Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington; During the Years 1844-1845 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 14 Charley's Misconduct. Many pigeons were seen; the black cockatoo of Leach (Calyptorhynchus Leachii) was shot; we passed several nests of the hrush-turkey (Talegalla Lathami, Gould). Charley got a probably new species of bandicoot, with longer ears than the common one, and with white paws. We distinguished, during the rain, three different frogs, which made a very inharmonious concert. The succinea-like shells were very abundant in the moist grass; and a limnaea in the lagoon seamed to me to be a species different from those I had observed in the Moreton Bay district. The thermometer at sunset 62 (in the water 68); at sunrise 52 (in the water 62). On the 15th October, the wind changed during the afternoon to the westward, and cleared the sky, and dried the ground very rapidly. Oct. 17.?The ground was too heavy and boggy to permit us to start yesterday; besides, three horses were absent, and could not be found. Last night, Mr. Roper brought in three ducks and a pigeon, and was joyfully welcomed by all hands. Charley bad been insolent several times, when I sent him out after the cattle, and, this morning, he even threatened to shoot Mr. Gilbert. I immediately dismissed him from our service, and took from him all the things which he held on condition of stopping with us. The wind continued from the west and south-west. Oct. 18.?Towards evening Charley came and MURPHY AND CALEB LOST. 15 begged my pardon. I told him that he had particularly offended Mr. Gilbert, and that I could not think of allowing him to stay, if Mr. Gilbert had the slightest objection to it: he, therefore, addressed himself to Mr. Gilbert, and, with his consent, Charley entered again into our service. John Murphy and Caleb, the American negro, went to a creek, which Mr. Hodgson had first seen, ...