The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 | Page 4

tracks--Landsborough's expedition-- Discovery of the Gregory
River--The Herbert--Return to the Albert depôt-- News of Burke and
Wills--Landsborough 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.
Chapter XI
[to 1870]
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--Hostility 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 expedition 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.
Chapter XII
[to 1875]
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 Weld 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 or no result--Great drought--The western
interior.
Chapter XIII
[to 1884]
Further explorations around Lake Eyre--Lewis equipped by Sir Thomas
Elder--He traces the lower course of the Diamantina--Expedition to
Charlotte 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.
Chapter XIV
[to 1888]
The exploration of the Continent by land almost completed--Minor

expeditions--The Macarthur and 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.

PART II MARITIME EXPLORATION

Chapter XV
Maritime Discoveries
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--Lossof 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 landmarks--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.
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 Arnhem 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.
Chapter XVIII
King's Third