LINDSAY, David

An Expedition across Australia from South to North, between the Telegraph Line and the Queensland Boundary, in 1885-6. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Volume XI, Number 11, November 1889

London, Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society, 1889.

Octavo, pages 650-671 pages plus a folding colour map. (The entire volume comprises iv, 641-704 pages with 2 maps, plus the folding map).

Original printed wrappers; some trifling wear at the extremities; in near-fine condition.

An account of Lindsay's private expedition of 1885-86, in which '... he took seven men and twelve camels from Hergott Springs to the Gulf of Carpentaria, tracing the Finke River to its mouth and seeking information about Ludwig Leichhardt. Lindsay surveyed the country between the overland telegraph line and the Queensland border, explored the MacDonnell Ranges, made a brief foray into the Simpson Desert, and spent six months in the country between Lake Nash and Powell's Creek' (Australian Dictionary of Biography). The introduction to this section states that it is 'slightly abridged', but in fact it is more detailed than the narrative read before the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, on 29 June 1887 and published in Volume II of the 'Proceedings' of the Society (1888) and in an offprint the same year. In addition to a different text, this publication also contains the colour lithographed map (entitled 'Map of Explorations & Surveys in the Northern Territory of South Australia ...' and a 'Vocabulary of the Language spoken by the Natives in Latitudes 23° to 28° S., as obtained by a Member of my Expedition, 1885-6'. The vocabulary was compiled by the expedition's naturalist, Lieutenant Hermann Dittrich, and constitutes an early record of the Arrernte (Aranda) language spoken in the vicinity of Dalhousie Springs and the Finke River.

The other contributions to this volume are:

RAVENSTEIN, E.G.: 'Geographical Co-ordinates in the Valley of the Upper Nile';

FLINDERS PETRIE, W.M.: 'Wind Action in Egypt'; and

'Explorations and Ascents in the Caucasus in 1889'.

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