The Explorers of Australia and Their Life-workWhitcombe and Tombs, 1908 - 303 halaman Annotation pending. |
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A. C. Gregory aboriginal Adelaide afterwards amongst arrived attempt Babbage bank Barcoo black boy boat Burdekin Burke camels camp Captain Carpentaria coast colony Cooper's Creek course crossed Cunningham Darling depot desert discovered discovery distance eastward Ernest Favenc Ernest Giles excursion exploring expedition Eyre Eyre's Flinders followed Forrest geographical Giles Governor grass Gregory Grey Gulf Gulf of Carpentaria head hills hope horses Hume inland interior journey Kennedy King Lachlan Lake Amadeus Lake Eyre Lake Torrens land leader Leichhardt Macquarie McKinlay miles Mitchell Mount Murray Murrumbidgee named natives night north-west overland Oxley Oxley's party passed pastoral country Perth plains Port provisions pushed Queensland range reached river route salt scrub settlement South Australia South Australian Government South Wales spears spinifex Springs started station Streaky Bay Sturt surveyor Sydney Tietkins tracks traversed tributary trip Victoria Warburton Western Australia westward whilst
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Halaman 102 - Then Mr. Kennedy looked this way very bad (Jacky rolling his eyes). I said to him, ' Don't look far away,' as I thought he would be frightened. I asked him often, ' Are you well now ? ' and he said, ' I don't care for the spear- wound in my leg, Jacky ; but for the other two spear- wounds in my side and back,' and said,
Halaman 104 - ... that night I left him near dark ; I would go through the scrub, and the blacks threw spears at me, a good many, and I went back again into the scrub ; then I went down the creek which runs into Escape River, and I walked along the water in the creek very easy, with my head only above water, to avoid the blacks, and get out of their way ; in this way I went half a mile ; then I got out of the creek, and got clear of them, and walked on all night nearly, and slept in the bush without a fire...
Halaman 101 - Kennedy, and said to him, there is plenty of black fellows now; this was in the middle of the night; Mr. Kennedy told me to get my gun ready ; the blacks did not know where we slept, as we did not make a fire ; we both sat up all night ; after this, daylight came, and I fetched the horses and saddled them ; then we went on a good way up the river, and then we sat down a little while, and we saw three...
Halaman 133 - At the dead hour of night, in the wildest and most inhospitable wastes of Australia, with the fierce wind raging in unison with the scene of violence before me, I was left, with a single native, whose fidelity I could not rely upon...
Halaman 178 - We have been unable to leave the creek. Both camels are dead, and our provisions are done. Mr. Burke and King are down the lower part of the creek. I am about to return to them, when we shall probably come up this way. We are trying to live the best way we can, like the blacks, but find it hard work. Our clothes are going to pieces fast Send provisions and clothes as soon as possible. WJ Wills. The depot party having left, contrary to instructions, has put us in this fix.
Halaman 12 - The nearest distance from the point at which Mr. Oxley left off, to any part of the western coast, is very little short of two thousand miles. If this river, therefore, be already of the size of the Hawkesbury at Windsor, which is not less than two hundred and fifty yards in breadth, and of sufficient depth to float a seventy-four...
Halaman 94 - ... fragments of iron, leather, or other material of the equipment of an exploring party, or of any bones of animals other than those common to Australia. Had an exploring party been destroyed here, there would most likely have been some indications, and it may therefore be inferred that the party had proceeded on its journey. It could not have been a camp of Leichhardt's in...
Halaman 62 - ... the sandbank, and in an incredibly short space of time stood in front of the savage against whom my aim had been directed. Seizing him by the throat, he pushed him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water upon the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one moment pointing to the boat, at another shaking his clenched hand in the faces of the most forward, and stamping with passion on the sand, his voice, that was at first distinct...
Halaman 101 - Now we went into a little bit of a scrub, and I told Mr Kennedy to look behind always; sometimes he would do so, and sometimes he would not look behind to look out for the blacks. Then a good many blackfellows came behind in the scrub, and threw plenty of spears, and hit Mr Kennedy in the back first.
Halaman 134 - ... escape from the melancholy scene, accompanied by Wylie, under the influence of feelings which neither time nor circumstances will ever obliterate. Though years have now passed away since the enactment of this tragedy, the dreadful horrors of that time and scene, are recalled before me with frightful vividness, and make me shudder even now, when I think of them. A life time was crowded into those few short hours, and death alone may blot out the impressions they produced.