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The basin in which these plains are situated belongs however to the Namoi, which receives all their waters; and, in the extensive landscape before me, there appeared to be an opening near Tangulda, through which the whole of these waters probably passed to the north-west. The Bushranger's tale was that he had reached the Kindur, or large river, by proceeding north-east by north from Tangulda.
On turning these mountains I directed my course northward, and to the eastward of north, into the country beyond them, in search of the river KINDUR; and I reached a river flowing westward, the bed of which was deep, broad, and permanent, but in which there was not then much water.
It was converted in a single night, from an almost dry channel, into a foaming and impetuous stream, rolling along its irresistible and turbid waters, to add to those of the Murray. The principal tributaries of the Darling, are the Kindur, the Keraula, the Namoy, and the Gwydir. It may be necessary to warn my readers that a creek in the Australian colonies, is not always an arm of the sea.
Here it was, indeed, a noble sheet of water, and I regretted much that this had not been our first view of it, that we might have realised, at least for a day or two, all that we had imagined of the Kindur. I now overlooked, from a bank seventy feet high, a river as broad as the Thames at Putney; and on which the goodly waves, perfectly free from fallen timber, danced in full liberty.
Nevertheless he persisted in his story of the river, and a party of mounted police commanded by Captain Forbes of the 39th regiment repaired to the Namoi, in search of a gang of bushrangers, but not without hopes of finding the Kindur. That active and enterprising officer reached the Gwydir in latitude 29 degrees 27 minutes 37 seconds South, longitude 150 degrees 5 minutes East.
As the junction of the Namoi could not be far distant, Mitchell had thus laid down the course and direction of these two large rivers, although he had as yet seen nothing of the object of his search, the Kindur. He now prepared to move once more to the north, anxious to find a river that did not belong to the Darling system.
We next crossed some slightly rising ground, and high in the branches of the trees I perceived, to my astonishment, dry tufts of grass, old logs, and other drift matter! I felt confident that we were at length approaching something new, perhaps the large river, the Kindur of The Bushranger. A narrow tract of rich soil covered with long grass and seared with deep furrows intervened.
Mitchell travelled, as it were, a more inland but parallel track, crossing the rivers much lower down. Thus the Field River of Oxley is the NAMOI of Mitchell, Cunningham's Gwydir is recognised by the Surveyor-General, and is probably the mythical KINDUR or KEINDER, whilst the last found river, Mitchell's KARAULA, is formed by the junction of Cunningham's Dumaresque and Condamine.
Settlement at King George's Sound The free colony of Swan River founded Governor Stirling Captain Bannister crosses from Perth to King George's Sound Explorations by Lieutenant Roe Disappointing nature of the interior Bunbury, Wilson, and Moore Settlement on the North Coast Melville Island and Raffles Bay An escaped convict's story The fabulous Kindur River Major Mitchell starts in search of it Discovery of the Namoi The Nundawar Range Failure of the boats Reach the Gwydir River of Cunningham The KARAULA Its identity with the Darling Murder of the two bullock-drivers Mitchell's return Murder of Captain Barker in Encounter Bay Major Mitchell's second expedition to trace the course of the Darling Traces the Bogan to its junction with that river Fort Bourke Progress down the river Hostility of the natives Skirmish with them Return Mitchell's third expedition The Lachlan followed Junction of the Darling and the Murray reached Mitchell's discovery of Australia Felix.
I galloped over this, and beheld a broad silvery expanse, shaded by steep banks and lofty trees. In this water no current was perceptible, but the breadth and depth of channel far exceeded that of the Namoi. Nevertheless this was not the Kindur as described by The Barber, but evidently the Gwydir of Cunningham, as seen by him at a higher part of its course.
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