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... depot on the Murrumbidgee . They sailed into the lake expecting to enter the sea in St. Vincent Gulf where a ship was waiting . But the lake shoaled so rapidly they could find no passage through to Encounter Bay . After a dreadful day ...
... depot on the Murrumbidgee . They sailed into the lake expecting to enter the sea in St. Vincent Gulf where a ship was waiting . But the lake shoaled so rapidly they could find no passage through to Encounter Bay . After a dreadful day ...
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... depot , but had they looked properly they would have found the food cache had been disturbed . Burke's position at the estuary of the Flinders River did not call for undue optimism . They had less than a month's pro- visions . The few ...
... depot , but had they looked properly they would have found the food cache had been disturbed . Burke's position at the estuary of the Flinders River did not call for undue optimism . They had less than a month's pro- visions . The few ...
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... depot with Wright , a few days later , he did not know that Burke had been there and never bothered to see if the stores had been used . Brahe , too , never left a message to say he had called back at the depot . The three men ...
... depot with Wright , a few days later , he did not know that Burke had been there and never bothered to see if the stores had been used . Brahe , too , never left a message to say he had called back at the depot . The three men ...
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The Coast of Doom I I | 11 |
The First British Landing | 21 |
Columbus of the South | 26 |
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