Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions Into and Through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876, Volume 1S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited, 1889 - Australia |
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amongst ants appeared Augustus Gregory Baron von Mueller basin called Carmichael casuarina channel Charlotte Waters course creek Diaway direction discovered distance drink east encamped eucalyptus existed expedition explorers Eyre farther feet fell Finke Flinders foot Gibson and Jimmy glen gorge grass gully gum-trees hills hole horses late Leichhardt Search Expedition looked mallee morning Mount Olga mountain Mueller mulga named natives nearly night north-west pack passed Port Augusta quandong Queensland rain range Rawlinson Range reached region ridges river Robinson rocks rocky rode round running sand sandhills scrubby scrubs seemed seen shade Shoeing Camp soon South Australia spears spinifex spot stones stony Sturt summit tank tarn tea-tree telegraph thermometer three miles Tietkens timber to-day travelled tree triodia valley walked wallaby water-hole watercourse western Western Australia wretched
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Page 32 - TOO late I stayed, forgive the crime, — Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers!
Page 238 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Page 166 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 264 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Page 167 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Page 11 - There it stands, a vast monument of the geological periods that must have elapsed since the mountain ridge, of which it was formerly a part, was washed by the action of old Ocean's waves into mere sandhills at its feet. The stone is so friable that names can be cut in it to almost any depth with a pocket-knife : so loose, indeed, is it, that one almost feels alarmed lest it should fall while he is scratching at its base. In a small orifice or chamber of the pillar I discovered an opossum asleep,...
Page 157 - In the Spring, when the wattle gold trembles Twixt shadow and shine, When each dew-laden air draught resembles A long draught of wine; When the sky-line's blue burnish'd resistance Makes deeper the dreamiest distance, Some song in all hearts hath existence, — Such songs have been mine.
Page 184 - On me, perchance, the eternal obloquy of the execution of God's doom may rest, for being the first to lead the way, with prying eye and trespassing foot, into regions so fair and so remote; but being guiltless in act or intention to shed the blood of any human being, I must accept it without a sigh.
Page 249 - EHEU FUGACES. WHAT Horace says is, Eheu fugaces Anni labuntur, Postume, Postume ! Years glide away, and are lost to me, lost to me ! Now, when the folks in the dance sport their merry toes, Taglionis and Ellslers, Duvernays and Ceritos, Sighing I murmur,
Page 183 - ... that of their blood. But the great Designer of the universe, in the long past periods of creation, permitted a fiat to be recorded, that the beings whom it was His pleasure in the first instance to place amidst these lovely scenes, must eventually be swept...