23/30 Medicine had been omitted from the stores, and all the covering they had from the torrential rains was provided by two miserable calico tents. The 6th day of July found them back on Chauvel's station on the Condamine; a sad contrast to the party which had aspired to cross the continent. Born 1819, died September 7th, 1907, at Sydney. The last survivor of a Leichhardt expedition.] The onus of this wretched failure Leichhardt tried to cast upon his companions, upon whom he made many unjust aspersions. |