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George Grey. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia Vol. 2
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia Vol. 2
Table of Contents
JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY
CHAPTER 1. FROM GANTHEAUME BAY TO THE HUTT RIVER
CHAPTER 2. FROM THE HUTT RIVER TO WATER PEAK
CHAPTER 3. FROM WATER PEAK TO GAIRDNER'S RANGE
CHAPTER 4. FROM GAIRDNER'S RANGE TO PERTH
CHAPTER 5. FROM WATER PEAK TO PERTH
CHAPTER 6. SUMMARY OF DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER 7. VOYAGE HOMEWARDS
CHAPTER 8. THE OVERLANDERS
THE ABORIGINES
CHAPTER 9. NATIVE LANGUAGE
CHAPTER 10. THEIR TRADITIONAL LAWS
CHAPTER 11. LAWS OF RELATIONSHIP, MARRIAGE, AND INHERITANCE
CHAPTER 12. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER 13. SOCIAL CONDITION AND DOMESTIC HABITS
CHAPTER 14. FOOD AND HUNTING
CHAPTER 15. SONGS AND POETRY
CHAPTER 16. FUNERAL CEREMONIES, SUPERSTITIONS, AND REMARKABLE CUSTOMS
CHAPTER 17. CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES
CHAPTER 18. INFLUENCE OF EUROPEANS ON THE NATIVES
APPENDIX
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
APPENDIX E
APPENDIX F
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George Grey
Published by Good Press, 2021
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After traversing these plains for two miles in a south-east direction we came upon a valley through which flowed a branch of the river we had this day discovered, running in a bed of fifty yards across, and having in its centre a rapid stream falling in small cascades; it appeared at times subject to extensive inundations, and here its course was through barren plains covered with rocks piled up in strange fantastic masses, and the bed was composed of that kind of red sandstone which at Perth is called ironstone; this being the farthest point north at which I have remarked it.
A number of grass-trees (Xanthorrhoea) grew near the spot where we had halted; they appeared unhealthy and stunted, but indeed I suspect they are a new and undescribed variety. Being desirous of procuring anything I could for the men to eat I had the tops of some of these trees cut off and boiled, they were however still so hard that to chew them was impossible, and it was evident that we had not yet reached a parallel of latitude calculated to produce tender-topped grass trees.
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