Chapter XV: Joy at Meeting Natives Speaking Some English--They Are Very

FRIENDLY--ALLAMURR--DISCERNMENT OF NATIVE SINCERITY--EAST
ALLIGATOR RIVER--CLOUDS OF DUST MISTAKEN FOR SMOKE--
IMPATIENCE TO REACH THE END OF THE JOURNEY--NATIVES STILL
MORE INTELLIGENT--NYUALL--BUFFALOES; SOURCE FROM WHICH THEY
SPRUNG--NATIVE GUIDES ENGAGED; BUT THEY DESERT US--MOUNT
MORRIS BAY--RAFFLES BAY--LEAVE THE PACKHORSE AND BULLOCK
BEHIND--BILL WHITE--ARRIVE AT PORT ESSINGTON--VOYAGE
TO SYDNEY.
APPENDIX
LETTER FROM THE COLONIAL SECRETARY TO DR. LEICHHARDT

THE LEICHHARDT TESTIMONIAL

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Lagoon near South Alligator River Portraits of "Charley" and "Harry Brown" Mount Nicholson, Expedition Range, etc. Peak Range Red Mountain Fletcher's Awl, etc. Campbell's Peak Mount M'Connel. Ranges seen from a granitic hill between second and third camp at the Burdekin Robey's Range Grasshopper View near South Alligator River Victoria Square, Port Essington