Murray River at Moorunde
Plate vi.  Miscellaneous Native Articles
1.  Head of war spear of the North Coast, barbed for 3 feet, total length
9 1/2 feet.
2.  Head of fish spear of the North Coast, barbed for 18 inches, total
length 8 3/4 feet.
2.  Head of spear of the North Coast, barbed for 18 inches, total length
8 3/4 feet.
4.  Head of war spear of the North Coast, with head of quartz, 6 inches,
total length 9 1/2 feet.
5.  Head of war spear of the North Coast, with head of slate, 6 inches,
total length 9 1/2 feet.
6.  Two handed sword of hard wood, North Coast, 3 1/2 feet.
7.  Throwing stick of North Coast, 3 feet 1 inch.
8.  Throwing stick of North Coast, very pliant, 3-16ths of an inch only
thick, 3 feet 6 inches.
9.  Broad short throwing stick, 2 feet 2 inches.
10.  An ornament of feathers for the neck.
11.  Five Kangaroo teeth in a bunch, worn round the neck.
12.  A net waistband or belt, from Murray River, 8 feet long 6 inches
wide.
13.  Plume of feathers tied to thin wand, and stuck in the hair at
dances—­New South Wales.
14.  War club.
15.  War club.
16.  Bag of close net work.
17.  Band for forehead of Swan’s down.
18.  Root end of a kind of grass, used as pins for pegging out skins.
19.  Sorcerer’s stick.
20.  Sorcerer’s stick.

VOLUME II

JOURNAL OF EXPEDITIONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, IN 1840-1.

Chapter I.

THE CAMP PLUNDERED—­NIGHT OF HORRORS—­PROCEED ON TO THE WESTWARD—­THE BOYS FOLLOW US—­THEY ARE LEFT BEHIND—­FORCED MARCHES—­DESERT COUNTRY—­BANKSIAS MET WITH—­TRACES OF NATIVES—­TERMINATION OF THE CLIFFS—­FIND WATER.

Glancing hastily around the camp I found it deserted by the two younger native boys, whilst the scattered fragments of our baggage, which I left carefully piled under the oilskin, lay thrown about in wild disorder, and at once revealed the cause of the harrowing scene before me.

Upon raising the body of my faithful, but illfated follower, I found that he was beyond all human aid; he had been shot through the left breast with a ball, the last convulsions of death were upon him, and he expired almost immediately after our arrival.  The frightful, the appalling truth now burst upon me, that I was alone in the desert.  He who had faithfully served me for many years, who had followed my fortunes in adversity and in prosperity, who had accompanied me in all my wanderings, and whose attachment to me had been his sole inducement to remain with me in this last, and to him alas, fatal journey, was now no more.  For an instant, I was almost tempted to wish that it had been my own fate instead of his.  The horrors of my situation glared upon me in such startling reality, as for an instant almost to paralyse the mind.  At the dead hour of night, in the wildest