Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia. Charles Sturt

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PONDS OF WATER

       THE GRASSY PARK

       RETURN TO THE RANGE

       EXCESSIVE HEAT

       A SINGULAR GEOLOGICAL FEATURE

       REGAIN THE DEPOT.

       CHAPTER VII

      MIGRATION OF THE BIRDS

       JOURNEY TO THE EASTWARD

       FLOODED PLAINS

       NATIVE FAMILY

       PROCEED SOUTH, BUT FIND NO WATER

       AGAIN TURN EASTWARD

       STERILE COUNTRY

       SALT LAGOON

       DISTANT HILLS TO THE EAST

       RETURN TO THE CAMP

       INTENSE HEAT

       OFFICERS ATTACKED BY SCURVY

       JOURNEY TO THE WEST

       NO WATER

       FORCED TO RETURN

       ILLNESS OF MR. POOLE

       VISITED BY A NATIVE

       SECOND JOURNEY TO THE EASTWARD

       STORY OF THE NATIVE

       KITES AND CROWS

       ERECT A PYRAMID ON MOUNT POOLE

       PREPARATIONS FOR A MOVE

       INDICATIONS OF RAIN

       INTENSE ANXIETY

       HEAVY RAIN

       MR. POOLE LEAVES WITH THE HOME RETURNING PARTY

       BREAK UP THE DEPOT

       MR. POOLE'S SUDDEN DEATH

       HIS FUNERAL

       PROGRESS

       WESTWARD

       THE JERBOA

       ESTABLISHMENT OF SECOND DEPOT

       NATIVE GLUTTONY

       DISTANT MOUNTAINS SEEN

       REACH LAKE TORRENS

       EXAMINATION OF THE COUNTRY N.W. OF IT

       RETURN TO THE DEPOT

       VISITED BY NATIVES

       PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE AGAIN INTO THE NORTH-WEST INTERIOR.

       CHAPTER VIII

      LEAVE THE DEPOT FOR THE NORTH-WEST

       SCARCITY OF WATER

       FOSSIL LIMESTONE

       ARRIVE AT THE FIRST CREEK

       EXTENSIVE PLAINS

       SUCCESSION OF CREEKS

       FLOODED CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY

       POND WITH FISH

       STERILE COUNTRY

       GRASSY PLAINS

       INTREPID NATIVE

       COUNTRY APPARENTLY IMPROVES

       DISAPPOINTMENTS

       WATER FOUND

       APPEARANCE OF THE STONY DESERT

       NIGHT THEREON

       THE EARTHY PLAIN

       HILLS RAISED BY REFRACTION

       RECOMMENCEMENT OF THE SAND RIDGES

       THEIR UNDEVIATING REGULARITY

       CONJECTURES AS TO THE DESERT

       RELATIVE POSITION OF LAKE TORRENS

       CONCLUDING REMARKS.

       CHAPTER IX

      FLOOD'S QUICK SIGHT

       FOREST FULL OF BIRDS

       NATIVE WELL

       BIRDS COLLECT TO DRINK

       DANGEROUS PLAIN

       FLOOD'S HORSE LOST

       SCARCITY OF WATER

       TURN NORTHWARD

       DISCOVER A LARGE CREEK

       BRIGHT PROSPECTS

       SUDDEN DISAPPOINTMENT

       SALT LAGOON

       SCARCITY OF WATER

       SALT WATER CREEK

       CHARACTER OF THE INTERIOR

       FORCED TO TURN BACK

       RISK OF ADVANCING

       THE FURTHEST NORTH

       RETURN TO AND EXAMINATION OF THE CREEK

       PROCEED TO THE WESTWARD

       DREADFUL COUNTRY

       JOURNEY TO THE NORTH

       AGAIN FORCED TO RETURN

       NATIVES

       STATION ON THE CREEK

       CONCLUDING REMARKS.

      PLATES TO VOLUME I.

       Chaining over the Sandhills to Lake Torrens

       Sketch of the Sturt's tracks and discoveries

       Sunset on the Murray

       Colonel Gawler's Camp on the Murray

       Ana-branch of the Darling

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