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Title: Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration
Author: Ernest Giles
Release Date: January, 2004 [EBook #4974] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on April 8, 2002] [Date last updated: June 1st, 2002]
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED ***
Produced by Sue Asscher
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AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED.
THE ROMANCE OF EXPLORATION,
BEING
A NARRATIVE COMPILED FROM THE JOURNALS
OF
FIVE EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS
INTO AND THROUGH
CENTRAL SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
FROM 1872 TO 1876.
BY
ERNEST GILES
FELLOW, AND GOLD MEDALLIST, OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
"GO FORTH, MY BOOK, AND SHOW THE THINGS, PILGRIMAGE UNTO THE PILGRIM BRINGS."
BUNYAN.
(PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR. Signed: "Yours faithfully, Ernest Giles.")
CONTENTS.
AUTHOR'S NOTES.
INTRODUCTION.
PREFACE.
BOOK 1.
CHAPTER 1.
1. From 4th to 30th August, 1872.
CHAPTER 1.
2. From 30th August to 6th September, 1872.
CHAPTER 1.
3. From 6th to 17th September, 1872.
CHAPTER 1.
4. From 17th September to 1st October, 1872.
CHAPTER 1.
5. From 1st to 15th October, 1872.
CHAPTER 1.
6. From 15th October, 1872 to 31st January, 1873.
BOOK 2.
CHAPTER 2.
1. From 4th to 22nd August, 1873.
CHAPTER 2.
2. From 22nd August to 10th September, 1873.
CHAPTER 2.
3. From 10th to 30th September, 1873.
CHAPTER 2.
4. From 30th September to 9th November, 1873.
CHAPTER 2.
5. From 9th November to 23rd December, 1873.
CHAPTER 2.
6. From 23rd December, 1873 to 16th January, 1874.
CHAPTER 2.
7. From 16th January to 19th February, 1874.
CHAPTER 2.
8. From 20th February to 12th March, 1874.
CHAPTER 2.
9. From 12th March to 19th April, 1874.
CHAPTER 2.
10. From 20th April to 21st May, 1874.
CHAPTER 2.
11. From 21st May to 20th July, 1874.
BOOK 3.
CHAPTER 3.
1. From 13th March to 1st April, 1875.
CHAPTER 3.
2. From 2nd April to 6th May, 1875.
BOOK 4.
CHAPTER 4.
1. From 6th May to 27th July, 1875.
CHAPTER 4.
2. From 27th July to 6th October, 1875.
CHAPTER 4.
3. From 6th October to 18th October, 1875.
CHAPTER 4.
4. From 18th October to 18th November, 1875.
BOOK 5.
CHAPTER 5.
1. From 18th November, 1875 to 10th April, 1876.
CHAPTER 5.
2. From 10th April to 7th May, 1876.
CHAPTER 5.
3. From 7th May to 10th June, 1876.
CHAPTER 5.
4. From 11th June to 23rd August, 1876.
CHAPTER 5.
5. From 23rd August to 20th September, 1876.
APPENDIX.
INDEX.
***
(ILLUSTRATIONS.
PORTRAIT OF AUTHOR.
CHAMBERS' PILLAR.
THE MOLOCH HORRIDUS.
VIEW IN THE GLEN OF PALMS.
PALM-TREE FOUND IN THE GLEN OF PALMS.
GLEN EDITH.
PENNY'S CREEK.
ESCAPE GLEN--THE ADVANCE.
ESCAPE GLEN--THE RETREAT.
MIDDLETON'S PASS AND FISH PONDS.
JUNCTION OF THE PALMER AND THE FINKE.
AN INCIDENT OF TRAVEL.
TIETKENS'S BIRTHDAY CREEK AND MOUNT CARNARVON.
ON BIRTHDAY CREEK.
ENCOUNTER WITH NATIVES AT "THE OFFICER," MUSGRAVE RANGE.
THE FAIRIES' GLEN.
ZOE'S GLEN.
THE STINKING PIT.
ATTACK AT FORT MUELLER.
DRAGGED BY DIAWAY.
ATTACK AT SLADEN WATER.
GILL'S PINNACLE.
VIEW ON THE PETERMANN RANGE.
ATTACK AT THE FARTHEST EAST.
MOUNT OLGA.
CIRCUS WATER.
FIRST VIEW OF THE ALFRED AND MARIE RANGE.
THE LAST EVER SEEN OF GIBSON.
ALONE IN THE DESERT.
JIMMY AT FORT MCKELLAR.
THE HERMIT HILL AND FINNISS SPRING.
WYNBRING ROCK.
LITTLE SALT LAKE.
IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S DESERT.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S SPRING.
ATTACK AT ULARRING.
FORCING A PASSAGE THROUGH THE SCRUBS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
FIRST VIEW OF MOUNT CHURCHMAN.
THE FIRST WHITE MAN MET IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
ARRIVAL AT CULHAM (SAMUEL PHILLIPS'S).
ARRIVAL AT PERTH.
ARRIVAL AT THE TOWN HALL, PERTH.
FAREWELL TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
GLEN ROSS.
GLEN FERDINAND.
MAP OF FIRST EXPEDITION, 1872.
MAP OF SECOND EXPEDITION, 1873-4.
MAP OF AUSTRALIA, SHOWING THE SEVERAL ROUTES.
MAP OF THIRD EXPEDITION, 1875.
MAP OF FOURTH EXPEDITION, 1875.
MAP OF FIFTH EXPEDITION, 1876.
AUTHOR'S NOTES.
The original journals of the field notes, from which the present narrative is compiled, were published, as each expedition ended, as parliamentary papers by the Government of the Colony of South Australia.
The journals of the first two expeditions, formed a small book, which was distributed mostly to the patrons who had subscribed to the fund for my second expedition. The account of the third, found its way into the South Australian "Observer," while the records of the fourth and fifth journeys remained as parliamentary documents, the whole never having appeared together. Thus only fragments of the accounts of my wanderings became known; and though my name as an explorer has been heard of, both in Australia and England, yet very few people even in the Colonies are aware of what I have really done. Therefore it was thought that a work
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