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LEAVE THE LAST STATION—FOSSIL REMAINS—DARLING
DOWNS—ENTER THE WILDERNESS—WATERLOO PLAINS—THE
CONDAMINE—HEAVY RAINS—CHARLEY'S MISCONDUCT—MURPHY
AND CALEB LOST—KENT'S LAGOON—COAL—MURPHY AND
CALEB FOUND AGAIN.
PARTY REDUCED BY THE RETURN OF MR. HODGSON AND CALEB—MEET
FRIENDLY NATIVES—NATIVE TOMB—THE DAWSON—VERVAIN
PLAINS—GILBERT'S RANGE—LYND'S RANGE—ROBINSON'S
CREEK—MURPHY'S LAKE—MOUNTAINOUS
COUNTRY—EXPEDITION RANGE—MOUNT NICHOLSON—ALDIS'S
PEAK—THE BOYD.
RUINED CASTLE CREEK—ZAMIA CREEK—BIGGE'S
MOUNTAIN—ALLOWANCE OF FLOUR REDUCED—NATIVES SPEAR A
HORSE—CHRISTMAS RANGES—BROWN'S
LAGOONS—THUNDER-STORMS—ALBINIA DOWNS—COMET
CREEK—NATIVE CAMP.
SWARMS OF COCKATOOS—ALLOWANCE OF FLOUR FURTHER
REDUCED—NATIVE FAMILY—THE
MACKENZIE—COAL—NATIVES SPEAKING A DIFFERENT
IDIOM—MOUNT STEWART—BROWN AND MYSELF MISS THE WAY BACK
TO THE CAMP—FIND OUR PARTY AGAIN, ON THE FOURTH
DAY—NEUMAN'S CREEK—ROPER'S PEAK—CALVERT'S
PEAK—GILBERT'S DOME—GREAT WANT OF WATER.
DIFFERENCE OF SOIL AS TO MOISTURE—PHILLIPS'S
MOUNTAIN—ALLOWANCE OF FLOUR REDUCED AGAIN—HUGHS'S
CREEK—TOMBSTONE CREEK—CHARLEY AND BROWN BECOME
UNRULY—THE ISAACS—NATIVE WOMEN—COXEN'S PEAK AND
RANGE—GEOLOGICAL CHARACTER—CHARLEY REBELS AGAIN AND
LEAVES—BROWN FOLLOWS HIM—BOTH RETURN
PENITENT—VARIATIONS OF THE WEATHER—SKULL OF
NATIVE—FRIENDLY NATIVES VISIT THE CAMP.
HEADS OF THE ISAACS—THE
SUTTOR—FLINT-ROCK—INDICATIONS OF WATER—DINNER OF
THE NATIVES APPROPRIATED BY US—EASTER SUNDAY—ALARM OF
AN OLD WOMAN—NATIVES SPEAKING A LANGUAGE ENTIRELY UNKNOWN TO
CHARLEY AND BROWN—A BARTER WITH THEM—MOUNT M'CONNEL.
THE BURDEKIN—TRANSITION FROM THE DEPOSITORY TO THE PRIMITIVE
ROCKS—THACKER'S RANGE—WILD FIGS—GEOLOGICAL
REMARKS—THE CLARKE—THE PERRY.
BROWN AND CHARLEY QUARREL—NIGHT WATCH—ROUTINE OF OUR
DAILY LIFE, AND HABITS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY—MOUNT
LANG—STREAMS OF LAVA—A HORSE BREAKS HIS LEG, IS KILLED
AND EATEN—NATIVE TRIBE—MR. ROPER'S
ACCIDENT—WHITSUNDAY—BIG ANT HILL CREEK—DEPRIVED
OF WATER FOR FIFTY HOURS—FRIENDLY NATIVES—SEPARATION
CREEK—THE LYND—PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF A SOJOURN IN
THE WILDERNESS—NATIVE CAMP—SALT EXHAUSTED.
THE STARRY HEAVENS—SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE—SAWFISH—
TWO-STORIED GUNYAS OF THE NATIVES—THE MITCHELL—MURPHY'S
PONY POISONED—GREEN TREE-ANT—NEW
BEVERAGE—CROCODILE— AUDACITY OF KITES—NATIVES NOT
FRIENDLY—THE CAMP ATTACKED AT NIGHT BY THEM—MESSRS.
ROPER AND CALVERT WOUNDED, AND MR. GILBERT KILLED.
INDICATIONS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE SEA—NATIVES MUCH MORE
NUMEROUS—THE SEA; THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA—THE
STAATEN—A NATIVE INTRUDES INTO THE CAMP—THE VAN
DIEMEN—THE GILBERT—SINGULAR NATIVE HUTS—CARON
RIVER—FRIENDLY NATIVES—THE YAPPAR—MR. CALVERT
RECOVERED—MODE OF ENCAMPMENT—SWARMS OF
FLIES—ABUNDANCE OF SALT—NATIVES FRIENDLY, AND MORE
INTELLIGENT.
SYSTEMATIC GRASS BURNINGS OF THE NATIVES—NATIVE
CARVING—AUDACITY OF THE NATIVES OVERAWED—THE ALBERT, OR
MAET SUYKER—NATIVE MODE OF MAKING SURE OF A DEAD EMU—
BULLOCK BOGGED; OBLIGED TO KILL IT—NATIVE DEVICE FOR TAKING
EMUS—BEAMES'S BROOK—THE NICHOLSON—RECONNOITRE BY
NIGHT—SMITH'S CREEK—THE MARLOW.
HEAPS OF OYSTER-SHELLS—FALSE ALARM OF A NATIVE IN THE
CAMP—TURNER'S CREEK—WENTWORTH'S CREEK—JOURNALS
LOST; FOUND AGAIN—THE VAN ALPHEN—IMPORTANCE OF
TEA—CHOICE OF BULLOCKS FOR AN EXPEDITION—CHOICE OF A
DOG—THE CALVERT—THE ABEL TASMAN—GLUCKING BIRD
AGAIN—DISCOVER A MODE OF USING THE FRUIT OF THE
PANDANUS—SEVEN EMU RIVER—CROCODILE—THE
ROBINSON—SHOAL OF PORPOISES—NATIVE METHOD OF PREPARING
THE FRUIT OF THE PANDANUS AND CYCAS FOR FOOD—MR. ROPER
CONVALESCENT—WEAR AND TEAR OF CLOTHES—SUCCEED IN
DRESSING THE SEEDS OF STERCULIA—THE MACARTHUR—FRIENDLY
PARLEY WITH CIRCUMCISED NATIVES—STORE OF TEA
EXHAUSTED—MEDICAL PROPERTY OF THE GREVILLEA DISCOVERED.
CAPE MARIA—OBLIGED TO LEAVE A PORTION OF OUR COLLECTION OF
NATURAL HISTORY—LIMMEN BIGHT RIVER—HABITS OF WATER
BIRDS—NATIVE FISH TRAP—THE FOUR ARCHERS—THE
WICKHAM—THE DOG DIES—IMMENSE NUMBER OF DUCKS AND
GEESE—THE ROPER—THREE HORSES DROWNED—OBLIGED TO
LEAVE A PORTION OF MY BOTANICAL COLLECTION—MORE INTERCOURSE
WITH FRIENLDY NATIVES, CIRCUMCISED—HODGSON'S CREEK—THE
WILTON—ANOTHER HORSE DROWNED—ANXIETY ABOUT OUR
CATTLE—AN ATTACK ON THE CAMP
FRUSTRATED—BOILS—BASALT AGAIN—INJURIOUS EFFECTS
OF THE SEEDS OF AN ACACIA.
INTERVIEW WITH A NATIVE—DISTRESSING HEAT—A HORSE
STAKED: IT DIES—MYRIADS OF FLYING-FOXES—MAGNIFICENT
VALLEY—FRIENDLY NATIVES—SHOT EXHAUSTED—INSTINCT
OF BULLOCKS—SOUTH ALLIGATOR RIVER—FRIENDLY NATIVES WITH
AN ENGLISH HANDKERCHIEF, AND ACQUAINTED WITH FIRE-ARMS—THEIR
LANGUAGE—MIRAGE.
JOY AT MEETING NATIVES SPEAKING SOME ENGLISH—THEY ARE VERY
FRIENDLY—ALLAMURR—DISCERNMENT OF NATIVE
SINCERITY—EAST ALLIGATOR RIVER—CLOUDS OF DUST MISTAKEN
FOR SMOKE— IMPATIENCE TO REACH THE END OF THE
JOURNEY—NATIVES STILL MORE
INTELLIGENT—NYUALL—BUFFALOES; SOURCE FROM WHICH THEY
SPRUNG—NATIVE GUIDES ENGAGED; BUT THEY DESERT US—MOUNT
MORRIS BAY—RAFFLES BAY—LEAVE THE PACKHORSE AND BULLOCK
BEHIND—BILL WHITE—ARRIVE AT PORT ESSINGTON—VOYAGE
TO SYDNEY.
LETTER FROM THE COLONIAL SECRETARY TO DR. LEICHHARDT
THE LEICHHARDT TESTIMONIAL
LIST OF PLATES (Not included in this etext)
Lagoon near South Alligator River
Portraits of "Charley" and "Harry Brown"
Mount Nicholson, Expedition Range, &c.
Peak Range
Red Mountain
Fletcher's Awl, &c.
Campbell's Peak
Mount M'Connel.
Ranges seen from a granitic hill between second and third camp at
the Burdekin
Robey's Range
Grasshopper
View near South Alligator River
Victoria Square, Port Essington