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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http : //books . google . com/ JOURNEY ACROSS THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA. BY COLONEL PETER EGERTON WARBURTON, C.M.(i. WITH AW INTRODUCTION AND ADDITIONS, BY CHARLES II. EDEN, ESQ. AUTHOR 0¥ "MY WIFE AND I IN QUEENSLAND.' EDITED BY H. W. BATES, ESQ. ASSIST A XT SECRETARY IIP THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL *OC|lTt WITH ILLUSTRATIONS A XI) A MA J'. THE WARBURTON BKKTI.K {S/it/modern ftturrayi). Eontron: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, & SEARLE, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. 1875. [All right* reserved.] /oi ir»—-V—*~* * - "7 - S - PREFACE. IT THE EPITOE. TBE form in which the present account of Colonel Warburton's remarkable journey across the Western Interior of Australia is given to the public, requires a few words of explanation. The gallant leader of the expedition, on his return to Adelaide, enfeebled by the privations and ^ sufferings of his long journey, had little inclination * to pen a full narrative of the expedition. IIo \j fulfilled the duty of rendering a Report of his ° proceedings, in the form of extracts from his V Journal, to Messrs Elder and Hughes, the e>ontlo- , men who bore the expenses of tho undertaking; "*' but he had neither health nor desiro to undergo the further literary labour necessary to elaborate a complete narrative for general readers. Tho vi PREFACE. promoters of the expedition, however, justly thought that some account of the first successful attempt to traverse this vast unknown region—all efforts to penetrate which had previously been baffled—was deserving of permanent record, and would be likely to interest a large section of the reading public; they transmitted, therefore, the original Report to England for publication, with a recommendation that it should be accompanied by a narrative of the more important of the many previous explorations in the same region. Colonel Warburton himself subsequently, in November last, visited his native land, after an absence of more than forty years, and consented to this arrangement, selecting his relative, Mr. Charles H. Eden, who—from his knowledge of Australia, ob­ tained during a residence of some years in Queens­ land—was well qualified for such a task, to write the required account of previous explorations, which account forms the Introduction to the pre­ sent volume. During his brief stay in London, of less than six weeks, Colonel Warburton was able to add but little to the information supplied by his Report; his failing eyesight, caused by the fearful sufferings of his journey, rendering PREFACE. vii him incapable of writing. Verbally, however, he supplied matter of considerable interest and importance, which Mr. Eden has either interwoven into his introductory chapters, or interpolated, within parentheses, in the Journal. Some few amplifications of Colonel Warburton's own state­ ments or descriptions, supplied in the same way, have been incorporated, at the discretion of the Editor, in the text of the Journal itself. The majority of readers will, no doubt, see reason for satisfaction in the circumstance that the efforts and struggles of the gallant party, with all their hopes and fears when a lingering death seemed their inevitable fate, are here given exactly as jotted down by the leader, whilst the agony was fresh in his mind. To such the evident fidelity and absence of exaggeration of Colonel Warburton's style will be an additional charm. To Mr. Eden's very interesting summary of previous explorations, it needs only to be added that the numerous efforts on the part of the Government and Colonists of Western Aus­ tralia to penetrate from their side the desert interior, have at length been crowned with success Viii PREFACE. in the brilliant exploit of Mr. John Forrest, who, starting at about the time of the completion of Colonel Warburton's traverse, struck across the terra incognita at a part where it is much wider than where crossed by Warburton, and arrived safely at the Peake Station, on the line of the overland telegraph. The spirit of Geographical Exploration in Western Australia, which in former years had given rise to the remarkable expeditions of Roe, Lefroy, and Hunt, has of lata,years been greatly encouraged by Governor Weld, under whom the two Forrests, John and Alexander, have successively pushed their investigation farther and farther into the waste of salt-swamps, which seems to occupy the greater part of the interior due east from the Swan River settlements. In 1870 Mr. John Forrest had repeated Mr. Eyre's feat of journeying completely round the Great Bight (from West to East), happily experiencing scarcely any of the hardships which were nearly proving fatal to the whole of the party of the earlier explorer. The relatives of Colonel Warburton, to whom, on his return to Australia, the final arrangements of the present work were confided, desire to ex- PBEPACE. IX press their especial thanks to Professor Owen, Dr. Hooker, Mr. J. Gould, and Dr. Henry Trimen (of the Botanical Department of the British Museum), for the assistance they have rendered in determining the species of animals and plants mentioned in the Journal, and in furnishing notes in elucidation of various points. The illustrations are by Mr. Ulick J. Burke. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE PORTRAIT OP COLONEL EQERTON WARBURTON Frontispiece THE WARBURTON BEETLE {Stigmodera Murrayi) Title-page THE START 140 TWENTY-FOURTH OP MAY . .165 THE DUST STORM 194 FACING THE ENEMY 231 MARCH DURING AN ECLIPSE 248 WORN OUT BY STARVATION 258 THE LAST CAMEL 284 THE RELIEF 290 MAP OF COLONEL WARBURTON'S ROUTE. INTRODUCTION. BY CHABLES H. EDEN. CHAPTER I. Western Interior of Australia.—Settlement of Swan River.— Foundation of the colony of South Australia.—Various opinions regarding the interior. IN the slight sketch of Australian Exploration that I propose to lay before the reader as an introduc­ tion to the Journal of Colonel Egerton Warbur- ton, I shall confine myself entirely to the western half of the Continent, and to the many attempts that have been made by enterprising men to penetrate the mysteries of the interior of that portion. Though Western Australia occupies a larger space upon the map than any of its sister colonies, an observer cannot fail to be struck, by the vast extent of unoccupied—even unknown— country that it contains, and this desolation is the more remarkable when it is considered that within B 2 INTRODUCTION. the boundary of this colony are included the earliest discovered portions of the Continent. In 1829 Captain Stirling was appointed Lieu­ tenant-Governor of the new settlement on the Swan River, and on his arrival in the month of August of that year this officer found a number of anxious immigrants camped on the banks of the Swan and Canning rivers, with no better shelter against the inclemency of the Australian winter than the tents they had brought with them from England.
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