LIBRARY OF 

 AUSTRALIAN TRAVELS, fee. 



PUBLISHED BY T. AND W. BOONE, 



29, NEW BOND STREET. 



In 2 vols. 8vo. with Maps and numerous Plates, 



JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY 



INTO 



CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, 



AND 



OVERLAND FROM ADELAIDE TO KING GEORGE'S SOUND 



In the Years 1840-1 ; 



Sent by the Colonists of South Australia, 



WITH THE SANCTION AND SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT: 



INCLUDING 



An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines, and the state 

 of their relations with Europeans. 



BY EDWARD JOHN EYRE, 



RESIDENT MAGISTRATE, MURRAY RIVER. 



%* The Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society was awarded 

 to Mr. Eyre for the discovery of Lake Torrens, and explorations of far greater 

 extent in Australia than any other traveller, a large portion never having been 

 previously traversed by civilized man. 



u His narrative of what he did and overcame, is more like the stirring stories of 

 Park and Bruce than the tame and bookish difFuseness of modern travellers. 

 Nothing short of a perusal of the volumes can enable our readers to appreciate this 

 book."— Spectator. 



" We might easily extract much more from Mr. Eyre's volumes of interest to the 

 reader, but our limits circumscribe us. We therefore bid farewell to them, with the 

 recommendation to the public, not to overlook a work which, though it records 

 the failure of a great enterprize, is yet full of matter, which proclaims it of value." 



Atlas. 



u Mr. Eyre writes with the plain unaffected earnestness of the best of the old 



travellers." — Examiner. 



u An intensely interesting book." — Tablet. 



11 We must now close these interesting volumes, not, however, without expressing 

 our high approval both of the matter they contain, and of the manner of their com- 

 pilation. We rise from the perusal of them with a feeling similar to that which 

 follows the enjoyment of a pleasant work of fiction."— Critic. 



