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the name applied to the river by MULLIGAN on his " fifth " trip 

 in 1875, for there is no room for doubt that this is his WARNER 

 RIVER. Moreover, my study of Carron's narrative makes it clear 

 that KENNEDY CAME DOWN what Mulligan afterwards called the 

 WARNER RIVER (Kennedy's camps of 26th, 2/th and 3oth 

 September, 1848), and not down what is now known as the Kennedy 

 River. 



HANN RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 



The Hann River, as it now appears on the map, has a course 

 from south to north. (SEE MAP E.) It was named in 1875 by 

 MULLIGAN, who crossed it in lat. 14 55' S. on his south-easterly 

 course on his " fifth " trip between his Camp 79 on Saltwater 

 Creek and his Camp 81 on the " North Kennedy." At this crossing 

 he described the river, which he named the HANN, as " a large 

 river running to the east of north " with " a great body of water 

 in long reaches." This was about a mile below the junction of 

 the river with what was afterwards (1883) named the MOREHEAD 

 RIVER by Bradford, who made the exploration preliminary to the 

 construction of the Cape York Telegraph line. The Morehead, 

 having proved to be the longer water-course, has given its name to 

 the combined water-course down to the salt water, including the 

 very river on which Mulligan conferred the name of Hann. The 

 river was named after the Hon. Boyd D. Morehead, who was 

 Postmaster-General in 1883. 



The branch coming from the south, to which alone the name 

 of Hann is now applied, heads some 18 miles west of the well-known 

 " bend of the Kennedy." In this region, in the course of his 

 survey of the " Koolburra " blocks, Mr. Embley traversed the 

 upper reaches of the Hann River and its twin branch Wangow Creek 

 for a distance of about 18 miles from south to north (to the junction 

 of the creek and river). For the next 12 miles of its northward 

 course, the river is apparently still unsurveyed, as it is represented 

 in the map by a dotted line. Three miles below the junction of 

 Wangow Creek, however, on 25th September, 1879, I crossed " a 

 creek of the third magnitude, running like a millrace to the north- 

 east, 3 yards wide and 18 inches deep," and remarked, " I 

 have no doubt that this was Mulligan's Hann River." [I had at 

 that time no knowledge of the larger branch subsequently known 

 as the Morehead.] The " Parish " of this region is called " Mill- 

 race." Three miles north of my crossing of 1879, the Cape York 

 Telegraph survey (1886) marks the " HANN RIVER " as crossing the 

 line, and so gives sanction and permanence to the name as applied 

 to this branch. Some 30 miles down the river from the telegraph 

 line, and 19 miles to the north as the crow flies, is Mulligan's 

 crossing of 1875, and here the position of the " Hann " and its 

 junction with the Morehead have been fixed by Mr. Embley in 



