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White followed Maule's river for some miles to the westward, so that we could judge of the direction in which it fell into the Namoi.
A meandering line of trees bounded an open part of the intervening plain, and marked the course, as my guide informed me, of the Namoi. Now the hills I have just mentioned and the course of this river had been exactly described by The Bushranger, and the scene made me half believe his story.
I determined to proceed to the pic of Tangulda, this being the course also recommended by my guide as the best for the continued pursuit of the Namoi. Liverpool plains, which appear to the colonists as if boundless to the northward, were now so far behind us that their most northern limits were barely visible to the southward, in two faint yellow streaks.
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 saw the Namoi's course through a cluster of hills, between which it passed to a lower country in the north-west. These hills were connected on the right bank with the pic on which we stood, and with a low range in the east and north-east, whose western extremities appeared to terminate on the vale of the Namoi, as far northward as I could then see them in perspective.
The weather was excessively hot, yet the men worked hard at the saw-pit notwithstanding; but all our activity was in danger of being fruitless, for the river each day fell about four inches! December 26. At half-past one P.M. the first boat was launched on the Namoi, and the keel of the second immediately laid down.
Having arrived early at this spot I again ascended the range, and proceeded along its crests to one of the highest summits, named Warroga. From this point I could at length recognise Mount Murulla, Oxley's Pic, Moan, and other pinnacles of the Liverpool range, and with which I now connected my last station upon the Namoi.
After travelling upwards of ten miles we crossed the corner of an open plain, and five miles further on we reached the bank of the river Namoi, and encamped about noon.
We made the Namoi however in good time; this being the first of our former stages which we had been able to accomplish in one day since the wet weather commenced. The late rains had produced no change in the waters of this river; a circumstance showing perhaps that less had fallen in the south-east than on the plains where we had been. February 24. A fine cool morning.
Prepare to launch the boats on the Namoi. We advanced with feelings of intense interest into the country before us, and impressed with the responsibility of commencing the first chapter of its history. All was still new and nameless, but by this beginning, we were to open a way for the many other beginnings of civilised man, and thus extend his dominion over some of the last holds of barbarism.
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