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adam_text | CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
Part
і.
»АО«
Rumours of the existence of a Southern Continent in the Sixteenth Century
—
Jave
and
Jame la
Grande
—
Authentic Discoveries and visits of the early
Navigators
—
Torres sails between New Guinea and Terra
Australie
—
Voyage
of the Duyflien in
ібоб
—
Dirk Hartog on the West Coast, his inscribed plate
—
Restored by
Vlaming
—
Afterwards by Hamelin
—
Nuyts on the South
Coast
—
Wreck of the
Batavia on
Houtman s
Abrolhos
—
Mutiny of Cornells
—
Tasman s second voyage
—
Dampier with the Buccaneers—Second voyage
in the Roebuck
—
Last visit of the Dutch
—
Captain Cook
—
Flinders
;
his theory
of a Dividing Strait
—
Plans for exploring the Interior
—
His Captivity
—
Captain King
—
Concluding remarks
........17
Part II.
The Continent of Australia
—
Its peculiar formation
—
The coast range and the
highest peaks thereof
—
The coastal rivers
—
The inland rivers
—
Difference of
vegetation on the tableland and on the coast
—
Exception to the rule
—
Valuable
timber of the coast districts
—
Animals common to the whole continent
—
Some
birds the same
—
Distinct habits of others
—
The Australian native and his
unknown origin
—
Water supply
—
Upheaval
.......35
Part I.
LAND EXPLORATION.
CHAPTER I.
Expeditions of Governor Phillip
—
Mouth of the Hawkesbury found in Broken
Bay
—
Second expedition and ascent of the river
—
Expedition of Captain
Tench
—
Discovery of the Nepean River
—
Lieutenant Dawes sent to cross the
Nepean, and to try to penetrate the mountains
—
Attempt by Governor Phillip
to establish the confluence of the Nepean and Hawkesbury
—
Failure
—
The
identity settled by Captain Tench
—
Escaped convicts try to reach China
—
Captain Paterson finds and names the Grose River
—
Hacking endeavours to
cross the Blue Mountains
—
The lost cattle found on the Cow Pastures
—
Bass
attempts the passage of the range
—
Supposed settlement of a white race in
the interior
—
Attempt of the convicts to reach it—James. Wilson
—
His life
with the natives— Discovery of the Hunter River by Lieutenant Shortland
. 43
CHAPTER II.
The great drought of 1813
—
The development of country by stocking
—
Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains
—
Reach the
head of coast waters and return
—
Surveyor Evans sent out
—
Crosses the water¬
shed and finds the Macquarie River
—
Construction of road over the range
—
Settlement of Bathurst
—
Visit of Governor Macquarie
—
Second expedition
under Evans—Discovery of -the Lachlan River
—
Surveyor-General Oxley
explores the Lachlan
—
Finds the river terminates in swamps
—
Returns by the
viii. CONTENTS.
ΡΑΟβ
Macquarie—
His opinion of the interior
—
Second expedition down the Mac-
quarie
—
Disappointment again
—
Evans finds the Castlereagh
—
Liverpool
Plains discovered
—
Oxley descends the range and finds Port Macquarie
—
Returns to Newcastle
—
Currie and^ Ovens cross the Morumbidgee
—
Brisbane
Downs and Monaroo
—
Hume and
Hoveli
cross to Port Phillip
—
Success of
the expedition
............
SS
CHAPTER III.
Settlement of
Moretón
Bay
—
Cunningham in the field again
—
His discoveries
of the Gwydir, Dumaresque, and
Condamine
Rivers—The Darling Downs,
and Cunningham s Gap through the Range to
Moretón
Bay
—
Description of
the Gap
—
Cunningham s death
—
Captain Sturt
—
His first expedition to follow
down the Macquarie
—
Failure of the river
—
Efforts of Sturt and Hume to
trace the channel
—
Discovery of New Year s Creek (the
Bogan)
—
Come
suddenly on the Darling
—
Dismay at finding the water salt
—
Retreat to
Mount Harris
—
Meet the relief party
—
Renewed attempt down the Castle¬
reagh River
—
Trace it to the Darling
—
Find the water in that river still salt
—
Return
—
Second expedition to follow the Morumbidgee
—
Favourable antici¬
pations
—
Launch of the boats and separation of the party
—
Unexpected
junction with the Murray
—
Threatened hostilities with the natives
—
Averted
in a most singular manner
—
Junction of large river from the North
—
Sturt s
conviction that it is the Darling
—
Continuation of the voyage
—
Final arrival
at Lake
Alexandrina
—
Return voyage
—
Starvation and fatigue
—
Constant
labour at the oars and stubborn courage of the men
—
Utter exhaustion
—
Two
men push forward to the relief party and return with succour
. . -78
CHAPTER IV.
Settlement at King George s Sound
—
The free colony of Swan River founded
—
Governor Stirling
—
Captain Bannister crosses from Perth to King George s
Sound
—
Explorations by Lieutenant Roe
—
Disappointing nature of the
interior
—
Bunbury, Wilson, and Moore
—
Settlement on the North Coast
—
Melville Island and Raffles Bay
—
An escaped convict s story
—
The fabulous
Kindur River
—
Major Mitchell starts in search of it
—
Discovery of the Namoi
—
The
Nundawar
Range
—
Failure of the boats
—
Reach the Gwydir River of
Cunningham
—
The
Karaula
—
Its identity with the Darling
—
Murder of the
two bullock-drivers
—
Mitchell s return
—
Murder of Captain Barker in
Encounter Bay
—
Major Mitchell s second expedition to trace the course of
the Darling
—
Traces the
Bogan
to its junction with that river
—
Fort Bourke
—
Progress down the river
—
Hostility of the natives
—
Skirmish with them
—
Return
—
Mitchell s third expedition
—
The Lachlan followed
—
Junction of the
Darling and the Murray reached—Mitchell s discovery of Australia Felix
. 100
CHAPTER V.
Lieutenants Grey and Lushington on the West Coast
—
Narrow Escape
—
Start
with an equipment of Timor Ponies
—
Grey wounded by the natives
—
Cave
drawings
—
Return, having discovered the Glenelg
—
Grey s second expedition
—
Landed at Bernier Island, in Shark s Bay, with three whale-boats
—
Cross to
CONTENTS.
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Dorre
Island
—
Violent storm
—
Discovery of the Goscoyne
—
Return to Bernier
Island
—
Find their
caché
of provisions destroyed by a hurricane
—
Hopeless
position
—
Attempted landing at Gautheaume Bay
—
Destruction of the boats
—
Walk to Perth—Great sufferings
—
Death of Smith
—
Eyre and the over-
landers
—
Discovery of Lake Hindmarsh
—
Exploration of Gippsland
—
Eyre s
explorations to the north
—
Discovery of Lake
Torrens
—
Disappointment in the
country bordering on it
—
Determines to goto King George s Sound
—
Repeated
attempts to reach the head of the Great Australian Bight
—
Loss of horses
—
Barren and scrubby country
—
Final determination to send back most of the
party
—
Starts with overseer and three natives
—
Hardship and suffering
—
Murder of the overseer by two of the natives
—
Eyre continues his journey with
the remaining boy
—
Relieved by the Mississippi, whaler
—
Reaches King
George s Sound
............117
CHAPTER VI.
Explorations around
Moretón
Bay
—
Development of the Eastern Coast
—
The
first pioneers of the Darling Downs
—
Stuart and Sydenham Russell
—
The
Condamine
River and Cecil Plains—Great interest taken in exploration at this
period
—
Renewed explorations around Lake
Torrens
—
Surveyor-General
Frome
—
Death of
Horrocks,
the first explorer to introduce camels
—
Sturt s
last expedition
—
Route by the Darling chosen
—
Poole fancies that he sees the
inland sea
—
Discovery of Flood s Creek
—
The Prison Depot
—
Impossible to
advance or retreat
—
Breaking up of the drought
—
Death of Poole
—
Fresh
attempts to the north
—
The desert
—
Eyre s Creek discovered
—
Return and fresh
attempt
—
Discoveries of Cooper and
Strzelecki
Creeks
—
Retreat to the Depot
Glen
—
Final return to the Darling
—
Ludwig
Leichhardt, the lost explorer
—
His great trip north
—
Finding of the Burdekin, the Mackenzie, Isaacs, and
Suttor
—
Murder of the naturalist Gilbert
—
Discovery of theGulf Rivers —Arrival
at Port Essington
—
His return and reception
—
Surveyor-General Mitchell s
last expedition
—
Follows up the Balonne
—
Crosses to the head of the Belyando
—
Disappointed in that river
—
Returns and crosses to the head of the Vic¬
toria (Barcoo)
—
The beautiful Downs country
—
First mention of the Mitchell
grass
—
False hopes entertained of the Victoria running into the Gulf of
Carpentaria
............. 138
CHAPTER
VII.
Kennedy traces the Victoria in its final course south
—
Re-named the Barcoo
—
First notice of the
pituri
chewing natives
—
Leichhardt s second expedition
—
Failure and return-
—
Leichhardt s last expedition
—
His absolute disappearance
—Conjectures as to his fate
—
Kennedy starts from Rockingham Bay to Cape
York
—
Scrubs and swamps
—
Great exertions
—
Hostile natives
—
Insufficiency
of supplies provided
—
Dying horses
—
Main party left in Weymouth Bay
—
Another separation at Shelburne Bay
—
Murder of Kennedy at the Escape
River
—
-.Rescue of Jacky the black boy
—
His pathetic tale of suffering
—
Failure
to find the camp at Shelburne Bay
—
Rescue of but two survivors at Wey¬
mouth Bay
—
The remainder starved to death
—Von
Mueller in the Australian
Alps
—
Western Australia
—
Landor and Lefroy in
1843—
First expedition of
X.
CONTENTS.
ΡΛΟΙ
thè brotheis
Gregory, in
1846—
Salt lakes and scrub
—
Lieutenant Helpman
sent to examine the coal seam discovered
—
Roe in
1848—
His journey to the
east and to the south
—
A. C. Gregory attempts to reach the Gascoyne
—
Foiled by the nature of the country
—
Discovers silver ore on the Murchison
—
Governor Fitzgerald visits the mine
—
Wounded by the natives
—
Rumour of
Leichhardt having been murdered by the blacks
—
Hely s expedition in quest
of him
—
Story unfounded
—
Austin s explorations in Western Australia
—
Terrible scrubs
—
Poison camp
—
Determined efforts to the north
—
Heat and
thirst
—
Forced to return
........... 162
CHAPTER
VIII.
A. C. Gregory s North Australian expedition in
1855-56,
accompanied by Baron
Von
Mueller and Dr. Elsey
—
Disappointment in the length of the Victoria-
Journey to the Westward
—
Discovery of Sturl s Creek
—
Its course followed
south
—
Termination in a salt lake
—
Return to Victoria River
—
Start home¬
ward, overland
—
The Albert identified
—
The Leichhardt christened
—
Return
by the Burdekin and Suttor
—
Visit of Babbage to Lake
Torrens—
Expedition
by Goyder
—
Deceived by mirage
—
Excitement in Adelaide
—
Freeling sent
out
—
Discovers the error
—
Hack explores the Gawler Range
—
Discovers Lake
Gairdner
—
Warburton in the same direction
—
Swinden and party west of
Lake
Torrens
—
Babbage in the Lake District
—
His long delay
—
Warburton
sent to supersede him
—
Rival claims to discovery
—
Frank Gregory explores
the Gascoyne in Western Australia
—
A. C. Gregory follows the Barcoo in
search of Leichhardt
—
Discovery of a marked tree
—
Arrival in Adelaide
—
The
early explorations of
M
Dowali
Stuart
—
Frank Gregory at Nickol Bay
—
Discovers the Ashburton
—
Fine pastoral country
—
Discovers the
De Grey
and
Oakover Rivers
—
Turned back by the desert
—
Narrow escape.
. . .184
CHAPTER IX.
Across the continent, from south to north
—
M Dowall Stuart s first attempt to
reach the north coast
—
Native warfare
—
Chambers Pillar
—
Central Mount
Stuart—Singular footprint
—
Sufferings from thirst
—
Aboriginal Freemasons
—
Attack Creek
—
Return
—
Stuart s second departure
—
The Victorian expedition
—
Costly equipment
—
Selection of a leader
—
Burke, and his qualifications
for the post
—
Wills
—
Resignation of Landells
—
Wright left in charge of the
main party— Burke and Wills, with six men, push on to Cooper s Creek
—
Delay of Wright
—
Burke s final determination to push on to the north coast
—
Starts with Wills and two men
—
Progress across the continent
—
Arrival at
the salt water
—
Wills account
—
Homeward journey
—
The depot deserted
—
Resolve to make for Mount Hopeless
—
Failure and return
—
Wills revisits the
depot
—
Kindness of the natives
—
Burke and King start in search of the blacks
—
Death of Burke
—
King finds Wills dead on his return
—
Wright and
Brahe
visit the depot
—
Fail to see traces of Burke s return
—
Consternation in Mel¬
bourne
—
Immediate despatch of search parties—
H
owitt finds King
—
Narrow
iSseãpe
of trooper Lyons
—
Stuart in the north
—
Hedgewood scrub first seen
—
Discovery of Newcastle Waters
—
All attempts to the north fruitless
—
Return
of Stuart.
.............203
CONTENTS. xi.
CHAPTER X.
Stuart s last Expedition— Frew s Pond—Daly Waters—Arrival at the Sea—The
flag at last hoisted on the northern shore—Return
—
Serious illness of the
Leader
—
The Burke relief Expedition
—
John M Kinlay
—
Native rumours
—
Discovery of Gray s body
—
Hodgkinson sent to Blanche Water with the news
—
Returns with the information of King s rescue by Howitt
—
M Kinlay starts
north
—
Reaches the Gulf coast
—
Makes for the new Queensland settlements
on the Burdekin
—
Reaches the Bowen River in safety
—
Mystery of the camels
tracks
—
Landsborough s expedition
—
Discovery of the Gregory River
—
The
Herbert
—
Return to the Albert depot
—
News of Burke and Wills
—
Lands-
borough reduces his party and starts home overland
—
Returns by way of the
Barcoo
—
Landsborough and his critics
—
His work as an Explorer
—
Walker
starts from Rockhampton
—
Another
L
tree found on the Barcoo
—
Walker
crosses the head of the Flinders
—
Finds the tracks of Burke and Wills
—
Tries
to follow them up
—
Returns to Queensland
—
Abandonment of the desert
theory
—
Private expeditions
—
Dalrymple and others
..... 222
CHAPTER XI.
Settlement formed at Somerset, Cape York, by the Queensland Government
—
Expedition of the Brothers
Jardine
—
Start from Carpentaria Downs Station-
Disaster by fire
—
Reduced resources
—
Arrive at the coast of the Gulf
—
Hos¬
tility of the blacks
—
Continual attacks
—
Horses mad through drinking salt
water
—
Poison country
—
An unfortunate camp
—
Still followed by the natives
—
Rain and bog
—
Dense scrub
—
Efforts of the two brothers to reach
Somerset
—
Final Success
—
Lull in exploration
—
Private parties—Settlement
at Escape Cliffs by South Australia
—
J. M Kinlay sent up
—
Narrow escape
from floods
—
Removal of the settlement to Port Darwin
—
M Intyre s expe¬
dition in search of Leichhardt
—
His death
—
Hunt in Western Australia
—
False reports about traces of Leichhardt
—
Forrest s first expedition
—
Sent to
investigate the report of the murder of white men in the interior
—
Convinced
of its want of truth
—
Unpromising country
—
Second expedition to Eucla
—
The cliffs of the Great Bight
—
Excursion to the north
—
Safe arrival at Eucla.
238
CHAPTER
XII.
The first expeditions of Ernest Giles
—
Lake Amadens
—
Determined attempts to
cross the desert
—
Death of Gibson
—
Return
—
Warburton s expedition
—
Messrs. Elder and Hughes
—
Outfit of camels
—
Departure from Alice Springs
—
Amongst the glens
—
Waterloo Well
—
No continuation to Sturt s Creek
—
Sufferings from starvation
—
Fortunate relief from death by thirst
—
Arrive
at the head of the Oakover
—
Lewis starts to obtain succour
—
His return
—
Gosse
sent out by the South Australian Government
—
Exploring bullocks
—
Ayre s rock
—
Obliged to retreat
—
Forrest s expedition from west to east
—
Good pastoral country
—
Windich Springs
—
The V/eld Springs
—
Attacked by
the natives
—
Lake Augusta
—
Dry country
—
Relieved by a shower
—
Safe arrival
and great success of the expedition
—
Ernest Giles in the field
—
Elder supplies
camels
—
The longest march ever made in Australia
—
Wonderful endurance of
the camels
—
The lonely desert
—
Strange discovery of water
—
Queen Victoria s
Spring
—
The march renewed
—
Attacked by blacks —Approach the well-known
country in Western Australia
—
Safe arrival
—
Giles returns overland, north of
Forrest s track
—
Little
orno
result
—
Great drought
—
The western interior
. 254
xii. CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
XIII.
Further explorations around Lake Eyre
—
Lewis equipped by Sir Thomas
Elder
—
He traces the lower course of the
Diamantina
—
Expedition to Char¬
lotte Bay under
W. Hann
—
A survivor of the wreck of the Maria
—
Discovery
of the Palmer
—
Gold prospects found
—
Arrival on the east coast
—
Dense
scrub
—
Return
—
The Palmer rush
—
Hodgkinson sent out
—
Follows down the
Diamantina
—
Discovery of the Mulligan
—
Mistaken for the Herbert
—
Private
Expedition
—
The Messrs. Prout-^Buchanan
—
F. Scarr
—
The
Queenslander
expedition
—
A dry belt of country
—
Native rites
—
A good game bag
—
Arrival
at the telegraph line
—
Alexander Forrest
—
The Leopold Range
—
Caught
between the cliffs and the sea
—
Fine pastoral country found
—
Arrival at the
Katherine
—
The Northern Territory and its future
.....269
CHAPTER
XIV.
The exploration of the continent by land almost completed
—
Minor expeditions
—
The Macarthurand other rivers running into Carpentaria traced
—
Good country
discovered and opened up
—
Sir Edward Pellew Group revisited
—
Lindsay sent
out by the
S.A.
Government to explore Arnheim s Land
—
Rough country and
great loss of horses
—
O Donnell makes an expedition to the Kimberley district
—
Sturt and Mitchell s different experiences with the blacks
—
Difference in the
east and west coasts
—
Use of camels
—
Opinions about them
—
The future of the
water supply
—
Adaptability of the country for irrigation
—
The great springs
of the Continent
—
Some peculiarities of them
—
Hot springs and mound springs
283
Part II.
MARITIME EXPLORATION.
CHAPTER XV.
Maritime Discoveries
...........
29s
CHAPTER
XVI.
Captain Cook compared to former Visitors
—
Point Hicks
—
Botany Bay
—
First
natives seen
—
Indifference to Overtures
—
Abundant flora
—
Entrance to Port
Jackson missed
—
Endeavour on a reef
—
Careened
—
Strange animals
—
Hostile
natives
—
A sailor s devil
—
Possession Island
—
Territory of New South Wales
—
Torres Straits a passage—
La Perouse
—
Probable fate discovered by Captain
Dillon
—
M Cluer touches Arnheim s Land
—
Bligh and
Portlock—
Wreck of
the Pandora
—
Vancouver in the south
—
The D Entrecasteaux quest
—
Recherche Archipelago
—
Bass and Flinders
—
Navigation and exploration
extraordinary
—
The Tom Thumb
—
Bass explores south
—
Flinders in the Great
Bight
—
Bass s Straits
—
Flinders in, the Investigator
—
Special instructions
—
King George s Sound
—
Loss of boat s crew
—
Memory Cove
—
Baudin s courtesy
—
Port Phillip
—
Investigator and Lady Nelson on East Coast
—
The Gulf of
Carpentaria and early Dutch navigators
—
Duyfhen Point
—
Cape
Keer-Weer—
Mythical rivers charted
—
Difficulty in recognising their land marks
—
Flinders great disappointment
—
A rotten ship
—
Return by way of west coast
—
Cape Vanderlin
—
Dutch Charts
—
Malay proas, Pobassoo
—
Return to Port
Jackson
—
Wreck of the Porpoise
—
Prisoner by the French
—
General
de Caen
—
Private papers and journals appropriated
—
Prepares his charts and logs
for press
—
Death
—
Sympathy by strangers
—
Forgotten by Australia
—
The
fate of Bass
—
Mysterious disappearance
—
Supposed Death
.... 319
CONTENTS. xiii.
CHAPTER
XVII.
The French expedition
—
Buonaparte s lavish outfitting
—
Baudin in the
Géographe
—
Coast casualties
—
Sterile and barren appearance
—
Privations of the crew
—
Sails for Timor
—
Hamelin in the
Naturaliste
—
Explores north-western coast
—
Swan River
—
Isle of
Rottnest—
Joins her consort at Coepang
—
Sails for Van
Dieman s Land
—
Examination of the south-east coast of Australia
—
Flinders
prior visit ignored
—
French names substituted
—
Discontent among crew
—
Baudin s unpopularity
—
Bad food
—
Port Jackson
—
Captain King s Voyages
—
Adventures in the Mermaid
—
An extensive commission
—
Allan Cunningham,
botanist
—
Search at Seal Islands for memorial of Flinders visit
—
Seed
sowing
—
Jeopardy to voyage
—
Giant anthills
—
An aboriginal Stoic
—
Cape
Arnheim and west coast exploration
—
Macquarie Strait
—
Audacity of natives
—
Botanical results satisfactory
—
Malay Fleet
—
Raffles Bay
—
Port Essington
—
Attack by natives
—
Cape Van Dieman
—
Malay Teachings
—
Timor and its
Rajah
—
Return to Port
—
Second Voyage
—
Mermaid and Lady Nelson
—
East
Coast
—
Cleveland Bay
—
Cocoa-nuts and pumice stones
—
Endeavour River
—
Thieving natives
—
Geological formation of adjacent country
—
Remarkable
coincidences
—
Across Gulf of Carpentaria
—
Inland excursion
—
Cambridge
Gulf
—
Ophthalmia amongst crew
—
Mermaid returns to port
.... 334
CHAPTER
XVIII.
King s Third Voyage
—
Early misadventures
—
Examines north-west coast closely
—
The Mermaid careened
—
Unforeseen result
—
Return to Sydney
—
The
Bathurst
—
King s Fourth Voyage
—
Last of the Mermaid
—
Love s stratagem
—
Remarkable cavern
—
Extraordinary drawings
—
Chasm Island
—
South-West
explorations
—
Revisites his old camp
—
Rich vegetation
—
Greville Island
—
Skirmish at Hanover Bay
—
Reminiscence of Dampier
—
His notes on the
natives and their mode of living
—
Cape Leveque
—
Buccaneers Archipelago
—
Provisions run out
—
Sails for the Mauritius
—
Survey of south-west re-com¬
menced
—
Cape Chatham
—
Oyster Harbour anchorage
—
A native s toilet
—
Seal
hunt
—
Friendly intercourse
—
Cape Inscription
—
Vandalism
—
Point Cloates not
an island
—
Vlaming
Head
—
Rowley Shoals
—
Cunningham
—
Botanical success
—
Rogers Island closely examined
—
Mainland traced further
—
An amazing
escape from destruction
—
Relinquishmentof survey
—
Sails for Sydney-^—Value
of King s Work
—
Settlement on Melville Island
—
Port Essington
—
Colonisa¬
tion
—
Fort building
—
A waif
—
Roguish visitors
—
Garrison life
—
Change of
scene
—
Raffles Bay
—
Dismal reports
—
Failure of attempt
.... 352
CHAPTER
XIX.
Cruise of H.M.S. Beagle
—
Passengers Grey and Lushington
—
Swan River
—
Northern coast survey commenced
—
Supposed channel at Dampier s Land
non-existent
—
Lie utenant Usborne accidentally shot
—
King s Sound
—
Effects of
a rainy season
—
Point Cunningham
—
Skeleton of a native found
—
New dis¬
coveries
—
Fitzroy River explored
—
Exciting incident
—
Boat excursion to
Collier Bay
—
Swan River
—
Native steward
Miago
—
Amusing inspection
—
Meeting with the explorers at Hanover Bay
—
Lieutenant Grey s description
of native tribes
—
Miago s memory
—
Fremantle
—
Needed communication
—
xiv. CONTENTS.
PAGE
Beagle at
Hobart
Town
—
Survey work at Cape Otway
—
Exploration of north¬
west coast
—
Reminiscences of colonisation—Discovery of the Adelaide River
—
A serious comedy
—
Port Essington and Clarence Straits
—
Harbour of Port
Darwin named
—
The Victoria River
—
Extravagant hopes
—
Land party
organized
—
Captain Stokes speared
—
Return to Swan River
—
Beagle again
North
—
Examination of Sweer s Island
—
Flinders and Albert Rivers discovered
—
Inland navigation
—
Gun accident
—
Native mode of burial
—
Fallacious
Theorising
—
The Beagle s surveying concludt-d
—
Maritime exploration closes.
369
CHAPTER XX.
Nationality of the first finders of Australia
—
Knowledge of the Malays—The
bamboo introduced
—
Traces of smallpox amongst the natives in the north¬
west
—
Tribal rites
—
Antipathy to pork
—
Evidence of admixture in origin
—
Influence of Asiatic civilisation partly visible
—
Coast appearance repelling
—
Want of indigenous food plants
—
Lack of intercourse with other nations
—
Little now left of unexplored country—Conclusions respecting various
geological formations
—
Extent of continental divisions
—
Development of
coastal towns
—
Inducements for population
—
Necessity of the first explorings
—
Pioneer squatters efforts
—
First Austral
ian
-born explorer
—
Desert theory
exploded
—
Feţtile
downs everywhere
—
Want of water apparently insurmount¬
able
—
Heroism of explorers
—
Inexperience of the early settlers
—
Grazing
possible
—
Rapid stocking of country
—
The barrenness of the Great Bight
—
Sturt, the Penn of Australia
—
Results
—
Mitchell s work
—
Baron
von
Mueller s researches
—
A salt lake
—
Stuart first man across the continent
—
Burke and Wills heroism
—
Services of M Kinlay and Landsborough
—
John Forrest s journeys
—
Camel expedition by Giles
—
The
Queenslander
expedition
—
Further explorations
—
Stockdale at Cambridge Gulf
—
Carr-
Boyd and O Donnell open good country in Western Australia
—
Work done
by explorers
—
Their characteristics
—
Conclusion.
...... 382
APPENDIX.
The Pandora Pass
—
Death of Surveyor-General Oxley
—
List of the men com¬
prising Sir Thomas Mitchell s party on his Expedition to the Victoria (Barcoo)
1846—
Richard Cunningham s Fate
—
Cave Drawings
—
Smith, a lad of eighteen
found dead, May 8th,
1839—
Eyre s Letters
—
Note by Sir George Gipps
—
Extractor letter from Major Mitchell
—
Minute by Sir George Gipps
—
Extract
of a letter of Mr. Walter Bagot
—
The last letter received from Dr. Leichhardt
—
The Nardoo Plant
—
The finding of John King
—
Poison Plants
. . . 401
Index of Names, Dates, and Incidents
....... 427
Chronological Summary
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