JOURNEY 



IN SEARCH OF THE KINDUR, 

 IN 1831-2. 



CHAPTER I. 



A Bushranger's story — My plan of exploration— Preparations — Departure 

 from Sydney— A garden— Country between Sydney and the Hawkesbui^— 

 beyond the Hawkesbury— Summit of Warrawolong — Natives of Brisbane 

 Water— The Wollombi— Valley of the Hunter — Fossils of the Hunter- 

 Men employed on the expedition — Equipment — Burning grass — Aborigines 

 and Colonists — " Cambo," a wild native— A Colonist of the right sort — 

 Escape of the Bushranger, "the Barber" — Burning hill of "Wingen" — 

 Approach Liverpool Range— Cross it — A sick tribe — Interior waters — 

 Liverpool Plains — Proposed route — Horses astray— A squatter — Native 

 guide and his gin— Modes of drinking au naturel — Woods on fire— Cross 

 the Turi Range — Arrive on the River Peel — Fishes — Another native guide 

 — Explore the Peel. 



The journey northward in 1831, originated in one of 

 those fabulous tales, which occasionally become current 

 in the colony of New South Wales, respecting the interior 

 country, still unexplored. 



A runaway convict, named George Clarke, alias " the 

 Barber," had, for a length of time, escaped the vigilance ot 

 the police, by disguising himself as an aboriginal native. 

 He had even accustomed himself to the wretched life of that 

 unfortunate race of men; he was deeply scarified like them, 

 and naked and painted black, he went about with a tribe, 

 being usually attended by two aboriginal females, and having 

 acquired some knowledge of their language and customs. 



But this degenerate " white man" was not content with 

 the solitary freedom of the savage life, and his escape from 

 a state of servitude. He had assumed the cloke and colour 



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