Contents – Exploration Eastwards
Dedication v
Measurements vii
Directions viii
The people who worked on this volume x
Contents xiv
Illustrations and maps xv
Acknowledgements xvi
Foreword xvii
Introduction xix
Lost Explorers. 1
Did a Dutchman find Hannans? 1
Who discovered Hannans? 2
What the blacks say. 3
J.T. and J.S. in 1851? 4
A South Australian claim. 4
Far from home. 5
1860.
Dempster’s Danberrin Hill Expedition. 5
The Smith Brothers exploring to Cumminin. 8
Lennard exploring to Nalyering. 10
1861.
Hassell’s Expedition to Esperance Bay. 11
Dempster’s Expedition to the eastward of Northam. 16
1862.
Dempster’s Exploration to the South-East. 33
1863.
Hargraves in the search for gold. 34
Hardey’s Exploration 100 miles east of York. 54
Dempster’s Expedition to Point Culver. 55
Lefroy’s Eastern Exploring Expedition. 70
Hay’s Expedition to Thistle Cove. 172
Cowan’s Exploration 60 miles east of Cumminin. 174
Wood on a new river in Australia. 175
1864.
Hunt’s Koolanobbing Exploration eastward of York, 1864. 178
Clarkson, Harper and Lukin to the North and east of Toodyay. 187
Hunt’s second 1864 Expedition. 201
The Monks Exploring North-East of New Norcia. 289
1865.
Hunt’s Eastern Exploring Expedition, 1865. 289
Dempster. Esperance to Dundas Hills. 392
Delisser to the northwest of the Great Australian Bight. 396
1866.
Edward’s Expedition to Kokerbin Rock. 401
Belches and Taylor. Albany to the Hampton Plains. 402
Hunt’s Expedition to the Eastern interior, 1866. 422
- Roe’s Expedition to the Eastern interior. 483
Escaped convicts on the Warren. 492
1867.
Monger and Hardy to the East. 496
1868.
Cooke’s Expedition to the Eastward of the Irwin. 497
Monger’s Expedition to the North-Eastward of York. 502
1869.
Durlacher’s Expedition to Tallering. 505
Appendix 1 Participants in the Expeditions 508
Appendix 2 Plants by Alex George 522
Appendix 3 Fauna and Ecology by Ian Abbott 532
Index of People 542
Index of Places 546
General Index 555
Illustrations and maps
Henry Maxwell Lefroy. Battye Library ii
Map. Dempster 1861. Courtesy of SROWA Cons 3423. Exploration Plan 126 18
Map. Lefroy 1863. Courtesy of the National Library of Australia 72
Map. Clarkson 1864. Courtesy of SROWA Cons 3423. Exploration Plan 038 188
Map. Early Exploration. Courtesy of J.J. Gresham Kambalda. History of a Mining Town. WMC 1991 202
Mt Sterling Range as seen from Maranebbing in a NE directing from Mt. Caroline distant about 20 miles 212
Survey sketch FB2. September 1865. Dangin area. Courtesy of SROWA Cons 291
Map. Hunt 1864-6. Courtesy of SROWA Cons 3423 Exploration Plan 29 292
Survey sketch FB2 20 May 1865. Vicinity of Boorabbin. Courtesy of SROWA Cons 348
Map. Delisser 1865. Courtesy of SROWA Cons 3423. Exploration Plan 125 397
Lockier Clere Burges. 509
Barnard Drummond Clarkson. 509
Nathaniel William Cooke 510
Andrew & Emily Dempster. 511
Charles Edward & Maggie Dempster. 512
Thomas Edwards. 513
Edward Frank Hall. 514
Edmund Hargraves. 515
Charles Harper 515
Henry Maxwell Lefroy. 517
Lionel Boyd Lukin. 518
Tommy Winditch. 521