EXPLORATIONS IN AUSTRALIA.
CHAPTER I.
Previous Expeditions into the Interior. — Attempts to discover a Route between South and Western Australia. — Eyre's Disastrous Journey. — Leichardt, the Lost Explorer. — The Latest Explorations.
As the history, of the principal expeditions into the
interior of Australia has been narrated by several
able writers, I do not propose to repeat what
has already been so well told. But, to make the
narrative of my own journeys more intelligible, and
to explain the motives for making them, it is necessary that I should briefly sketch the expeditions
undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the
nature of the vast regions intervening between
Western and the other Australian colonies, and
determining the possibility of opening up direct overland communication.
With energetic, if at times uncertain, steps the adventurous colonists have advanced from the settlements on the eastern and southern coasts of
