We Kept Double Sentries, But We Might All Have Gone To Sleep, For
There Was No Symptom Of Treachery.
At daylight we had breakfast; gave the
warriors and gins a few trifling things we could spare, such as
Knives, two
or three blankets - for we hoped to reach the township that night - and,
wonder of wonders to the savages, some matches (nearly all of which they
expended in verifying the fact that they would go off), and then took our
departure from the "bora ground," guided by a native, who showed a very
short way, unknown to Lizzie, by which we arrived at the 'Daylight' early
in the afternoon, to find that the latter had been joined by the 'Black
Prince', the steamer that had brought up the Cleveland Bay party. We
quitted in our little craft for Cardwell, and the Townsville men went south
in their steamer, intending to get some shooting at the Palm Islands before
going home for good. Eleven o'clock that evening saw us at our township,
fully determined to carry out the work thoroughly by searching the
Macalister River, an account of which I hope to give in a future chapter.
AN AUSTRALIAN SEARCH PARTY - V.
BY CHAS H. EDEN.
HOW WE EXPLORED THE MACALISTER RIVER.
The reader who has been good enough to follow me so far, will see that
hitherto our efforts had been unattended with the slightest success, and
that the fate of the missing schooner and her living freight still
remained buried in the deepest mystery.
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