Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound In The Years 1840-1: Sent By The Colonists Of South Australia By Eyre, Edward John
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Sad And Painful Were The Thoughts That Occupied My Mind In Returning To
The Camp.
Hitherto, even when placed in the most difficult or desperate
circumstances I was cheered by hope, but now I
Had no longer even that
frail solace to cling to, there was no mistaking the nature of the
country, by which we were surrounded on every side, and no room for
doubting its impracticability.
Chapter VII.
EXCURSION TO THE NORTH-EAST - TRACE DOWN THE FROME - WATER BECOMES
SALT - PASS BEYOND THE RANGES - COCKATOOS SEEN - HEAVY RAINS - DRY
WATER-COURSES - MOUNT DISTANCE - BRINE SPRINGS - MOUNT HOPELESS - TERMINATION
OF FLINDERS RANGE - LAKE TORRENS TO THE NORTH AND TO THE EAST - ALL FURTHER
ADVANCE HOPELESS - YOUNG EMUS CAUGHT - REJOIN PARTY - MOVE BACK TOWARDS
MOUNT ARDEN - LOSS OF A HORSE - ARRIVE AT THE DEPOT - PLANS FOR THE
FUTURE - TAKE UP STORES - PREPARE FOR LEAVING.
Upon returning to the depot at the Burr, I decided upon making an
excursion to the north-east, to ascertain the actual termination of
Flinders range, and the nature of the prospect beyond it; not to satisfy
myself, for a single glance from the eminence I had recently occupied at
Mount Serle, had for ever set my curiosity at rest on these points, but
in discharge of the duty I owed to the Governor, and the promoters of the
expedition, who could not be expected to be satisfied with a bare
conjecture on a subject which they had sent me practically to
demonstrate, however fairly from circumstances the conclusions might be
deduced at which I had been compelled to arrive.
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