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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He Has Adhered To The Diurnal
Form Of Narrative, For The Sake Of Recording, For The Benefit Of
Future Travellers, The Numbers, Marks, Latitude, Etc., Of Each Camp,
And Endeavoured To Compass By This Composite Method The Value Of A
Work Of Record With The Interest Of A Narrative.
It is also to be regretted that so long a time should have been
allowed to elapse between the end of the journey and the publication
of these pages.
The causes of the delay are - first, the
indisposition on the part of the Brothers to "go into print," their
modesty leading them to imagine they had done nothing worth "writing
about," nor was it until the writer pressed them to allow him to
compile and edit their journals that they consented to make them
public; next, the want of leisure on the part of the compiler, whose
official duties have prevented application to his task, save in
detached and interrupted periods; and last, by the difficulty of
making arrangements for publication at a distance.
If his labor secures to the young explorers the credit and praise
which is the just and due reward of a gallant achievement, and adds a
page of interest to the records of Australian Exploration, his aim
will have been attained, and he will be fully rewarded.
The Hermitage, 'Rockhampton, December', 1866.
INTRODUCTION.
IN presenting the following pages to the Reader, it may not be out of
place to take a retrospect of the progress of Australian Settlement
generally, and particularly in the young northern colony of
Queensland.
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