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David Wynford Carnegie. Spinifex and Sand
Spinifex and Sand
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART I. EARLY DAYS IN COOLGARDIE. CHAPTER I. Early Days In The Colony
Illustration 2: Jarrah Forrest, West Australia
Illustration 3: General store and Post-office, Coolgardie, 1892
CHAPTER II “Hard Up”
CHAPTER III. A Miner On Bayley's
Illustration 5: The “Gold Escort”
PART II. FIRST PROSPECTING EXPEDITION
CHAPTER I. The Rush To Kurnalpi—We Reach Queen Victoria Spring
Illustration 6: Grass trees, near Perth
CHAPTER II. In Unknown Country
Illustration 7: Death Of “Tommy”
Illustration 8: Fresh meat at last!
CHAPTER III. From Mount Shenton To Mount Margaret
PART III. SECOND PROSPECTING EXPEDITION
CHAPTER I. The Joys Of Portable Condensers
Illustration 9: Bayley Street, Coolgardia, 1894
CHAPTER II. Granite Rocks, “Namma Holes,” And “Soaks”
Illustration 10: Condensing water on a salt lake
CHAPTER III. A Fresh Start
CHAPTER IV. A Camel Fight
CHAPTER V. Gold At Lake Darlôt
CHAPTER VI. Alone In The Bush
CHAPTER VII. Sale Of Mine
Illustration 12: Miner's Right
PART IV. MINING
CHAPTER I. Quartz Reefing And Dry-Blowing
PART V. THE OUTWARD JOURNEY
CHAPTER I. Previous Explorers In The Interior Of Western Australia
CHAPTER II. Members And Equipment Of Expedition
CHAPTER III. The Journey Begins
CHAPTER IV. We Enter The Desert
Illustration 13: Typical sandstone gorge
Illustration 14: Crossing a salt lake
CHAPTER V. Water At Last
Illustration 16: At work in the cave, Empress Spring
CHAPTER VI. Woodhouse Lagoon
Illustration 17: Alexander Spring
Illustration 18: Woodhouse Lagoon
CHAPTER VII. The Great Undulating Desert Of Gravel
CHAPTER VIII. A Desert Tribe
SANDALS. Arunta Tribe
Illustration 19: A Buck and his gins in camp at Family Well
CHAPTER IX. Dr. Leichardt's Lost Expedition
CHAPTER X. The Desert Of Parallel Sand-Ridges
Illustration 20: Cresting a sand-ridge
CHAPTER XI. From Family Well To Helena Spring
CHAPTER XII. Helena Spring
Illustration 21: Helena Spring
CHAPTER XIII. From Helena Spring To The Southesk Tablelands
Illustration 22: The only specimen of desert architecture
Illustration 23: The Mad Buck
Illustration 24: Southesk Tablelands
Illustration 25: A native hunting party
Illustration 26: Plan of sand-ridges. Illustration 27: Exaggerated section of the sand-ridges
CHAPTER XIV. Death Of Stansmore
Illustration 28: Charles W. Stansmore
CHAPTER XV. Wells Exploring Expedition
CHAPTER XVI. Kimberley
CHAPTER XVII. Aboriginals At Hall's Creek
Illustration 29: Native preparing for the Emu-Dance
CHAPTER XVIII. Preparations For The Return Journey
APPENDIX TO PART V. SOME NATIVE WEAPONS AND CEREMONIAL IMPLEMENTS
Illustration 30: A,B Spears
Illustration 31: C Woomera
Illustration 32: D Iron Tomahawks
Illustration 33: E Stone Tomahawks
Illustration 34: F Boomerangs. Illustration 35: G Clubs and throwing-sticks
Illustration 37: J,K Quartz knife
Illustration 38: L Ceremonial sticks
Illustration 39: M,N Rain-making boards
Illustration 40: O Message sticks
PART VI. THE JOURNEY HOME
CHAPTER I. Return Journey Begins
Illustration 41: Group of explorers
Illustration 42: Just in time
CHAPTER II. Sturt Creek And “Gregory's Salt Sea”
CHAPTER III. Our Camp On The “Salt Sea”
Illustration 43: A wild escort of nearly one hundred men
CHAPTER IV. Desert Once More
CHAPTER V. Stansmore Range To Lake MacDonald
CHAPTER VI. Lake MacDonald To The Deep Rock-Holes
Illustration 44: Establishing friendly relations
Illustration 45: The tail-end of a miserable caravan
CHAPTER VII. The Last Of The Ridges Of Drift Sand
CHAPTER VIII. Woodhouse Lagoon Revisited
CHAPTER IX. Across Lake Wells To Lake Darlôt
CHAPTER X. The End Of The Expedition
APPENDIX
Illustration 46: A Karri Timber Train
Illustration 47: A Pearl Shell Station, Broome, N.W. Australia
