofbeing washed away; every hol...e was filled with water, and the shea-oak, of whose friendly shelter we had availed ourselves the evening before, was struck by lightning, shivered into a thousand pieces. After a whilethe storm abated, and the warm sun and a drying wind were quicklyremoving all traces of it. Frank and my brother, after an early breakfast, had set out for EagleHawk Gully under the guidance of my fair friend's husband, who knew theroad thither very well; it was only three miles distant. He was tobring back with him a change of clothing for me, as his wife hadpersuaded my brother to leave me in her charge until I had quiterecovered from the effects of the accident, "which he more readilypromised, " she observed, "as we are not quite strangers, having metonce before.
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