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The westerly winds occurring at the upper Lynd, do not militate against such a supposition, as they might well belong to an upper current coming from the sea.
The horse is soon unsaddled, hobbled, and well washed; a fire is made, the teapot is put to the fire, the meat is dressed, the enjoyment of the poor reconnoiterer is perfect, and a prayer of thankfulness to the Almighty God who protects the wanderer on his journey, bursts from his grateful lips. May 25. We travelled about eight miles down the Lynd.
When I first came on the Lynd, I supposed that it flowed either independently to the head of the gulf, or that it was the tributary of a river which collected the waters of the York Peninsula, and carried them in a south-west or south-south-west course to the head of the gulf of Carpentaria.
Jardine skirted, and the heads of the rivers Staaten, Lynd, Mitchell, and Batavia.
According to their account, the river enlarged into an immense sandy bed, like that of the Lynd, and was covered with trees and shrubs, very much resembling those of that river. Its course was from the westward; and in that direction large plains extended. They had seen three crocodiles, one of which lay in the shade of a Sarcocephalus tree.
At 18 miles they struck an ana-branch having some fine lagoons in it, and half-a-mile further on a river 100 yards wide, waterless, and the channels filled up with melaleuca and grevillea; this, though not answering to Leichhardt's description, they supposed to be an ana-branch of the Lynd; its course was north-west.
That such was not the case, was proved by Alexander Jardine, who traced it down for 180 miles from Carpentaria Downs, when he turned back, within about a day's stage of its junction with the Gilbert, fully satisfied that it could not be the Lynd. Since then it has, I believe, been traced into the Gilbert, and thence to the Gulf.
It seems that the natives usually sit within the circle of fires; but it is difficult to know whether it belonged to a family, or whether each fire had an independent proprietor. Along the Lynd and Mitchell, the natives made their fires generally in heaps of stones, which served as ovens for cooking their victuals.
Start from Carpentaria Downs Order of Travel Canal Creek Cawana Swamp Simons' Gap Cowderoy's Bluff Barney's Nob Casualties in Parallel Creek Basaltic Wall Singular Fish Black Carbonado Improvement in Country Search for the Lynd Doubts First rain Error of Starting point Large ant-hills Ship's iron found Native nets Second start in search of Lynd Return Byerley Creek The whole party moves forward Belle Creek Maroon Creek Cockburn Creek Short Commons Camp Burned The Powder saved Maramie Creek The Staaten First hostility of Natives Poison "Marion" abandoned Conclusion as to River Heavy rain First attack of Natives Horses lost Barren Country Detention Leader attacked by Natives Black-boy attacked A "growl" Mosquitoes and flies Kites Cattle missing Horses found Leader again attacked Main party attacked Return to the River Character of Staaten Lagoon Creek Tea-tree levels Junction of Maramie Creek Reach head of tide Confirmation of opinion.
Up to this time, Frank Jardine had supposed the stream they were on to be the Mitchell, but finding its course so little agreeing with Leichhardt's description of it, below the junction of the Lynd, which is there said to run N.W., he was inclined to the conclusion that they had not yet reached that river. Mr.
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