Australian heroes and adventurers . ned to the depot, so he andBrah^ left his party in the encampment and madefor Coopers Creek. On the 8th of May, while Burke and his twocompanions were down at the lower part of the creekmaking for Mount Hopeless, Wright and Brah6arrived at the depot, and seeing the place undisturbedthey concluded that the advance party had perishedin the journey northwards. Wright and Brahe madea terrible blunder in not digging to see if theprovisions deposited by Brahe had been a careless look around they returned to theencampment at Koorliatto, and then the w
Australian heroes and adventurers . ned to the depot, so he andBrah^ left his party in the encampment and madefor Coopers Creek. On the 8th of May, while Burke and his twocompanions were down at the lower part of the creekmaking for Mount Hopeless, Wright and Brah6arrived at the depot, and seeing the place undisturbedthey concluded that the advance party had perishedin the journey northwards. Wright and Brahe madea terrible blunder in not digging to see if theprovisions deposited by Brahe had been a careless look around they returned to theencampment at Koorliatto, and then the whole partyset out for the River Darling. Their progress wasslow, and another fatality occurred near the 6th of January, Patten, who had beengradually sinking since he left the depot with Brah^, The Return Jotirney. %Z succumbed under his privations. Wrights partyreached the Darhng on the i8th of June, and im-mediately sent despatches to the Exploration Com-mittee, begging that search might be made for theadvance CHAPTER III. SUFFERINGS AND DEATHS OF THE TWO LEADERS. WE will now take up the thread of the narrativefrom where we left the enfeebled explorers(Burke, Wills, and King) at the deserted adopted the life of the blacks, and managedto subsist on the nardoo, although it was veryinnutritions. More than a month had elapsed sincethey had left the depot, and Burke thought thata relief party might have reached that place in theinterval. Wills now volunteered to return anddeposit, in place of Burkes former note, a letterstating that the party were living on the lower part ofthe creek, and also to bury there the field-books ofthe journey to the Gulf. He expected to be away foreight days, and took with him three pounds of flour,four pounds of pounded nardoo, and one pound ofdried meat. During his absence Burke and King had thefollowing adventure with the blacks (we have copiedthe account of it from Kings narrative):— A fewdays after Mr. Wills left
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