knowing it.  The tree or trees were found on a watercourse, or courses, near the head of the Warrego River, in Queensland.  The above was all the information gained by this expedition.  A subsequent search expedition was sent out in 1858, under Augustus Gregory; this I shall place in its chronological order.  Kennedy, a companion of Sir Thomas Mitchell into Tropical Australia in 1845, next enters the field.  He went to trace Mitchell’s Victoria River or Barcoo, but finding it turned southwards and broke into many channels, he abandoned it, and on his return journey discovered the Warrego River, which may be termed the Murrumbidgee of Queensland.  On a second expedition, in 1848, Kennedy started from Moreton Bay to penetrate and explore the country of the long peninsula, which runs up northward between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Pacific Ocean, and ends at Cape York, the northernmost point of Australia in Torres Straits.  From this disastrous expedition he never returned.  He was starved, ill, fatigued, hunted by remorseless aborigines for days, and finally speared to death by the natives of Cape York, when almost within sight of his goal, where a vessel was waiting to succour him and all his party.  Only a black boy named Jacky Jacky was with him.  After Kennedy’s death Jacky buried all his papers in a hollow tree, and for a couple of days he eluded his pursuers, until, reaching the spot where his master had told him the vessel would be, he ran yelling down to the beach, followed by a crowd of murderous savages.  By the luckiest chance a boat happened to be at the beach, and the officers and crew rescued the boy.  The following day a party led by Jacky returned to where poor Kennedy lay, and they buried him.  They obtained his books and maps from the tree where Jacky had hidden them.  The narrative of this expedition is heart-rending.  Of the whole number of the whites, namely seven, two only were rescued by the vessel at a place where Kennedy had formed a depot on the coast, and left four men.

With Captain Roe, a companion of King’s, with whom he was speared and nearly killed by the natives of Goulburn Island, in 1820, and who afterwards became Surveyor-General of the colony of Western Australia, the list of Australia’s early explorers may be said to close, although I should remark that Augustus Gregory was a West Australian explorer as early as the year 1846.  Captain Roe conducted the most extensive inland exploration of Western Australia at that day, in 1848.  No works of fiction can excel, or indeed equal, in romantic and heart-stirring interest the volumes, worthy to be written in letters of gold, which record the deeds and the sufferings of these noble toilers in the dim and distant field of discovery afforded by the Australasian continent and its vast islands.  It would be well if those works were read by the present generation as eagerly as the imaginary tales of adventure which, while they appeal to no real sentiment, and convey no solid information,