Journey Across the Western Interior of AustraliaS. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875 - 307 עמודים |
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Adelaide Afghan Alice Springs animals appeared Beltana birds camel-meat camels Captain Sturt Central Mount Stuart Charley Colonel Warburton colony companions continued course creek cross depôt desert desolate direction distance east eastward Egerton Warburton expedition explorer Eyre Eyre's farther feet flour glen grass Gregory ground Halleem halt heat hills hole hope horses interior journey kill lake Lake Torrens land last water leader Lewis look meat morning Mount Mount Hay nearly never night north-west Oakover party Perth Peter Egerton Warburton plain rain range reached rest returned ridges river Roebourne Royal Geographical Society running salt sand sand-hills sand-ridges sandy scarcely scrub seen sent South Australia spinifex started struck Sturt Creek Sunday supply of water Swan River tion to-day tracks travelling traversed trees turned wallaby Western Australia westward whilst yesterday
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עמוד 34 - At a quarter before six, I went to take charge of the horses, having previously seen the overseer and the natives lay down to sleep, at their respective break-winds, ten or twelve yards apart from one another. The arms and provisions, as was our custom, were piled up under an oilskin, between my...
עמוד 39 - I had before been a stranger to. At eight o'clock we were ready to proceed; there remained but to perform the last sad offices of humanity towards him whose career had been cut short in so untimely a manner. This duty was rendered even more than ordinarily painful, by the nature of the country where we happened to have been encamped. One vast unbroken surface of sheet rock extended for miles in every direction and rendered it impossible to make a grave. We were some miles away from the sea-shore,...
עמוד 97 - I have had in travelling through the Continent of Australia for the last twenty-two years, and also from the description that other explorers have given of the different portions they have examined in their journeys, I have no hesitation in saying, that the country that I have discovered on and around the banks of the Adelaide River is more favourable than any other part of the continent for the formation of a new colony. The soil is generally of the richest nature ever formed for the benefit of...
עמוד 133 - But before commencing the journal itself, it may not be amiss to give a brief sketch of the leader's earlier career.
עמוד 39 - ... our animals had to carry. A little bread was then baked, and I endeavoured once more to put the rifle in serviceable condition, as it was the only weapon we should have to depend upon in any dangers that might beset us. Unable in any way to take out the breech, or to extract the ball, I determined to melt it out, and for that purpose took the barrel off the stock, and put the breech in the fire, holding the muzzle in my hand. Whilst thus engaged, the rifle went off, the ball whizzing close past...
עמוד 47 - I now made a smoke on the rock where I was, and hailed the vessel, upon which a boat instantly put off, and in a few moments I had the inexpressible pleasure of being again among civilized beings, and of shaking hands with a fellow-countryman in the person of Captain Rossiter, commanding the French Whaler
עמוד 47 - ... fishing. Watching them steadily we now perceived that they were whale boats, and once more our hearts beat with hope, for I felt sure that they must belong to some vessel whaling in the neighbourhood. We now anxiously scanned the horizon in every direction, and at last were delighted beyond measure to perceive to the westward the masts of a large ship, peeping above a rocky island which had heretofore concealed her from our view. She was apparently about six miles from us, and as far as we could...
עמוד 52 - ... mystery. Still we ran on keeping close to the eastern low land, and just as we found that the course we held no longer appeared to follow the direction of the channel, out burst the moon above the hills in all its glory, shedding a silvery stream of light upon the water, and revealing to our anxious eyes the long looked for river, rippling and swelling, as it forced its way between high rocky ranges.
עמוד 53 - This is indeed a noble river!" burst from several lips at the same moment; "and worthy," continued I, "of being honoured with the name of her most gracious majesty the Queen:" which Captain Wickham fully concurred in, by at once bestowing upon it the name of Victoria River.
עמוד 23 - ... cliffs, we reached the white sand-drifts. Upon turning into these to search for water, we were fortunate enough to strike the very place where the natives had dug little wells ; and thus on the fifth day of our sufferings, we were again blessed with abundance of water, — nor could I help considering it as a special instance of the goodness of Providence, that we had passed the sandy valley in the dark, and had thereby been deterred from descending to examine the sand-hills it contained ; had...