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SIMMONDS’S
Fix this textCOLONIAL MAGAZINE.
Fix this textPROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA
Fix this textCAPT. STURT'S EXPEDITION.
Fix this text[By late arrivals from South Australia, we have been put in possession
Fix this textof the following important Despatches from Capt. Sturt, reporting the
Fix this textprogress of the exploring Expedition under his charge, and announcing
Fix this textthe death of Mr. James Poole, second in command of the party.]
Fix this textAt the Depot, in Longitude 141. 30. East;
Fix this textLatitude 29. 40. 12. South.
Fix this textJune sth, 1845.
Fix this textSir, —Circumstances which I shall presently detail to you for His
Fix this textExcellency’s information having rendered it necessary for me to send a
Fix this textthird of my men back to Adelaide, I avail myself of the opportunity
Fix this textthus afforded me of forwarding to the Right Honourable the Secretary
Fix this textof State, through His Excellency, a copy of my Journal up to the end
Fix this textof March, together with a map and an explanatory despatch. I also
Fix this textforward collections of the different seeds, birds, and geological speci-
Fix this textmens, that have been secured by the Expedition to this date. Not
Fix this texthaving the means of packing these things as they should be packed,
Fix this textI should feel obliged if His Excellency will give the necessary orders
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Fix this textMy despatch to Lord Stanley having been written with a view to call
Fix this textHis Lordship’s attention to several parts of my Journal, and to explain
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Fix this textI am placed, and the grounds on which I have thought it expedient to
Fix this textadopt the measures I have done, it remains for me to report, through
Fix this textyou, to His Excellency, for the further information of the Secretary of
Fix this textState, the progress of the Expedition under my command since I last
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Fix this textI believe that in my letter of the 17th of October, 1844, I reported
Fix this textthat I had passed along the Darling without any rupture with the
Fix this textnatives, and that the reports I had heard at Lake Victoria of the mas-
Fix this textsacre of a party of Europeans had proved incorrect, the whole story
Fix this texthaving been based on Major Mitchell’s rupture with the natives in
Fix this text1836. I also reported that I was about to leave the camp on an excur-
Fix this textsion to the north-west, to examine the country seen by Mr. Poole. I
Fix this textaccordingly left Cawndilla, to which place I had moved the camp from
Fix this textthe junction of the Williorara with the Darling, on the 21st of the
Fix this textVOL. VII. NO. 27. MARCH, 1846.
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