CHAPTER III - EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIACONTINUED

Summary

EXPEDITION OF MESSRS. LANDOR AND LEFROY IN SEARCH OF AN INLAND SEA, IN 1843

The journal of these gentlemen was published as a letter to the Perth Inquirer. It contains the following statements. They left York on the 9th of January with a pack-horse carrying flour, tea, and sugar for a month. They had two native guides, Konak and Quallet, who were ready at all times to carry game, or firewood, or do any little office required of them. They also took from York a native boy, to shoot kangaroos, and act as interpreter when the guides were unintelligible to them. Their whole journey out and back only occupied fourteen days, that is, from the 9th to 23rd. They proceeded by Nymbatilling to the Hotham River, and by Carbal to a mound spring, called by the natives Yungamening. The country was generally level, partly scrub, partly good grazing land. Beyond Yungamening they passed over some hills into another fertile valley. Beyond this, on the 14th, they crossed a large river, first flowing east, and then west, and were told by the natives that it was the Williams. The country about it was bad. The valleys were boggy, the hills covered with poison plants. Soon after, they reached a shallow lake, nowhere deeper than up to their knees, but the water fresh and excellent. The lake was about two miles by one and a half.