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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Notwithstanding The Care We Had Taken Of The Horses, And
The Little Work We Had Given Them, They Got Fagged In Going Through The
Scrub, And I Was Obliged To Halt The Dray At The Rocky Well In The
Plains, Five Miles Short Of The Depot.
I myself went on with the boy to
the camp at Point Fowler, where I found the party feasting upon emus,
four of which they had shot during my absence.
December 16. - About ten to-day the dray and men arrived safely at the
depot, being the last detachment of the party engaged in this most
unfortunate expedition, which had occupied so much time and caused such
severe and fatal loss, independently of its not accomplishing the object
for which it was undertaken. In the evening I sent Mr. Scott to see if
the cutter had returned, and upon his coming back he reported that she
had just arrived, but that he had not been able to communicate with her.
Chapter XIII.
FUTURE PLANS - REDUCE THE NUMBER OF THE PARTY - SEND THE CUTTER TO
ADELAIDE - REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR - MONOTONOUS LIFE AT CAMP - REMOVE TO
ANOTHER LOCALITY - GEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY - FLINT FOUND - AGAIN
ATTEMPT TO REACH THE HEAD OF THE BIGHT - REACH THE SAND HILLS, AND BURY
FLOUR - FRIENDLY NATIVES - EXHAUSTED STATE OF THE HORSES - GET THE DRAY TO
THE PLAIN - BURY WATER - SEND BACK DRAY - PROCEED WITH
PACK-HORSE - OPPRESSIVE HEAT - SEND BACK PACK-HORSE - REACH THE HEAD OF THE
BIGHT - SURPRISE SOME NATIVES - THEIR KIND BEHAVIOUR - YEER-KUMBAN
KAUEE - THEIR ACCOUNT OF THE INTERIOR.
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