The history of Australian exploration from 1788 to 1888Compiled from state documents, private papers and the most authentic sources of informationIssued under the auspices of the governments of the Australian colonies . hrough which Depot Creek forces itself, shut outfrom our view the extensive plains on which it rises. This then was Sturts prison, although at first he had notrealised that in spite of every precaution, his retreat was cut offuntil the next rainfall. Of Sturts existence and occupation during this drearyperiod little can be said. He tried in every direction, untilconvinced of th
The history of Australian exploration from 1788 to 1888Compiled from state documents, private papers and the most authentic sources of informationIssued under the auspices of the governments of the Australian colonies . hrough which Depot Creek forces itself, shut outfrom our view the extensive plains on which it rises. This then was Sturts prison, although at first he had notrealised that in spite of every precaution, his retreat was cut offuntil the next rainfall. Of Sturts existence and occupation during this drearyperiod little can be said. He tried in every direction, untilconvinced of the uselessness of so doing, sometimes encouragedand led on by shallow pools in some fragmentary creek bed, atothers, seeing nothing before him but hopeless aridity. Now,too, he found himself attacked with what he then thought wasrheumatism, but proved to be scurvy, and Poole and Brownetoo were alllictcd in the same way. We now come to one of the picturesque incidents that Sturthas introduced in his narrative, and that help to fix on ourmemory the strangely weird picture of the lonely band of menconfronted with the unaccustomed forces of nature in thiswilderness. O ^^eq HH WW ^^ ^O ^> oS w< H HO < E- S CO. .^ ^ J
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