165.
MALVACEAE. Hybiscus tridactylites, volume page 85. Sida corrugata, volume 2 page 13. Sida fibulifera, volume 2 page 45.
EUPHORBIACEAE. Gyrostemon pungens, volume 2 page 121.
RHAMNACEAE. Cryptandra tomentosa, volume 2 page 178.
RUTACEAE. Correa leucoclada, volume 2 page 39. Correa cordifolia, volume 2 page 233. Correa glabra, volume 2 page 48. Correa rotundifolia, volume 2 page 219. Eriostemon pungens, volume 2 page 156. Phebalium bilobum, volume 2 page 178. Didymeria aemula, volume 2 page 1 198.
ZYGOPHYLLACEAE. Ropera aurantiaca, volume 2 page 70.
GERANIACEAE. Pelargonium rodneyanum, volume 2 page 144.
LEGUMINOSAE PAPILIONACEAE. Trigonella suavissima, volume 1 page 255. Psoralea patens, volume 2 page 8. Psoralea tenax, volume 2 page 10. Psoralea cinerea, volume 2 page 65. Indigofera acanthocarpa, volume 2 page 17. Daviesia pectinata, volume 2 page 151. Daviesia brevifolia, volume 2 page 201. Pultenaea montana, volume 2 page 178. Pultenaea mollis, volume 2 page 260. Bossiaea rosmarinifolia, volume 2 page 178. Dillwynia hispida, volume 2 page 251.
LEGUMINOSAE CAESALPINIEAE. Cassia teretifolia, volume 1 page 289. Cassia heteroloba, volume 2 page 122.
LEGUMINOSAE MIMOSEAE. Acacia leucophylla, volume 2 page 13. Acacia salicina, volume 2 page 20. Acacia sclerophylla, volume 2 page 139. Acacia aspera, idem. Acacia farinosa, volume 2 page 146. Acacia strigosa, volume 2 page 185. Acacia exudans, volume 2 page 214. Acacia furcifera, volume 2 page 267. Acacia acinacea, volume 2 page 267.
AMARANTHACEAE. Trichinium alopecuroideum, volume 2 page 13. Trichinium parviflorum, idem. Trichinium sessilifolium, idem. Trichinium nobile, volume 2 page 22. Trichinium lanatum, volume 2 page 123.
CHENOPODIACEAE. Atriplex halimoides, volume 1 page 285. Sclerolaena bicornis, volume 2 page 47.
SANTALACEAE. ? Eucarya murrayana, volume 2 page 100. Fusanus acuminatus, volume 2 page 69.
PROTEACEAE. Grevillea aquifolium, volume 2 page 178. Grevillea variabilis, volume 2 page 179. Grevillea alpina, idem.
EPACRIDACEAE. Leucopogon cordifolius, volume 2 page 122. Leucopogon glacialis, volume 2 page 1. Leucopogon rufus, volume 2 page 179. Epacris tomentosa, volume 2 page 177.
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tripetelus australasicus, volume 2 page.
SOLANACEAE. Solanum esuriale, volume 2 page 43. Solanum ferocissimum, volume 2 page.
CICHORACEAE. Picris barbarorum, volume 2 page 149.
AMARYLLIDACEAE. Calostemma candidum, volume 1 page volume 2 page 30. Calostemma carneum, volume 2 page 3.
LILIACEAE. Bulbine suavis, volume 2 page 272.
JUNCACEAE. Xerotes typhina, volume 2 page 41. Xerotes effusa, volume 2 page 101.
GRAMINACEAE. Panicum laevinode, volume 1 page 23. Danthonia lappacea, volume 1 page 3. Danthonia pectinata, volume 2 page 26. Danthonia eriantha, volume 2 page 307. Eleusine marginata, volume 1 page 3.
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JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE KINDUR, IN 1831 AND 1832.
CHAPTER 1
.1.
A Bushranger's story. My plan of exploration. Preparations. Departure from Sydney. A garden. Country between Sydney and the Hawkesbury. Beyond the Hawkesbury. Summit of Warrawolong. Natives of Brisbane Water. The Wollombi. Valley of the Hunter. Fossils of the Hunter. Men employed on the expedition. Equipment. Burning grass. Aborigines and Colonists. Cambo, a wild native. A Colonist of the right sort. Escape of the Bushranger, The Barber. Burning Hill of Wingen. Approach Liverpool Range. Cross it. A sick tribe. Interior waters. Liverpool Plains. Proposed route. Horses astray. A Squatter. Native guide and his gin. Modes of drinking au naturel. Woods on fire. Cross the Turi Range. Arrive on the River Peel. Fishes. Another native guide. Explore the Peel.
BUSHRANGER'S STORY.
The journey northward in 1831 originated in one of those fabulous tales which occasionally become current in the colony of New South Wales, respecting the interior country, still unexplored.
A runaway convict named George Clarke, alias The Barber, had, for a length of time escaped the vigilance of the police by disguising himself as an aboriginal native. He had even accustomed himself to the wretched life of that unfortunate race of men; he was deeply scarified like them and naked and painted black, he went about with a tribe, being usually attended by two aboriginal females, and having acquired some knowledge of their language and customs.
But this degenerate white man was not content with the solitary freedom of the savage life and his escape from a state of servitude. He had assumed the cloak and colour of the savage that he might approach the dwellings of the colonists, and steal with less danger of detection. In conjunction with the simple aborigines whom he misled, and with several other runaway convicts he had organised a system of cattle stealing, which was coming into extensive operation on Liverpool plains when, through the aid of some of the natives, who have in general assisted the detection of bushrangers, he was at length discovered and captured by the police.
After this man was taken into custody, he gave a circumstantial detail of his travels to the north-west along the bank of a large river, named, as he said, the Kindur; by following which in a south-west direction he had twice reached the seashore. He described the tribes inhabiting the banks of the Kindur and gave the names of their chiefs. He said that he had first crossed vast plains named
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