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Robert O'Hara Burke's Last Notes


Handwritten notes

Depot No. 2 Cooper Cr./Camp No. LXV
The returned party from Carpentaria consisting of myself Wills and King (Grey dead) arrived here last night and found that the depot party had only started on the same day. We proceed on slowly down the creek towards Adelaide by Mt Hopeless and shall endeavour to follow
Handwritten note

Gregory's track but we are very weak. The two camels are done up and we shall not be able to travel faster than four or five miles a day. Grey died on the road from exhaustion and fatigue. We have all suffered much from hunger. The provisions left here will, I think, restore our strength.
Handwritten note

We have discovered a practicable route to Carpentaria the chief portion of which lies on the 140th meridian of east longitude. There is some good country between this and the stony desert. From there to the Tropic the country is dry and stony between the Tropic and Carpentaria.

  
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