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- Frontmatter
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- CHAPTER I DR. LEICHHARDT'S EXPEDITION OVERLAND FROM MORETON BAY TO PORT ESSINGTON IN THE YEARS 1844 AND 1845
- CHAPTER II THE EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN STURT INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA IN THE YEARS 1844, 45, AND 46
- CHAPTER III EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIACONTINUED
- CHAPTER IV SIR THOMAS MITCHELL'S FOURTH EXPEDITION, DISCOVERY OF THE BARCOO
- CHAPTER V KENNEDY'S EXPLORATIONS OF THE BARCOO AND OF THE YORK PENINSULA, 1847
- CHAPTER VI THE EXPEDITION OF MR. ROBERT AUSTIN, ASSISTANT SURVEYOR, INTO THE INTERIOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, IN 1854
- CHAPTER VII EXPEDITION FOR THE EXPLORATION OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA IN 1855–6, UNDER THE COMMAND OF MR. A. C. GREGORY
- CHAPTER VIII THE EXPEDITIONS OF JOHN M'DOUALL STUART, EXTENDING FROM ADELAIDE TO THE NORTH SEA, FROM 1858 TO 1862
- CHAPTER IX THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF VICTORIA IN 1860-1 UNDER THE COMMAND OF MESSRS. BURKE AND WILLS
- CHAPTER X EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF THAT OF MESSRS. BURKE AND WILLS, UNDER THE COMMAND OF MR. ALFRED WILLIAM HOWITT, 1861-2
- CHAPTER XI THE JOURNEY OF BURKE AND WILLS TO THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA, AND RETURN TO COOPER'S CREEK
- CHAPTER XII THE EXPLORATION EXPEDITION OF MR. McKINLAY IN SEARCH OF BURKE AND WILLS IN 1861 AND 1862
- CHAPTER XIII LANDSBOROUGH'S EXPEDITION FROM THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA IN QUEST OF BURKE AND WILLS, 1861
- CHAPTER XIV MR. FREDERICK WALKER'S EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF BURKE AND WILLS
- CHAPTER XV EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1856–57–58, AND 59
- CHAPTER XVI EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1856–57–58, AND 59, CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XVII AUGUSTUS C. GREGORY'S EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF DR. LEICH HARDT'S REMAINS
- CHAPTER XVIII EXPEDITIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA IN 1858 AND 1861, BY MR. FRANK T. GREGORY
- CHAPTER XIX EXPEDITION FOR BRINGING DOWN THE REMAINS OF BURKE AND WILLS
- CHAPTER XX CONCLUSION OF DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XXI INCIDENTS OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER XXII DISCOVERY OF THE INSULARITY OF THE SOUTH ISLAND
- CHAPTER XXIII DISCOVERIES IN THE MIDDLE ISLAND CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XXIV OPENING COMMUNICATION WITH THE WEST COAST
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CHAPTER XIV - MR. FREDERICK WALKER'S EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF BURKE AND WILLS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I DR. LEICHHARDT'S EXPEDITION OVERLAND FROM MORETON BAY TO PORT ESSINGTON IN THE YEARS 1844 AND 1845
- CHAPTER II THE EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN STURT INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA IN THE YEARS 1844, 45, AND 46
- CHAPTER III EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIACONTINUED
- CHAPTER IV SIR THOMAS MITCHELL'S FOURTH EXPEDITION, DISCOVERY OF THE BARCOO
- CHAPTER V KENNEDY'S EXPLORATIONS OF THE BARCOO AND OF THE YORK PENINSULA, 1847
- CHAPTER VI THE EXPEDITION OF MR. ROBERT AUSTIN, ASSISTANT SURVEYOR, INTO THE INTERIOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, IN 1854
- CHAPTER VII EXPEDITION FOR THE EXPLORATION OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA IN 1855–6, UNDER THE COMMAND OF MR. A. C. GREGORY
- CHAPTER VIII THE EXPEDITIONS OF JOHN M'DOUALL STUART, EXTENDING FROM ADELAIDE TO THE NORTH SEA, FROM 1858 TO 1862
- CHAPTER IX THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF VICTORIA IN 1860-1 UNDER THE COMMAND OF MESSRS. BURKE AND WILLS
- CHAPTER X EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF THAT OF MESSRS. BURKE AND WILLS, UNDER THE COMMAND OF MR. ALFRED WILLIAM HOWITT, 1861-2
- CHAPTER XI THE JOURNEY OF BURKE AND WILLS TO THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA, AND RETURN TO COOPER'S CREEK
- CHAPTER XII THE EXPLORATION EXPEDITION OF MR. McKINLAY IN SEARCH OF BURKE AND WILLS IN 1861 AND 1862
- CHAPTER XIII LANDSBOROUGH'S EXPEDITION FROM THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA IN QUEST OF BURKE AND WILLS, 1861
- CHAPTER XIV MR. FREDERICK WALKER'S EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF BURKE AND WILLS
- CHAPTER XV EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1856–57–58, AND 59
- CHAPTER XVI EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1856–57–58, AND 59, CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XVII AUGUSTUS C. GREGORY'S EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF DR. LEICH HARDT'S REMAINS
- CHAPTER XVIII EXPEDITIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA IN 1858 AND 1861, BY MR. FRANK T. GREGORY
- CHAPTER XIX EXPEDITION FOR BRINGING DOWN THE REMAINS OF BURKE AND WILLS
- CHAPTER XX CONCLUSION OF DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XXI INCIDENTS OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER XXII DISCOVERY OF THE INSULARITY OF THE SOUTH ISLAND
- CHAPTER XXIII DISCOVERIES IN THE MIDDLE ISLAND CONTINUED
- CHAPTER XXIV OPENING COMMUNICATION WITH THE WEST COAST
- Plate section
Summary
From a letter of Governor Barkly, of Victoria, to Governor Bowen, of Queensland, dated July the 19th, 1861, we learn that through Captain Mayne, of Sydney, the Victoria Government had arranged with Mr. Frederick Walker to proceed from Rockhampton, in Queensland, to the Albert River, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, with his party of mounted aborigines, to search the intervening country, and co-operate with the steamers on the Albert for the discovery of Burke's tracks. Mr. Walker was already celebrated as an explorer in the interior of Queensland, and for his friendly relation to the natives. Captain Mayne had ordered Mr. Jardine, of Rockhampton, to buy twenty-seven horses for the journey, and hoped to have all the necessary stores ready to forward by the steamer which left Sydney on the 25th of that month. The promptitude and alacrity with which Mr. Walker commenced his operations for this enterprise, is shown by his journal, Victoria Report, 1861–2, in which he gives a hasty sketch of his proceedings, on receiving the news of his appointment to this arduous office. He was somewhere up the country, but he says:— “I received Captain Mayne's letter on the 6th of August. I returned that day forty miles to Bawhinia Downs; stopped there the next day to arrange matters with my friend, Mr. Chas. B. Dutton; sent Patrick to collect my men, and gave directions to Jack Horsfeldt to cure the meat for the expedition.
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- The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New ZealandFrom the Earliest Date to the Present Day, pp. 297 - 310Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1865