He ascended the south-east portion of the main dividing range, and named the highest peak thereof Kosciusko, after a fancied resemblance in its outline to that Polish patriot's tomb at Cracow.
On the 27th of March, 1840, he reached the cattle station on the Tambo whither McMillan had just returned, and was directed by him on to his newly-discovered country.

Strzelecki pushed through to Western Port, meeting with some scrubby and almost inaccessible country during the last stages of his journey.

His party had to abandon both horses and packs, and fight its way through a dense undergrowth on a scanty ration of one biscuit and a slice of bacon per day, varied with an occasional native bear.

It was here that the Count, who was an athletic man, found that his hardy constitution stood the party in good stead.

So weakened and exhausted were his companions, that it was only by constant encouragement that he urged them along at all.