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The cost and the empty honour has been ours, but theirs has been the substantial gain." The reply to this is very simple. In the first place, Howitt had been sent especially to follow up Burke from the start, and would therefore be supposed to be searching the country on the direct course. Again, Walker was as Landsborough thought then following the homeward track of the lost party.
Moira was to travel with me from Murtoa, and Cumshaw decided to train as far as Landsborough the recently opened Crowlands to Navarre railway would take him that far and then do the rest across the hills on foot.
Walker arrived at Carpentaria without seeing any traces of the missing Burke and Wills; but at the mouth of the Albert River met the master of the vessel that had conveyed Landsborough; the master had seen or heard nothing of Burke. Another expedition fitted out by Victoria, and called the Victorian Contingent Relief Expedition, was placed under the command of Alfred Howitt in 1861.
Landsborough has achieved a most valuable result in following the course he did; but we cannot help remarking that in so doing he seems to have been more intent upon serving the cause of pastoral settlement than upon ascertaining if it were possible to afford relief to the missing men.
Stuart's last Expedition Frew's Pond Daly Waters Arrival at the Sea The flag at last hoisted on the northern shore Return Serious illness of the Leader The Burke relief Expedition John M'Kinlay Native rumours Discovery of Gray's body Hodgkinson sent to Blanche Water with the news Returns with the information of King's rescue by Howitt M'Kinlay starts north Reaches the Gulf coast Makes for the new Queensland settlements on the Burdekin Reaches the Bowen River in safety Mystery of the camel's tracks Landsborough's expedition Discovery of the Gregory River The Herbert Return to the Albert depot News of Burke and Wills Landsborough reduces his party and starts home overland Returns by way of the Barcoo Landsborough and his critics His work as an Explorer Walker starts from Rockhampton Another L tree found on the Barcoo Walker crosses the head of the Flinders Finds the tracks of Burke and Wills Tries to follow them up Returns to Queensland Abandonment of the desert theory Private expeditions Dalrymple and others.
Landsborough for what he has actually effected, but we must not lose sight of 'the mission of humanity' in which he was professedly engaged, nor the fact that this mission was replaced by one of a totally different character, strengthening, as this circumstance does, the conviction, which is gaining ground in the public mind, that we have been deluded in expending large sums of money in sending out relief expeditions which were chiefly employed in exploring available country for the benefit of the Government and people of Queensland.
I have not learnt that either Messrs. Landsborough or Phillips, who were on the Diamantina in 1866, and crossed from that river over to the Flinders, commented on the quality of the country through which they travelled, and I can only explain that its naturally waterless state up to early in the eighties prevented its value becoming known.
The only chance of affording succour to the missing men, left to Landsborough, was the remote one of accidentally coming upon them. Nobody could have reasonably supposed that such a costly and elaborately got up expedition would have degenerated into a scamper across to the Gulf, and a scramble back over the same country.
Most of the work, with the exception of Stuart's, had been wrought out within her boundaries, and capital and stock flowed in from all sides. This led to many private expeditions, such as those conducted formerly by Messrs. Landsborough, Walker, and Buchanan. Amongst these, one under the leadership of Mr.
For a further description of this largest and handsomest of our Hydroid Polypes, I must refer you to Johnston, or, failing him, to Landsborough; and go on, to beg you not to despise those pink, or grey, or white lumps of jelly, which will expand in salt water into exquisite sea-anemones, of quite different forms from any which we have found along the rocks.
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