Travels with Dr. LeichhardtAccount of travels in 1846 as botanist and naturalist with Leichhardts expedition to cross the Australian continent; observations on language and life-style of Aborigines encountered records of botanical finds; includes reminiscences of wanderings in Tasmania and Port Phillip; language and lifestyle of Aborigines at Western Port, Victoria. |
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aborigines Acacia appeared banks bark beautiful black fellows blossoms Boecking Brigalowe scrub Brown Bunce called camp cattle colony Comet River commenced companions Condamine Condamine river continued course crossed Daniel Bunce Darling Downs day's stage Diemen's Land distance doctor Dodonea emus encamped expedition feet flour formed goats grass ground gum trees head Hely hill Hobart Town horses Huon river invalids island Jemmy journey kangaroo killed lagoon latitude Launceston leaves Leichhardt LUDWIG LEICHHARDT Mackenzie Mackenzie River Mann meat Melbourne miles Moreton Bay morning Mount Wellington mountain mules native night noon observed opossum party patch of scrub Peak Range Perry plains plants Port Essington Port Phillip rain reaching remarkable returned road scrubby seeds seen sheep shrubs South Esk river species specimens station Thermometer tion took track travelling Turnbull Van Diemen's Land weather westward whole Wommai Yarra