CHAPTER LXV 



MULLIGAN'S FIFTH EXPEDITION, 1875, continued 

 JUNCTION CREEK TO THE COLEMAN RIVER AND COOKTOWN 



SIXTH EXPEDITION AND DISCOVERY OF 

 HODGKINSON GOLDFIELD 



DELAY AT MOUNT SURPRISE. POISON PLANT. MEET HANN. TELEGRAPH LINE, 

 JUNCTION CREEK TO PALMER, COMMENCED. START FROM MOUNT SURPRISE. LEAVE 

 PALMER ROAD. TATE RIVER. GOLD AND TIN. TIN IN BLACK-GIN CREEK. 

 PROSPECTING HANN'S PINT POT CREEK. TATE RIVER. NATIVES. JUNCTION OF 

 TATE AND LYND. LINKING WITH LEICHHARDT AND HANN. SANDSTONE TABLE- 

 LAND. EXCURSION TO WEST. LYND RIVER. CANNIBALISM. DOWN THE LYND. 

 ON SANDSTONE TABLELAND. JUNCTION OF LYND AND MITCHELL RIVERS. 

 NATIVES. HANN'S AND LEICHHARDT'S CAMPS. ALLIGATOR SHOOTING. POOR 

 FLAT LAND BETWEEN MITCHELL AND PALMER. PALMER RIVER. CAMP 46. 

 EASTWARD TO PALMERVILLE. REFITTING AND PROVISIONING. Two MEMBERS 

 DETACHED FROM PARTY TO SEARCH FOR REEFS UP PALMER VALLEY. START FOR 

 COLEMAN RIVER. MACMILLAN'S OLD ROAD. PHILP GOLDFIELD. RELATION OF 

 PHILP AND ALICE RIVERS. PHILP RIVER. FAHEY CREEK. CROSBIE CREEK. 

 FEATURELESS COUNTRY BETWEEN CROSBIE CREEK AND COLEMAN RIVER. ANABRANCH 

 OF THE COLEMAN. UP THE COLEMAN. MOUTH OF KING RIVER. NATIVES. 

 CROSS DISMAL CREEK. Low HILLS. MANY QUARTZ REEFS, BUT LITTLE GOLD. 

 TRACKS OF WHITE MEN. COLEMAN RIVER. TRACKS OF " THE PRINCESS CHAR- 

 LOTTE BAY PARTY." LEAVE THE COLEMAN. CROSS KING RIVER. PROMISING 

 COUNTRY FOR GOLD. A DISAPPOINTMENT. HANN'S MOUNT NEWBERY SIGHTED. 

 IN THE FUTURE HAMILTON GOLDFIELD, BUT NO GOLD. DOWN A VALLEY WEST 

 OF JACK'S MACDONALD VALLEY. FINE PASTORAL COUNTRY. JARDINES' HOLROYD 

 RIVER. MULLIGAN NAMES IT THE LUKIN RIVER. ALLUVIAL AND REEF GOLD 

 JUDGED NOT TO BE PAYABLE. STRIKE SoUTH-EAST FOR CoOKTOWN. MOUNT 

 NEWBERY AGAIN SIGHTED. KING RIVER CROSSED. ITS CROSSINGS BY HANN AND 

 JACK. MOUNT WALSH. OUT OF THE HAMILTON GOLDFIELD. A HORRIFIED 

 NATIVE. WATERSHED OF PENINSULA CROSSED. SITE OF FUTURE TELEGRAPH LINE. 

 THE COASTAL PLAIN SOUTH OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY. SALTWATER CREEK. 

 KENNEDY'S AND JACK'S CROSSINGS. NATIVES. TRACKS OF WHITE MEN. HANN 

 RIVER. WARNER CREEK (= STATION CREEK). KENNEDY'S ROUTE. THERRIMBURI 

 CREEK (MISNAMED NORTH KENNEDY RIVER). KENNEDY RIVER NAMED IN HONOUR 

 OF KENNEDY, BUT NOT ON HIS ROUTE. LAURA RIVER. NORMANBY RIVER. HANN'S 

 CAMP 41. REACH COOKTOWN 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1875. A SIXTH EXPEDITION. 

 PAYABLE GOLD REPORTED ON THE HODGKINSON RIVER. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



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N his arrival at JUNCTION CREEK on i6th June, 1875, 

 Mulligan telegraphed to the Hon. H. E. King, Minister 

 for Works and Mines : 



" Left Cooktown on 2gth April. Arrived here all well to-day. Crossed over 

 the heads of the Palmer and St. George on to the Mitchell between the junction 



