Take the following as truth: Two hundred pages further on there is less exuberance in the circumlocution  that fluid so terribly scarce in the region,  and in three other references water is simply water .  Giles is not always waxing poetic and may, like other explorers, be useful as a source for the history of Australian and general English.
Then the following statement: "Two hundred pages in, they say there is no fluid in the area because of the drought." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: False