Narrative Of The Overland Expedition Of The Messrs. Jardine, From  Rockhampton To Cape York, Northern Queensland By Frank Jardine And Alexander Jardine









































































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GARRAWAN.

This scrub, one of the numerous family of accacia, which together
with the pandanus, gave the travellers so much - Page 169
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GARRAWAN. This Scrub, One Of The Numerous Family Of Accacia, Which Together With The Pandanus, Gave The Travellers So Much Annoyance On Their Journey, Occupies A Large Extent Of Country About The Richardson Range, From The Batavia To Cape York.

It much resembles, and is probably identical with that which grows in the neighbourhood of Sydney, to the appearance of which, indeed, that part of the Peninsula closely resembles.

FLOCK PIGEON OF THE GULF ('Phaps Histrionica.')

These beautiful pigeons which are alluded to by Leichhardt, are at certain seasons found in immense flocks in the plain country about the Gulf of Carpentaria. Their range is wide, as in 1846 they appeared in flocks of countless multitudes on the Murrimbidgee River, N.S.W., probably driven from their usual regions by drought. They are described and figured in Mr. Gould's great work on the Australian birds.

THE EINASLEIH.

This river was erroneously supposed by its first settlers to be the Lynd of Leichhardt. That such was not the case, was proved by Alexander Jardine, who traced it down for 180 miles from Carpentaria Downs, when he turned back, within about a day's stage of its junction with the Gilbert, fully satisfied that it could not be the Lynd. Since then it has, I believe, been traced into the Gilbert, and thence to the Gulf. Its importance would lead to the supposition that it was the principal branch of the Gilbert. There is an excellent cattle country on the lower part, as described in the text which has probably ere this been occupied by our pioneers.

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