Viz. The Murray, From The Great Bend To The Sea, The Fertile Districts Sixty Miles Northward And Southward Of Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln, Etc.

When the remote parts of the colony have been explored, it will doubtless become necessary to add to it many other species common to New South Wales and Western Australia.

- J. G.

VOLUME II

JOURNAL OF EXPEDITIONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, IN 1840-1.

Chapter I.

THE CAMP PLUNDERED - NIGHT OF HORRORS - PROCEED ON TO THE WESTWARD - THE BOYS FOLLOW US - THEY ARE LEFT BEHIND - FORCED MARCHES - DESERT COUNTRY - BANKSIAS MET WITH - TRACES OF NATIVES - TERMINATION OF THE CLIFFS - FIND WATER.

Glancing hastily around the camp I found it deserted by the two younger native boys, whilst the scattered fragments of our baggage, which I left carefully piled under the oilskin, lay thrown about in wild disorder, and at once revealed the cause of the harrowing scene before me.

Upon raising the body of my faithful, but illfated follower, I found that he was beyond all human aid; he had been shot through the left breast with a ball, the last convulsions of death were upon him, and he expired almost immediately after our arrival. The frightful, the appalling truth now burst upon me, that I was alone in the desert. He who had faithfully served me for many years, who had followed my fortunes in adversity and in prosperity, who had accompanied me in all my wanderings, and whose attachment to me had been his sole inducement to remain with me in this last, and to him alas, fatal journey, was now no more.

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