On the 21st Burke's body was found up the creek; he too was at first buried where he died.

Howitt, after rewarding the blacks who had cared for King, started back for Melbourne by easy stages.

On his arrival there he was sent back to disinter the remains of the dead; a task which he and Welch safely accomplished, bringing the bodies down by way of Adelaide.
Dr.Becker, Stone, Purcell, and Patton were the others whose lives were sacrificed on this expedition, so marked with disaster.

These victims received no token of public recognition of their fate, although a public funeral was accorded to Burke and Wills, and a statue has been erected to their memory in Melbourne.
[Illustration.

The Burke and Wills Statue, Melbourne.] The foolish and unaccountable oversight of Burke and his companions in not marking a tree, or otherwise leaving some recognisable sign of their return at the depot, seems to have led Brahe astray completely.