CHAPTER LVIII 

 WILLIAM HANN'S EXPEDITION, continued 



THE RETURN JOURNEY 

 FROM THE DAINTREE RIVER TO FOSSIL BROOK 



ATTEMPT TO REACH COAST ABANDONED. LEAVE CAMP 64. NORMANBY WATERS. 

 FLAT CREEK. CAMP 65. THREATENING NATIVES. WEST NORMANBY RIVER. 

 CAMPS 66 AND 67. RIVER NAMED THE HEARN, NOW THE LAURA. CAMP 68. 

 DOWN THE LAURA. CAMPS 69 AND 70. HOSTILE NATIVES REPELLED. CAMP 71. 

 MOSMAN RIVER. RAILWAY TERMINUS. ANASTOMOSING MOUTHS OF NORMANBY 

 AND KENNEDY RIVERS. LITTLE LAURA RIVER. CAMP 72. ST. GEORGE'S RIVER 

 AND THE LITTLE KENNEDY. CAMPS 73 AND 74. TELEGRAPH LINE. KENNEDY 

 RIVER. KENNEDY BEND. JACK'S STARTING-POINT. THE LITTLE KENNEDY. 

 FAIRLIGHT. CAMP 75. WATERSHED OF GULF AND PACIFIC RIVERS. LANDMARKS 

 ON PALMER RECOGNISED. DESCENT TO PALMER. CAMP 76. MOUNT MULGRAVE. 

 CAMP 77. MITCHELL RIVER. CAMP 78. FINE SOIL. THE ROLLING DOWNS 

 FORMATION AGAIN. ON THE OUTWARD TRACK. FISH. POISONED HORSE. 

 WALSH RIVER. CAMPS 80 AND 81. WALSH TELEGRAPH STATION. UP THE 

 WALSH. CAMP 82. MULDOON CREEK. ARBOUIN COPPER MINE. CAMP 83. 

 TATE RIVER. TATE TELEGRAPH STATION. FISCHERTON MINING CAMP. TIN 

 AND WOLFRAM. MOUNT McDEviTT. GRANITE. PANDANUS CREEK. CAMPS 

 84-86. LYND RIVER. FOSSIL BROOK. CAMP 87. BACK AMONG WHITE MEN. 

 SPRINGFIELD LAMBING STATION. CAMP 88. FOSSILBROOK STATION, THE ORIGINAL 

 STARTING POINT. MOUNT SURPRISE (NOW RAILWAY STATION). CAMP 89. 

 JUNCTION CREEK TELEGRAPH STATION. CAMP 90. THE JOURNEY'S END. 

 SUMMARY. GEOGRAPHICAL AND ECONOMIC GAINS. 



(SEE MAP G.) 



BITTERLY chagrined over their failure to travel south- 

 ward by the east coast, the party left CAMP 64 on 

 i^th October, 1872. RETRACING THEIR STEPS through 

 the scrub, CAMP 60 was passed on the third day (\6th 

 October) and the party struck west, shortly afterwards getting 

 clear of the scrub and crossing a divide of " dry and hard-looking 

 ridges," with a steep ascent. CAMP 65 was on a creek, which 

 Hann correctly surmised to be within the drainage area of the 

 NORMANBY. It was, in fact, FLAT CREEK, which runs westward to 

 join the " WEST NORMANBY." 



Next morning (ijth October), as Stewart and Jerry were hunting 

 for a mare which had strayed, some NATIVES yelled at them from 

 a distance. This day's march was 10 miles down FLAT CREEK 



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