CHAPTER LXVIII 



THE AUTHOR'S EXPLORATIONS, 1879-80, continued 

 FIRST EXPEDITION 



ANNOTATED REPRINT. GEOLOGICAL WORK ON COAL IN COOK DISTRICT. NOTE ON 

 COOK'S STAY AT SITE OF FUTURE COOKTOWN. THE GEOLOGICAL PARTY'S START 

 FROM COOKTOWN, 15 AUGUST, 1879. UP ENDEAVOUR RIVER. MclvoR AND 

 MORGAN RIVERS. SCRUB LANDS BEING SURVEYED BY A. STARCKE. SANDSTONE 

 TABLELANDS. VOLCANIC Foci AND FLOWS OF BASALT. TROPICAL JUNGLES. 

 NORTH OF MORGAN RIVER. SLATES CAPPED BY HORIZONTAL SANDSTONE. WEST- 

 WARD DOWN STREAM (KNOWN LATER AS THE DIGGINGS CREEK). CAMP 19. WEST- 

 WARD ACROSS STREAM INTO WHICH DIGGINGS CREEK FALLS AND KNOWN LATER AS 

 THE RUNNING STARCKE RIVER. UNSUCCESSFUL PROSPECTING FOR GOLD. WEST- 

 WARD ACROSS RIVER NAMED THE STARCKE. CAMP 20. NATIVES SEEN. NORTHWARD. 

 QUARTZ REEF. NORTH-WESTWARD. HORSE ABANDONED. WESTWARD. NATIVE 

 CAMPS. ACROSS JEANNIE RIVER. CAMP 22 ON HEADS OF JEANNIE RIVER. POOR 

 COUNTRY. SLATE RIDGES BETWEEN SANDSTONE TABLELANDS. SPELLING HORSES. 

 UNSUCCESSFUL PROSPECTING. WESTWARD ACROSS A GAP AND DOWN DESERT CREEK. 

 VERY POOR COUNTRY. WESTWARD. ACROSS DESERT CREEK. CAMP 24. JACK'S 

 DESERT CREEK ERRONEOUSLY MAPPED LATER AS JACK RIVER. FEMALE NATIVES. 

 HORSES FAILING. STARVATION. POISONOUS HERBAGE ? WESTWARD TO NORMANBT 

 RIVER. GRASS AT LAST. SOUTHWARD UP NORMANBY. NATIVE CAMP AND FISHING 

 STATION. THE Two BLACK BOYS ATTACKED BY NATIVES. CAMPS 26 AND 27. 

 MISTAKE A BRANCH FOR THE NORMANBY AND RUN IT UP EASTWARD. CAMP 28. THIS 

 BRANCH AFTERWARDS NAMED, BY EMBLEY, THE JACK RIVER. IT RISES, 36 MILES EAST 

 OF CAMP 28, IN STARCKE GOLDFIELD. ALLUVIAL GOLD AT ITS HEAD. SOUTHWARD 

 TO TRACK BLAZED BY COEN PROSPECTORS. RESOLVE TO FOLLOW IT. STOCK- 

 TAKING. SHORT RATIONING AGREED TO. THE TRACK FOLLOWED W. TO NW. 

 HOOFPRINTS OBLITERATED BY FLOODS. FlVE GlNS. THEIR STRANGE ACTIONS. 

 MALE NATIVE COOKING. ACROSS THE NORMANBY. CAMP 29. ACROSS KENNEDY 

 RIVER. GOOD COUNTRY. NATIVE COMPANIONS AND GEESE. CAMP 30. EMU 

 SHOT AND EATEN. ACROSS NORTH KENNEDY RlVER. ACROSS MULLIGAN'S WARNER 

 RIVER (NOW STATION CREEK) AND KENNEDY'S TRACK. ACROSS MOREHEAD RIVER, 

 DE FACTO (FIRST CROssEd BY MULLIGAN, WHO NAMED IT THE HANN). KING'S 

 " JANE TABLELAND " VISIBLE. CROSS EXTENSIVE PLAINS. SALTWATER CREEK AT 

 KENNEDY'S CROSSING. CAMP 32. NATIVES. ANNIE RIVER. LAST OF THE 

 PLAINS. RISING GROUND. SCHIST AND GRANITE. ENORMOUS TREES. ACROSS 

 HANN'S BALCLUTHA CREEK. VIEW FROM A HILL (Fox's LOOKOUT). ACROSS 

 HANN'S STEWART RIVER. NORTHWARD BY TRACK. SITE OF FUTURE TOWNSHIP 

 OF COEN. CAMP 37. RUINS AT DESERTED DIGGINGS. THE SHANTY. THE 

 PROSPECTORS' LOOPHOLED LOG HUT. RESUME* OF PROSPECTING OPERATIONS AND 

 RUSH. PROSPECTORS NAMED THE RIVER THE COEN, BELIEVING IT TO BE THB 

 " PERA'S " COEN. FLINDERS TOOK TASMAN'S PRINCE INLET FOR THE COEN. TRUB 



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