Many errors which necessarily resulted from the
hurried manner in which they were prepared; it is to this kind
supervision must be ascribed the merit - negative though it may be - of
there not being more errors than there are.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
CHAPTER I.
ORIGIN OF THE EXPEDITION - CONTEMPLATED EXPLORATION TO THE
WESTWARD - MEETING OF THE COLONISTS, AND SUBSCRIPTIONS ENTERED INTO FOR
THAT PURPOSE - NOTES ON THE UNFAVOURABLE NATURE OF THE COUNTRY TO THE
WESTWARD, AND PROPOSAL THAT THE NORTHERN INTERIOR SHOULD BE EXAMINED
INSTEAD - MAKE AN OFFER TO THE GOVERNOR TO CONDUCT SUCH AN
EXPEDITION - CAPTAIN STURT'S LECTURE - INTERVIEW WITH THE
GOVERNOR - ARRANGEMENT OF PLANS - PREPARATION OF OUTFIT - COST OF
EXPEDITION - NAME A DAY FOR DEPARTURE - PUBLIC BREAKFAST AND COMMENCEMENT
OF THE UNDERTAKING
CHAPTER II.
FIRST NIGHT'S ENCAMPMENT WITH PARTY - REFLECTIONS - ARRIVAL AT SHEEP
STATION - RE-ARRANGEMENTS OF LOADS - METHOD OF CARRYING FIRE-ARMS - COMPLETE
THE NUMBER OF THE PARTY - THEIR NAMES - MOVE ONWARDS - VALLEY OF THE
LIGHT - EXTENSIVE PLAINS - HEAD OF THE GILBERT - SCARCITY OF
FIREWOOD - GRASSY WELL-WATERED DISTRICTS - THE HILL AND HUTT
RIVERS - INDICATION OF CHANGE GOING ON IN APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER OF THE
COUNTRY, TRACEABLE IN THE REMAINS OF TIMBER IN THE PLAINS AND IN THE
OPENINGS AMONG SCRUBS - THE BROUGHTON - REEDY WATERCOURSE - CAMPBELL'S
RANGE - COURSE OF THE BROUGHTON
CHAPTER III.
SPRING HILL - AN AGED NATIVE DESERTED BY HIS TRIBE - RICH AND EXTENSIVE
PLAINS - SURPRISE A PARTY OF NATIVES - ROCKY RIVER - CRYSTAL BROOK - FLINDERS
RANGE - THE DEEP SPRING - MYALL PONDS - ROCKY WATER HOLES - DRY
WATERCOURSE - REACH THE DEPOT NEAR MOUNT ARDEN - PREPARE FOR LEAVING THE
PARTY - BLACK SWANS PASS TO THE NORTH - ARRIVAL OF THE WATERWITCH
CHAPTER IV.
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR GETTING UP STORES FROM THE WATERWITCH - LEAVE THE
PARTY - SALT WATERCOURSE - MOUNT EYRE - ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY - LAKE
TORRENS - RETURN TOWARDS THE HILLS - NATIVE FEMALE - SALINE CHARACTER OF THE
COUNTRY - MOUNT DECEPTION - REACH THE EASTERN HILLS - LARGE
WATERCOURSES - WATER HOLE IN A ROCK - GRASSY BUT HILLY COUNTRY - RUNNING
STREAM - ASCEND A RANGE - RETURN HOMEWARDS - DECAY OF TREES IN THE
WATERCOURSES - SHOOT A KANGAROO - ARRIVE AT THE DEPOT - BURY STORES - MAKE
PREPARATIOUS FOR LEAVING - SEUD DESPATCHES TO THE VESSEL
CHAPTER V.
BREAK UP THE ENCAMPMENT - ARRIVE AT DEPOT POOL - GEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF
THE COUNTRY - BAROMETERS OUT OF ORDER - ADVANCE TO RECONNOITRE - ASCEND
TERMINATION HILL - SURPRISE NATIVE WOMEN - THEY ABANDON THEIR
CHILDREN - INEFFECTUAL SEARCH FOR WATER - RETURN TOWARDS MOUNT
DECEPTION - BROKEN CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY - FIND WATER - THE SCOTT - REJOIN
THE PARTY - WATER ALL USED AT THE DEPOT - EMBARRASSING
CIRCUMSTANCES - REMOVE TO THE SCOTT - RECONNOITRE IN ADVANCE - BARREN
COUNTRY - TABLE-TOPPED ELEVATIONS - INDICATIONS OF THE VIOLENT ACTION OF
WATER - MEET NATIVES - REACH LAKE TORRENS - THE WATER SALT - OBLIGED TO
RETURN - ARRIVAL AT DEPOT - HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE NATIVES.
