Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER XV GENERAL CONDITION OF AUSTRALIA AND STATISTICS
- CHAPTER XVI FURTHER ALTERATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONS
- CHAPTER XVII EXPLORATION AND ABORIGINES
- CHAPTER XVIII POWERS OF HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT—INTERCAMERAL DIFFERENCES—ATTACK ON THE COUNCIL IN SYDNEY—TACKS IN VICTORIA—SIR C. DARLING
- CHAPTER XIX PAYMENT OF MEMBERS—COLONIAL DEFENCES—IMPERIAL RELATIONS—REFORM BILLS IN VICTORIA—PARLIAMENTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AND QUEENSLAND, AND COUNCIL OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XX RELIGION AND EDUCATION—GOVERNORS—LABOUR-TRADE AND KIDNAPPING—FIJI—JUDICIAL AND JURY SYSTEMS—PUBLIC WORKS—FREE SELECTION OF LAND IN NEW SOUTH WALES—EDUCATION IN VICTORIA
- CHAPTER XXI GOVERNORS—ALIENATION OF CROWN LANDS IN VICTORIA, QUEENSLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA—NEW GUINEA—STATISTICS AND GENERAL CONDITION OF AUSTRALIA
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CHAPTER XVII - EXPLORATION AND ABORIGINES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER XV GENERAL CONDITION OF AUSTRALIA AND STATISTICS
- CHAPTER XVI FURTHER ALTERATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONS
- CHAPTER XVII EXPLORATION AND ABORIGINES
- CHAPTER XVIII POWERS OF HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT—INTERCAMERAL DIFFERENCES—ATTACK ON THE COUNCIL IN SYDNEY—TACKS IN VICTORIA—SIR C. DARLING
- CHAPTER XIX PAYMENT OF MEMBERS—COLONIAL DEFENCES—IMPERIAL RELATIONS—REFORM BILLS IN VICTORIA—PARLIAMENTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AND QUEENSLAND, AND COUNCIL OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XX RELIGION AND EDUCATION—GOVERNORS—LABOUR-TRADE AND KIDNAPPING—FIJI—JUDICIAL AND JURY SYSTEMS—PUBLIC WORKS—FREE SELECTION OF LAND IN NEW SOUTH WALES—EDUCATION IN VICTORIA
- CHAPTER XXI GOVERNORS—ALIENATION OF CROWN LANDS IN VICTORIA, QUEENSLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA—NEW GUINEA—STATISTICS AND GENERAL CONDITION OF AUSTRALIA
- Title in the series
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Summary
The history of the Australian Colonies may after the year 1856 be much condensed. Results rather than details of events will suffice. The pilgrim fathers only can command the interest which justifies a large mingling of biography with the general narrative. A few familiar names will still recur, some few incidents (such as that in which an imprudent Governor strove to do violence to the Constitution of New South Wales in 1861) will deserve dramatic treatment; but, in the main, personal details will be unnecessary.
The course of exploration of the continent may first be dealt with. The successful journey of Leichhardt, in 1844, to Port Essington, through wide tracts previously unseen by Europeans; his fatal expedition in 1848; the hardships encountered by Sturt in 1844-5-6 in the interior; the several journeys of Mr. Roe the Surveyor-General and of Mr. A. C. Gregory in Western Australia up to the year 1848; the expedition in which Sir Thomas Mitchell, in 1846, named as the Victoria river what is now known as the Barcoo or Cooper's Creek; the disastrous death of Kennedy near Cape York in 1848, may be remembered. Discovery for a time received a check throughout the continent. Commercial calamities, the distraction of labour to California, the all-absorbing pursuit of gold, in turn diverted public attention.
In 1854, Mr. Austin, an assistant-surveyor, led an expedition which only added proof of the sterility of Western Australia and of the endurance of her explorers.
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- History of Australia , pp. 188 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1883