in 1903, and had several honours conferred upon him by the Royal Geographical Society.

He died in Brisbane, in 1905.
If we except a short excursion down the Blackwood and Kojonup Rivers, his expedition of 1846, in which he was accompanied both by F.T.and H.C.
Gregory, was the first important enterprise undertaken by him.

It was in August that his party left Captain Scully's station at Bolgart's Springs, about seventy miles from Perth.
On leaving the settled districts they at once found themselves in the barren country that was damming back the eastward flow of settlement.
Having traversed it, they reached a range of granite hills, and turning more to the northward, they kept along these for the sake of the rain-water to be found in the rock holes.

On striking again to the east, they encountered an extensive salt lake, and in attempting to cross an arm of this marsh, their horses were bogged, and extricated only after great labour.

The lake was afterwards proved to be of great size, and to hem them in completely to the eastward, whilst, owing to its crescent-like formation, for five days it baffled all their attempts to proceed northwards.
Finally abandoning the lake, which they called Lake Moore, they turned to the westward to examine some of the streams crossed by Grey during his return from Shark's Bay.