JOURNAL OF EXPEDITIONS 
IN 
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, 
IN 1840-1. 
CHAPTER I. 
THE CAMP PLUNDERED — NIGHT OF HORRORS — PROCEED ON 
TO THE WESTWARD-THE BOYS FOLLOW US — THEY ARE 
LEFT BEHIND — FORCED MARCHES — DESERT COUNTRY — 
BANKSIAS MET WITH — TRACES OF NATIVES TERMINATION 
OF THE CLIFFS — FIND WATER. 
Glancing hastily around the camp I found it 
deserted by the two younger native boys, whilst the 
scattered fragments of our baggage, which I left 
carefully piled under the oilskin, lay thrown about 
in wild disorder, and at once revealed the cause 
of the harrowing scene before me. 
Upon raising the body of my faithful, but ill- 
fated follower, I found that he was beyond all human 
aid ; he had been shot through the left breast with a 
ball, the last convulsions of death were upon him, 
and he expired almost immediately after our arrival. 
The frightful, the appalling truth now burst upon 
me, that I was alone in the desert. He who had 
VOL. II. 
B 
