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Eyre, Edward John
Eyre, Edward John
Edward John Eyre [1815-1901], explorer, emigrated to NSW from England when he was 17. Settling in Adelaide after several pioneering expeditions with sheep and cattle, he made several attempts to find an overland stock route from the city to the west. In January 1840 he learned that a committee was organising an expedition to find a way west, but Eyre persuaded them to change the focus of the expedition to the north, agreeing to pay for half of this bid to 'discover the inland of Australia'. After many gruelling months, one of his party was murdered, and the rest disappeared. Eyre and his Aboriginal colleague, Wylie, eventually reached a place near what is now ...
In offering to the public an account of Expeditions of Discovery in Australia, undertaken in the years 1840-1, and completed in July of the latter year, some apology may be deemed necessary for this narrative not having sooner appeared, or perhaps even for its being now published at all.
With respect to the first, the author would remark that soon after his return to South Australia upon the close of the ... more...
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Eyre, Edward John
Eyre, Edward John
Edward John Eyre [1815-1901], explorer, emigrated to NSW from England when he was 17. Settling in Adelaide after several pioneering expeditions with sheep and cattle, he made several attempts to find an overland stock route from the city to the west. In January 1840 he learned that a committee was organising an expedition to find a way west, but Eyre persuaded them to change the focus of the expedition to the north, agreeing to pay for half of this bid to 'discover the inland of Australia'. After many gruelling months, one of his party was murdered, and the rest disappeared. Eyre and his Aboriginal colleague, Wylie, eventually reached a place near what is now ...
In offering to the public an account of Expeditions of Discovery in Australia, undertaken in the years 1840-1, and completed in July of the latter year, some apology may be deemed necessary for this narrative not having sooner appeared, or perhaps even for its being now published at all.
With respect to the first, the author would remark that soon after his return to South Australia upon the close of the ... more...
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IN a former narrative, published in the preceding volume of the ILLUSTRATED TRAVELS, I gave an account of a terrible cyclone which visited the north-eastern coast of Queensland in the autumn of 1866, nearly destroying the small settlements of Cardwell and Townsville, and doing an infinity of damage by uprooting heavy timber, blocking up the bush roads, etc. Amongst other calamities attendant on this visitation ... more...
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CHAPTER IITS BEGINNING
A “Sleeping Beauty” land—The coming of the English—Early explorations—The resourceful Australian.
The fairy-story of the Sleeping Beauty might have been thought out by someone having Australia in his mind. She was the Sleeping Beauty among the lands of the earth—a great continent, delicately beautiful in her natural features, wonderfully rich in ... more...
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I.The Voyage of the Hampshire.
Voyage to Australia has in these days become so ordinary an affair that it may seem to require an apology to attempt to describe one, but a voyage in a sailing ship is so different from that in a steamer that it may interest some people. It is, as a rule, only those who go abroad for their health who prefer a sailing ship, on account of the great length of the voyage, in ... more...
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PREFACE.
A few words by way of Preface are requisite, in order that the objects of the present Work may be stated to the reader, and that he may also be made acquainted with the sources whence the information here communicated is derived, and from consulting which he may still further inform himself concerning Australia. The aim of the writer of the following pages has been,—while furnishing a ... more...
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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY—THE EARLIEST AUSTRALIAN VOYAGERS: THE PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, AND DUTCH.
Learned geographers have gone back to very remote times, even to the Middle Ages, and, by the aid of old maps, have set up ingenious theories showing that the Australian continent was then known to explorers. Some evidence has been adduced of a French voyage in which the continent was discovered in the youth ... more...
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CHAPTER I.
Introductory. — First View of New Zealand. — First Sight of the Natives, and First Sensations experienced by a mere Pakeha. — A Maori Chief's Notions of Trading in the Old Times. — A Dissertation on "Courage." — A few Words on Dress. — The Chief's ... more...
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PART I
NEW SOUTH WALES.
STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENTS IN NEW HOLLAND.
The colony of New South Wales is situated on the eastern coast of New Holland. This island, which was first discovered by the Dutch in 1616, lies between the 9 degrees and 39 degrees of south latitude, and the 108 degrees and 153 degrees of east longitude; and from its immense size, seems rather to merit the appellation of ... more...
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INTRODUCTION.
Eighty years ago, when the story told in these pages was first published, "forecastle yarns" were more thrilling than they are now. In these days we look for information in regard to a new land's capabilities for pastoral, agricultural, and commercial pursuits; in those days it was customary, with a large portion of the British public, at any rate, to expect sailors to tell stories
Of the ... more...
