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None of the words of The Barber seemed at all intelligible to them, but on mentioning the Namoi they pointed to the south-west, which I knew was the direction in which that river was nearest to the camp. I recognised the gigantic pipe-clayed man who had presented his spear at me when we first reached the Gwydir much higher up.
His attempt was fruitless, one of the boats was soon snagged, and it became evident that it would be much easier to follow the Namoi on horseback. Leaving the river, after passing the range he had vainly tried to cross, Mitchell, on the 9th of January, 1832, came to the river Gwydir of Cunningham.
We traversed, as rapidly as we could, these precarious plains, keeping the woods which enveloped the Gwydir on our right: and thus, at the end of twelve miles, we arrived on the banks of a lagoon, apparently a continuation of the line of ponds or river, which had proved such a providential relief to us after our severe suffering from want of water under Mount Frazer.
Into this river we had traced the Gwydir; the junction of the Namoi, also, could not be far distant; and even that of the Castlereagh was only about 70 miles to the south-west, which was the direction of the supposed general course of the Darling.
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.
Turning to the westward the party followed this river down for eighty miles, when he again returned to his northern course, and came to the largest river he had yet found. This was called, by the natives, the KARAULA, and Mitchell descended it until convinced, by its southern course and the junction of the Gwydir, that he was on the upper part of Sturt's Darling.
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