CONTENTS. 
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stances attending the slaughter of two Irish runaways — Bend our 
course towards the Castlereagh — Wallis’s Ponds — Find the 
famished natives feeding on gum — Channel of the Castlereagh — 
Character of the country in its vicinity — Another tribe of natives — 
Amicable intercourse with them — Morriset’s chain of Ponds — 
Again reach the Darling River ninety miles higher up than where 
we first struck upon it. - - - - Page 102 
CHAPTER IV. 
Perplexity — Trait of honesty in the natives — Excursion on horseback 
across the Darling - Forced to return — Desolating effects of the 
drought — Retreat towards the colony — Connection between the 
Macquarie and the Darling — Return up the banks of the Macquarie 
— Starving condition of the natives. - - - Page 140 
CHAPTER V. 
General remarks — Result of the expedition — Previous anticipations — 
Mr. Oxley’s remarks — Character of the Rivers flowing westerly — 
Mr. Cunningham’s remarks — Fall of the Macquarie — Mr. Ox- 
ley’s erroneous conclusions respecting the character of the interior, 
naturally inferred from the state in which he found the country — 
The marsh of the Macquarie merely a marsh of the ordinary 
character — Captain King’s observations — Course of the Darling 
Character of the low interior plain — The convict Barber’s re- 
port of rivers traversing the interior — Surveyor-General Mitchell’s 
Report of his recent expedition. . - . Page 151 
CHAPTER VI. 
Concluding Remarks — Obstacles that attend travelling into the inte- 
rior of Australia — Difficulty of carrying supplies — Importance of 
steady and intelligent subordinates — Danger from the natives — 
