Journal of John McDouall Stuart (Searchable) First Journey - May to September, 1858

The Journals:
First Journey - Expedition to the North-West. May to September, 1858.
Second Journey - Second Expedition (in the Vicinity of Lake Torrens). April to July, 1859.
Third Journey - Third Expedition (in the Vicinity of Lake Torrens). November, 1859, to January, 1860.
Fourth Journey - Fourth Expedition, Fixing the Centre of the Continent, from March to September, 1860.
Present Day Journeys - Journal of present day trips following John McDouall Stuart.

Tuesday, 27th July, Sandy Undulations

Started at 9 a.m. on the same bearing as yesterday, 182 degrees. At twenty-one miles changed our course to 235 degrees to some gum-trees. The first part of our journey the scrub became lower and more open, with limestone and sand rises at intervals, and with a good deal of grass in places. The last ten miles the mulga scrub was so dense that it was with difficulty we managed to get through. We have seen no water on this day’s route, except that in the lagoon we are now camped at, and which is as salt as the sea. There is another large lagoon about a mile to the westward of us, which I will examine to-morrow to see if it gives rise to any creek. Distance to-day, twenty-two miles.

 
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