A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of CarpentariaWilliam John Wills, William Wills Richard Bentley, 1863 - 396 páginas |
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Adelaide appearance Australia Ballaarat banks Beckler believe blacks box trees Brahe Burke and King Burke's camels camp colony Cooper's Creek course crossed Darling DEAR MOTHER Deniliquin depôt despatch direction distance earthy plains Exploration Committee Eyre's Creek feed feel FIELD BOOK fish five Flagstaff Observatory flats grass ground Gulf of Carpentaria gunyah Hodgkinson honour hope horses journal journey Landells leader leaving letter M'Kinlay Melbourne Menindie ment miles months morning Mount Hopeless nardoo natives nearly night o'clock O'Hara Burke Observatory party passed portion pounds Professor Neumayer rain reached remained river Robert O'Hara Burke Roderick Murchison Royal salt bush sand ridges sandy scarcely sent Sir William Stawell son's soon started stony Swan Hill things timber tion took Totnes track Victoria watercourses waterhole William William Brahe Wills's Wright
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Página 32 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 311 - ... us, gathering nardoo and living the best way we could. Mr. Burke requested Mr. Wills to go up the creek as far as the depot, and to place a note in the plant there, stating that we were then living on the creek, the former note having stated that we were on our road to South Australia. He also was to bury there the fieldbooks of the journey to the Gulf.
Página 292 - We have been unable to leave the creek. Both camels are dead, and our provisions are done. Mr. Burke and King are down the lower part of the creek. I am about to return to them, when we shall probably come up this way. We are trying to live the best way we can, like the blacks, but find it hard work. Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions and clothes as soon as possible. w The depot party having left, contrary to instructions, has put us in this fix. I have deposited some of my journals...
Página 318 - ... to eat them. The same day one of the women to whom I had given part of a crow, came and gave me a ball of nardoo, saying that she would give me more only she had such a sore arm that she was unable to pound. She showed me a sore on her arm, and the thought struck me that I would boil some water in the billy and wash her arm with a sponge. During the operation the whole tribe sat round and were muttering one to another. Her husband sat down by her side and she was crying all the time. After I...
Página 309 - We had not gone far before we came on a flat, where I saw a plant growing which I took to be clover, and on looking closer, saw the seed, and called out that I had found the nardoo. They were very glad when I found it. We travelled...
Página 318 - ... me until such time as the crows were cooked, when they assisted me to eat them. The same day one of the women, to whom I had given part of a crow, came and gave me a ball of nardoo, saying that she would give me more only she had such a sore arm that she was unable to pound. She showed me a sore on her arm, and the thought struck me that I would boil some water in the billy and wash her arm with a sponge. During the operation, the whole tribe sat round and were muttering one to another. Her husband...
Página 236 - ... so that each of us found it a most trying task only to walk a few yards. Such a leg-bound feeling I never before experienced, and hope I never shall again. The exertion required to get up a slight piece of rising ground, even without any load, induces an indescribable sensation of pain and helplessness, and the general lassitude makes one unfit for anything. Poor Gray must have suffered very much, many times when we thought him shamming.
Página 215 - Just after we stopped, the black got up to stretch bis limbs, and after a few seconds looked in our direction. It was very amusing to see the way in which he stared, standing for some time as if he thought he must be dreaming, and then, having signalled to the others, they dropped on their haunches, and shuffled off in the quietest manner possible. Near their fire was a fine hut, the best I have ever seen...
Página 202 - ... and the value of the discovery. Although it was so early in the day, and we were anxious to make a good march, yet we camped here, as it seemed to be almost a sin to leave such good quarters. The bed of the creek is loose sand, through which the water freely permeates ; it is, however, sufficiently coarse not to be boggy, and animals can approach the water without any difficulty. Thursday, January 10.