Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manne eBook

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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manne eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 871 pages of information about Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1.

Chapter xviii
Go back with A native—­spear sting-rays—­recover the baggage—­cold
weather—­overseer reconnoitres the cliffs—­unfavourable
report—­difference of opinion as to best plans for the future—­kill A
horse for food—­injurious effects from meat diet—­native boys become
disaffected—­they steal provisions—­native boys desert the party—­they
return almost starved—­party proceed onwards to the westward—­cliffs of
the bight—­country behind them—­threatening weather—­murder of the
overseer

Appendix.

Description of some new Australian animals, by J. E. Gray, Esq.  F.R.S. 
Catalogue of reptiles and fish, found at king George’s sound, by Deputy
  assistant commissary—­general NeillThe reptiles named and arranged by
  J. E. Gray, Esq., And the fish by Dr. Richardson description and figures
  of four new species of Australian insects, by Adam white, Esq.  M.E.S. 
Description of two new INVERTEBRATED animals from Australia, by J. E.
  Gray, Esq.  F.R.S. 
Description of some new Australian LEPIDOPTEROUS insects, by Edward
  Doubleday, Esq.  F.R.S. etc
list of birds known to inhabit southern Australia, by John Gould,
  Esq.  F.R.S.

LIST OF PLATES—­VOLUME I.

Tenberry, with Wife and Child, drawn by G. Hamilton
Departure of the Expedition drawn by G. Hamilton
Opossum-hunting at Gawler Plains
Native Graves
Wylie (J.  Neil)
Plate I.—­New Toads and Frogs
Plate ii.—­New Frogs and new Bat
Plate iii.—­New Insects
Plate IV.—­New Cray-fish
Plate V.—­New Shells
Plate vi.—­New Butterflies

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

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

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