Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important, and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c., &c. London, T. and W. Boone, 1841, Volume 2Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 - Australia |
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Page 24
... marches ; utterly forgetting that most of the party had now only seven or eight pounds of fermented flour left , and that if they did not make play whilst they had strength , their even- tually reaching Perth was quite hopeless . This ...
... marches ; utterly forgetting that most of the party had now only seven or eight pounds of fermented flour left , and that if they did not make play whilst they had strength , their even- tually reaching Perth was quite hopeless . This ...
Page 43
... marches , cannot fail to have remarked how readily and foolishly they find excuses to enable them to obtain a halt , and such persons would proba- bly have agreed with me in suspecting that natural indolence of disposition ...
... marches , cannot fail to have remarked how readily and foolishly they find excuses to enable them to obtain a halt , and such persons would proba- bly have agreed with me in suspecting that natural indolence of disposition ...
Page 47
... marches and long halts . Being fully aware of the danger which threatened them , it remained for me to act with that decision which circumstances appeared to require , and to proceed by rapid and forced marches to Perth , whence ...
... marches and long halts . Being fully aware of the danger which threatened them , it remained for me to act with that decision which circumstances appeared to require , and to proceed by rapid and forced marches to Perth , whence ...
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