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    CHAPTER I. The Pioneers of the Blue Mountains 25     CHAPTER II. Evans's Discovery of the Lachlan and Macquarie 34     CHAPTER III. Oxley's Expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie 37     CHAPTER IV. Hume and Hovell's Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip 45     CHAPTER V. Allan Cunningham's Explorations 53     CHAPTER VI. Captain Sturt's Three Expeditions 66     CHAPTER VII. Eyre's Adventurous Journey along the Great Australian Bight 96     CHAPTER VIII. Sir Thomas Mitchell's Four Expeditions 110    

CHAPTER IX.
Kennedy's Disastrous Expedition to Cape York	144
CHAPTER X.
Leichhardt's Expeditions to Port Essington and into the Interior	152
CHAPTER XI.
Mr. A. C. Gregory's Expedition to the North-West Interior	163
CHAPTER XII.
Burke and Wills's Expedition Across the Australian Continent	167
CHAPTER XIII.
Search Expeditions in Quest of Burke and Wills	182
CHAPTER XIV.
John M'Douall Stuart's Expeditions in the South, to the Centre, and Across the Continent	194
CHAPTER XV.
Colonel Warburton's Journey across the Western Interior	210
CHAPTER XVI.
The Hon. John Forrest's Explorations in Western Australia	219

CHAPTER XVII.
Mr. Ernest Giles's Explorations in Central and Western Australia	228
CHAPTER XVIII.
Other Explorers in Western Australia—Conclusion	237

 

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THE AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS.

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INTRODUCTION: PIONEER NAVIGATORS.

The eastern coast of New Holland, as Australia was then called, was discovered by Captain Cook, while engaged in the first of his voyages round the world. Leaving Cape Farewell, in New Zealand, on the 13th of March, 1770, and steering a north-westerly course, on the 18th of April he found the new continent rise into view in one of its south-eastern headlands, which was then named Point Hicks, but is now known as Cape Conran, and reckoned within the territory of Victoria. Henceforward the Endeavour was navigated along the coast to its most northern limit. In these southern waters no practicable landing-place was observed till Botany Bay was reached. Here the