Item #75597 Mr Stuart's Exploration... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta, by Mr J.M. Stuart. John McDouall STUART.
Mr Stuart's Exploration... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta, by Mr J.M. Stuart
Mr Stuart's Exploration... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta, by Mr J.M. Stuart

Mr Stuart's Exploration... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta, by Mr J.M. Stuart

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858.

Foolscap folio, 7 pages plus a large folding map (600 × 500 mm, with blue hand-colouring to shorelines, both coastal and inland: 'Country explored by John McDouall Stuart. June to September 1858').

Drop-title, recently bound in cloth (lettered in gilt on the front cover); in fine condition.

South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858. McLaren 15449. Bound with the companion Parliamentary Paper Number 114 of 1858, 'Explorations by Mr Stuart.... Correspondence relative to Explorations by Mr John McDouall Stuart of Country to the North of Port Augusta, and West of Lake Torrens' (foolscap folio, 2 pages). McLaren 15448. This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end of Lake Torrens and then turned north and north-west until they reached the present site of Coober Pedy. They then followed a southerly course to Lake Gairdner, passing it on the west side. After a strenuous march, they arrived at Ceduna ... By now the men had run out of provisions. They travelled along the coast to Streaky Bay and from there to the settled districts at Mount Arden in a state of semi-starvation' (Feeken, Feeken and Spate).

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