CHAPTER LXXXIII 



J. T. EMBLEY'S EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, continued 

 II. THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY RIVERS, ETC., 1883-5 



JACK RIVER. CONFUSION AMONG THREE RIVERS so NAMED. NAME ASSIGNED TO RIVER 

 RISING IN STARCKE GOLDFIELD. HANN AND JACK HAD BEEN ON IT LOWER DOWN, 

 WHERE IT FALLS INTO NoRMANBY RlVER. EMBLEY's SURVEYS OF NoRMANBY RlVKR 

 AND TRIBUTARIES. LAURA (OR HEARN) RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES. KENNEDY 

 RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES. DONALD MACKENZIE TOOK UP LAKEFIELD STATION, 

 1881. WOUNDED, 1882, BY BLACKS. SUBSEQUENTLY MURDERED. EMBLEY'S 

 SURVEY OF NORTH KENNEDY RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES. KOOLBURRA STATION 

 TAKEN UP BY HARRY JONES, 1884. J ONES MURDERED BY HIS BLACK BoY. EMBLEY'S 

 SURVEY OF THERRIMBURI CREEK AND STATION CREEK (MULLIGAN'S WARNER RIVER). 

 KENNEDY FOLLOWED THIS CREEK DOWN. EMBLEY'S SURVEY OF HANN AND MORE- 

 HEAD RlVERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES. INUNDABLE COUNTRY. BlZANT, MARRETT 



AND ANNIE RIVERS. ANASTOMOSIS OF MOUTHS OF RIVERS BEFORE FALLING INTO 

 PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAT. 



JACK RIVER 



WHAT may be called " The question of the JACK RIVER," 

 arising, to begin with, out of my "first " (1879) ex- 

 pedition, may be conveniently discussed in connection 

 with Mr. Embley's surveys of the Princess Charlotte 

 Bay group of rivers. (SEE MAP E.) 



During a brief visit to my headquarters at Townsville on the 

 conclusion of my " first " trip in the Cape York Peninsula, in 

 October, 1879, I forwarded to the Mines Department in Brisbane 

 a SKETCH-MAP showing the rivers, creeks, etc., traversed by me 

 between what I had named the Starcke River and the Peach 

 (Archer) River. The map showed also my route and the routes 

 which had been followed by previous explorers, such as Hann and 

 Mulligan. There was no time to write a full report of the first 

 trip before I set out on the second. 1 The report on both trips 

 was written in Townsville in June, 1880, after my return from the 

 second trip, which ended at Somerset on 3rd April, 1880. 



While actually engaged in writing the full report, I received 

 from Brisbane a school map prepared by the Department of 

 Lands for the Department of Education, embodying the new 

 geographical features which I had sketched, and the fact is men- 



1 The sketch-map was never published, and has apparently been lost. Recent 

 searches in the Mines, Lands and Education Departments have failed to discover it. 



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