If a white man of any known position had made the discovery, it would at once have received the name of some person holding official sway.

But this is altogether a purely geographical digression.
It was while on this expedition that Hume found the Goulburn Plains.

On another occasion he went with Alexander Berry, a noted south-coast pioneer, up the Shoalhaven River, and accompanied the party when they landed and conducted different excursions.

By the time he reached manhood, Hume was justly classed amongst the finest bushmen in the colony.

In his after career when he led the famous expedition to the south coast, and again, when as Sturt's right hand he accompanied that explorer on the notable expedition that solved the mystery of the outflow of the inland rivers and gave to settled Australia the mighty Darling, he fully proved his right to the title.
4.2.DISCOVERY OF THE HUME OR MURRAY.
It is perhaps by his fame as leader of the party that crossed from Lake George to the Southern Ocean that Hume's name is best remembered.