CHAPTER LXXV 

 THE AUTHOR'S EXPLORATIONS, 1879-80, continued 



SECOND EXPEDITION, continued 

 WITH CROSBIE'S PROSPECTING PARTY 



FROM TEMPLE BAY, THROUGH THE "BAD LANDS" OR 

 "WET DESERT," TO THE HEAD OF THE JARDINE RIVER 



IO/TH FEBRUARY, 1880. CAMP 42. COAL IN SEA-CLIFF. WESTWARD. TRACK or A 

 HURRICANE. HEATH AND BOG. HEAVY RAIN. LARGE NEW RIVER NAMED THE 

 MACMILLAN. FLOODED. UP THE RIVER TO SW. CAMP 44, ZIST FEBRUARY. 

 BLOWFLIES AND MAGGOTS. DOUBLE DUGOUT BUILT. LOAD FERRIED ACROSS RIVER. 

 HORSES SWIM. ONE DROWNED. CAMP 45, 23RD FEBRUARY. GROUND COVERED 

 WITH CATERPILLARS. KENNEDY, COSTIGAN, DUNN, LUFF AND JACKEY-]ACKEY 

 PROBABLY CROSSED HERE IN 1848. INUNDABLE COUNTRY NORTH OF RlVER. HASTEN 

 TO GET OUT OF IT. To NNW. ESCARPMENT OF SlR WlLLIAM THOMSON RANGE 

 ON LEFT. BRUSHWOOD, SCRUBS AND PITCHER-PLANT BOGS. CAMP 46, 25 

 FEBRUARY. HEAVY RAIN. FIRE IN AN ANT-HILL. NORTHWARD. ON SANDSTONE 

 SHELF EAST OF AND LOWER THAN SIR WILLIAM THOMSON SHELF. CAMP 47. 

 NORTHWARD. HEATH. GIGANTIC ANT-HILLS. BRIDGING A CREEK. SIR WILLIAM 

 THOMSON RANGE TO WEST. RICHARDSON RANGE (SANDSTONE SHELF) WEST OF 

 SIR WILLIAM THOMSON RANGE. HEATH. SCRUB. HEAVY RAIN. CAMP 48. 

 SCENE OF COSTIGAN, DUNN AND LUFF TRAGEDY (1848). NORTHWARD. HEATH 

 (WITHOUT GRASS), SCRUB AND BOG. LITTLE FOREST COUNTRY. RAIN. CAMP 

 50. " WORST CAMP YET." NATIVE WITH AMERICAN AXE. VIEW OF SHELBVRNE 

 BAY. BLOWN SAND-HILLS 300 FEET ABOVE SEA. HEATH. SCRUB AND BOG. 

 PALMS. No GRASS. HEAVY RAIN. CAMP 51. (]ARDINES' CAMP 74 ?) COARSE 

 GRASS. NORTHWARD. BEARINGS. ON JARDINES' RICHARDSON RANGE. BRANCHES 

 OF JARDINES' McHENRY RIVER. BRIDGE. SCRUB, HEATH AND BRUSHWOOD. 

 COARSE GRASS. CAMP 52. HORSES FAILING. PACK-HORSE, WITH FOOD, LOST 



AND FOUND IN THE DARK. HORSES SCATTERED. THE MARE " OLIVE " LOST. 



NORTHWARD. DENSE SCRUB. No GRASS. HEAD OF JARDINE RIVER. BRIDGE. 

 CAMP 53. HORSES FAILING. POISON PLANT SUSPECTED AND NOTHING TO EAT. 

 HORSES TIED UP. A DILEMMA. FORWARD AND TAKE THE CHANCES OR BACK TO 



CAMP 51 AND BEGIN AGAIN ? PROSPECTING PARTY CO FORWARD. RENDEZVOUS 



BLIGH'S PUDDING-PAN HILL. GEOLOGICAL PARTY co BACK TO CAMP 51, 



ABANDONING Two HoRSES ON THE WAY. 4TH MARCH. 



ANNOTATED REPRINT 

 (SEE MAP B.) 



/ t^EBRUARY 19, 1880. Shoeing horses, etc. The horses 

 r\ did well at this camp [No. 42], as there was plenty of good 

 short GRASS, and few flies. 



I found in the cliff below the camp two COAL SEAMS, 

 each a quarter of an inch in thickness, in grey argillaceous sand- 



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