Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872 to 1874Brief contacts with natives on expeditions; Musgrave Ranges, Mann Range, MacDonnell Ranges, Glen Edith, Lake Amadeus, Mount Destruction, Mount Olga. |
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... running , so it of course did not become frozen . I determined to rest here for a couple of days , as I had many matters to attend to , one of which was to unshoe all my horses , as having now reached a soft country , I would put the ...
... running , so it of course did not become frozen . I determined to rest here for a couple of days , as I had many matters to attend to , one of which was to unshoe all my horses , as having now reached a soft country , I would put the ...
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... running under a ridge of high sandhills ; its course from this point appeared to incline a good deal to the north . The horses being very heavily packed , and the porcupine - grass having distressed them a good deal , we followed along ...
... running under a ridge of high sandhills ; its course from this point appeared to incline a good deal to the north . The horses being very heavily packed , and the porcupine - grass having distressed them a good deal , we followed along ...
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... runs under one bank , some- times the opposite and sometimes in the middle ; a horse may walk upon apparently firm ... running east and west ; and with the glasses I could see the river bearing up for them . I changed my course for a ...
... runs under one bank , some- times the opposite and sometimes in the middle ; a horse may walk upon apparently firm ... running east and west ; and with the glasses I could see the river bearing up for them . I changed my course for a ...
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... running N. and S .; we travelled seventeen miles to - day . I found a fine reach of water here , and the creek has a stony bed so to - night at least , our anxiety as regards the horses bogging is at an end ; the stream running over its ...
... running N. and S .; we travelled seventeen miles to - day . I found a fine reach of water here , and the creek has a stony bed so to - night at least , our anxiety as regards the horses bogging is at an end ; the stream running over its ...
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... running them down , and as I had no desire to do this , I left them . We crossed the creek here on its stony bed , and travelled on a north - west course towards a moun- tain in the ranges , which traversed the horizon in that direction ...
... running them down , and as I had no desire to do this , I left them . We crossed the creek here on its stony bed , and travelled on a north - west course towards a moun- tain in the ranges , which traversed the horizon in that direction ...
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Alberga and Mount amongst appeared Baron von Mueller Barrow's Range basin camp Carmichael casuarinas channel cloudy cool course cypress-pines December.-Thermometer last night depôt direction distance east encamped eucalypts exceedingly expedition February.-Thermometer last night feet fell foot Fragm Friday further Glen of Palms gorge Gosse's grass gully hills hopes horizon horses January.-Thermometer last night Lake Amadeus Lake Eyre last night 80 late little creek MacDonnell's Range mallee March.-Thermometer last night Monday morning 68 Mount Olga mountain mulga Musgrave Range natives nearly north-west o'clock passed Prodr quantity rain Rawlinson's Range reached region returned ridges River Finke rocks rocky round running sandhills Saturday scrub scrubby seemed shade soon spot started stony sultry Sunday supply tank tarn thermometer stood three miles Thursday Tietkens timber to-day tracks travelled triodia Tuesday valley wallaby warm waterhole Wednesday
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Page 191 - He had left me a little over two gallons of water in one keg, and it may be imagined how glad I was to get a drink. I could have drunk my whole supply in half an hour, but was compelled to economy, for I could not tell how many days would elapse before assistance could come : it could not be less than five, it might be many more. After quenching my thirst a little I felt ravenously hungry, and on searching among the bags, all the food I could find was eleven sticks of dirty, sandy, smoked horse,...
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Page 192 - I almost gave up the thought of walking any farther, for the exertion in this dreadful region, where the triodia was almost as high as myself, and as thick as it could grow, was quite overpowering, and being starved, I felt quite light-headed. After sitting down, on every occasion when I tried to get up again, my head would swim round, and I would fall down oblivious for some time. Being in a chronic state of burning thirst, my general plight was dreadful in the extreme. A bare and level sandy waste...
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