The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.

As soon as the shades of evening close in over the Australian forest, the ear is startled by the cry of morepoke, clearly and loudly repeated, and a bird as large as an owl flits by on noiseless wing, like the goat-sucker at home. This is the Morepoke, a species of large night-jar, all head and mouth, about the size of an owl.

Moses once more his potent rod extends.

to water silk