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GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. 



Recent Australian Exploration.— It was believed early in this 

 century that the wholly unknown interior of Australia was watered by 

 a great river system reaching the sea in the deep bays of the north- 

 west part of the continent. It was to establish this supposed fact that 

 Capt. Sir Philip King sailed along this coast in 1820, entering all the 

 deep inlets to find some great river mouth. One day he sailed twenty- 

 five miles up Hanover Bay, discovering a large river which he named 

 the Prince Regent. The next year he ascended the river for fifty 

 miles. Nearly seventeen years elapsed before another expedition 

 under the command of Sir George Gray, was sent to Hanover Bay to 

 complete the exploration of the river. The natives fell upon the party 

 and wounded its leader so badly that he hastened back to civilization. 

 From that day until last year no further effort was made to solve the 

 problem of the Prince Regent River. 



The latest Petermann's Mitteilungen contains a report of the expe- 

 dition led a year ago by Mr. Joseph Bradshaw, of Melbourne, through 

 this wholly unknown part of Australia. Landing at Wyndham, on 

 Cambridge Gulf, with four white companions and two native- and a 

 supply of provisions carried on pack horses, the little party plunged 

 southwest into the unknown wilderness towards Prince Regent River. 

 They had not gone far before they met natives as wild as any that 

 were ever dismayed by the apparition of white men. The savages 

 living along one river plunged into the*water and swam across the 

 stream upon the approach of the expedition. 



Nearly all the way to the Prince Regent River the party traveled 

 through tall grass One species known as tin black oat gra-s was 

 from nine to twelve feet high, and it was difficult for the little caravan 



