CHAPTER LXX 

 THE AUTHOR'S EXPLORATIONS, 1879-90, continued 



SECOND EXPEDITION, continued 

 WITH CROSBIE'S PROSPECTING PARTY 



ACROSS THE McILWRAITH RANGE FROM THE ARCHER RIVER 

 TO THE NISBET RIVER 



CAMP 13. A " VIEW HILL." BEARINGS. GOLD IN PEACH (ARCHER) RIVER AND 

 ATTACK CREEK. UP PEACH RIVER TO S.E. GREAT SHELL-MOUNDS. NATIVES 

 SURPRISED. TRACKS OF LAING'S PARTY. CAMP 14. EASTWARD ACROSS PEACH 

 RIVER AND SOUTH OF BIRTHDAY MOUNT TO IRVINE CREEK. S. E. LAING'S TRACKS 

 AGAIN. BEETLE CREEK. CHRISTMAS CREEK. CAMP 15. QUARTZ REEFS. CAMP 

 39 OF FIRST EXPEDITION REVISITED. GOLD IN CHRISTMAS CREEK. NATIVES' 

 SIGNAL FIRES. EASTWARD UP PEACH RIVER. DENSE SCRUB. CAMP 16. GOLD 

 IN THE RIVER. ON FOOT UP THE RIVER. GREAT WATERFALL. ON DIVIDE OF 

 PENINSULA. THE RANGE NAMED THE MC!LWRAITH. WHOLE PARTY ON SUMMIT 

 OF RANGE. CAMP 17. PROMISING REEFS. ATTEMPTS TO REACH HEAD OF PEACH. 

 DENSE SCRUB WITH PINES. CAMP I7A. POOR GOLD PROSPECTS IN THE RIVER. 

 HEAVY RAIN, 3OTH DECEMBER. BEGINNING OF WET SEASON. BACK TO CAMP 17. 

 HAMIL AND LOVE, LEFT IN CAMP, HAD BEEN THREATENED BY NATIVES, WHOM THEY 

 DROVE OFF. THE NATIVES RETURN. DEFIANCE AND TAUNTS. NATIVES DISPERSED 

 BY LONG SHOT. Too WET TO MOVE. IST JANUARY, 1880. NORTHWARD ALONG 

 WESTERN EDGE OF MC!LWRAITH RANGE. CAMP 1 8. PLAGUE OF BEETLES. BEETLE 

 CREEK. WILSON CREEK. CAMP 19. NATIVES. NATIVE CORPSES IN TREE, 

 THREADING A WAY BETWEEN SCRUBS. AMBUSHED. LOVE'S MOUNT AND A 

 PACK-HORSE SPEARED BY INVISIBLE ENEMY. NARROW ESCAPES. CAMP 20. ACROSS 

 ATTACK CREEK. NORTHWARD. ACROSS SKAE CREEK. WESTWARD DOWN ATTACK 

 CREEK. HEAVY RAIN. NORTHWARD BY FOOT OF RANGE. CAMP 21. \VEEPING 

 SKIES. FALLOCH CREEK. BEN LOMOND. STINGING TREE. GEIKIE CREEK. ITS 

 JUNCTION WITH PEACH RIVER. EASTWARD UP THE FALLOCH. A " VIEW HILL." 

 MACROSSAN RANGE DEFINED AND NAMED. CAMP 22. EASTWARD ACROSS WATER- 

 SHED OF PENINSULA. NATIVES MOB THE PROSPECTORS, WHO DRIVE THEM OFF. 

 JACK'S MOUNT (SWALLOW) SPEARED FROM BEHIND. SWALLOW CREEK. CAMP 23. 

 SWALLOW DIES. KENNEDY'S TRACK. 



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CEMBER 22. In the morning I went to an eminence 

 (" VIEW HILL ") on the right bank of the river, I mile 

 from Camp 13. (Quartzite on top striking north- 

 north-east, ferruginous mica-schist on slopes and coarse 

 granite at base.) [SEE MAP C.] After Charlie had cleared the 



1 A number of heights are marked " View Hill" on the maps herewith. These 

 are places from which observations were made or bearings were taken, and are not 

 necessarily hills of any importance. " View Hill " is not a proper name. R. L. J. 



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