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Title: Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: De Satgé, Oscar, b. 1836
Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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elf, who were not much behind our boys in thatrespect, driving the horses after the canoe. Ournao-s sfot so used to follow the canoes, that, beforeour expedition was over, they gave us hardly anytrouble in taking to the water and landing on theright side after their swim across. About 150 to 200 miles more brought us to thecountry Mr. Lloyd wanted us to inspect, which wasopposite Gundabooka, a station then held by thebrothers Spence who had settled there very recently,some 30 miles below what is now the big town-ship of Bourke, which was originally founded on thesite of an old camp of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, who had called astockade he there made of huge gum logs FortBourke, after Governor Bourke. The township isnow a very important one, being the terminus ofthe Western Eailway of New South Whales andthe head of the navigation of the Darling, fromthe eventual canalization of which, with its pro-bable irrigation, enormous possibilities are undoubt- 122
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J.I.ACK CIS. ),()\ni;k XAMOI. x.s.w. A TRIP TO THE DARLING. edly in store. Moreover, from its wide meatsupplies, it is not too much to say that Bourkemay at no ver) distant date become the Chicago ofAustraHa. We were at once enabled to authenticate theposition of our blocks, Mere and Toorale, by theline of timber that marked the junction of theWarrego Eiver, one of the most important of theconfluents of the Darling that join it on its north-western bank. The Messrs. Spence were very hospitable, andgave us all the information they could. We estab-lished our camp on the other side of the river,opposite their head station, and spent a fortnightin thoroughly exploring the country under offer.We also went some distance up the Warrego, thatriver assuming larger proportions above its junctionwith the Darling than we could have believed likelyby its appearance at the junction ; not at all anunfrequent characteristic of central and westernwatersheds in Australia, which oftentimes have atendenc

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