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...there, all right," said Hunter Ron Sells, insisting he had spotted a white girl running wild with a herd of kangaroos across the Nullarbor desert in southwestern Australia. "When she saw us, she watched us for a few minutes, and then she dashed off with the 'roos into the scrub...
...that time, two enterprising cameramen had managed to produce some pictures of a girl running with the kangaroos-and actually pulling their tails. Desert-wise oldtimers in the sun-parched Nullarbor, however, were not convinced. "Any bird go flitting around in the scrub here with nothing on," snorted one bushman, "would bloody soon burn off what's bobbing, I can tip you." Added Sheep Farmer Harvey Gurney: "The water holes are all dried up. She'd be burned to a crisp...
West across lonely Nullarbor Plain, the cars slewed through mud flats and jounced across frame-cracking bogholes. Nine cars overturned in one nightmare, 557-mile stretch from Albany to Narrogin in Western Australia. Of the 90 cars from eight countries that left Melbourne, only 79 got as far as Perth, all but two losing points all the way. As in most rallies and reliability trials, cars were penalized for passing secret checkpoints too early or too late, for breaking traffic laws and for making any of a long list of repairs...
Gloucester arrived in Australian waters early in October on H. M. S. Sussex, which dropped him off at Perth, capital of Western Australia. Climbing into a private car, he rolled for days through the vast desolation of the Yilgarn Goldfields, the Hampton Tableland and the red-soiled Nullarbor Plain to Adelaide (1.600 miles). There the Sussex picked him up. carried him 500 more miles to Melbourne. Six bay horses with postilion riders bore H. R. H. in the Victorian State carriage to Parliament House where he read a message from his father: "A country so richly endowed by Nature...