Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... during the years 1844-1845 / By Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt.

  • Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... during the years 1844-1845 / By Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    begged my pardon. I told him that lie had parti¬ cularly offended Mr. Gilbert, and that I could not think of allowing him to stay, if Mr. Gilbert had the slightest objection to it: lie, 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, when out on a reco?moissct?ice to the northward, in order to get some game. John had been there twice before, and it was not four miles distant: they, however, did not return, and, at nine o’clock at night, we heard firing to the north-east. We answered by a similar signal, but they did not come in. I sent Mr. Hodgson and Charley to bring them back. If they had simply given the bridle to their horses, they would have brought them back without delay ; but probably both got bewildered. The latitude of this lagoon, which I called Kent’s Lagoon, after F. Kent, Esq., is 26° 42' 30''. We tried to obtain opossums, during the clear moonlight night, but only caught the common rabbit-rat. Our horses go right into the scrub, to get rid of the little flies, which torment them. The weather is very fair; the regular westerly breeze, during the day, is setting in again : the dew is very abundant during clear nights : the morning very cold; the water of the lagoon 8° to 10° warmer than the air. We 1 iave regularly balanced our loads, and made