The Australian Explorers, Their Labours, Perils and Achievements authored by George Grimm, M.A

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Grimm, George

Title

The Australian Explorers: Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements Being a Narrative of Discovery from the Landing of Captain Cook to the Centennial Year

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Produced by Paul Mitchell, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)

Subject

Explorers -- Australia

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eBook-No.

41270

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41270

Release Date

November 2, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE — AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS — THEIR
2. 2.LABOURS, PERILS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS — BEING A NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY FROM THE LANDING OF CAPTAIN COOK TO THE CENTENNIAL YEAR — BY
3. 3.GEORGE GRIMM, M.A. — MINISTER OF ST. PAUL'S, BALMAIN WEST, SYDNEY; AND TUTOR IN APOLOGETICS AND SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW SOUTH WALES — GEORGE ROBERTSON & COMPANY MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY 1888
4. 4.TO THE MEMORY — OF THE LATE — JOHN DUNMORE LANG, D.D. — IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE — OF MUCH PLEASANT INTERCOURSE — THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.CONTENTS. — THE AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS.
7. 7.INTRODUCTION: PIONEER NAVIGATORS.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. — THE PIONEERS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — SURVEYOR EVANS'S DISCOVERY OF THE LACHLAN AND MACQUARIE RIVERS AND THE BATHURST PLAINS.
10. 10.CHAPTER III. — OXLEY'S EXPEDITIONS TO THE LACHLAN AND MACQUARIE RIVERS. — I. — II.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV. — HUME AND HOVELL'S EXPEDITION FROM LAKE GEORGE TO PORT PHILLIP.
12. 12.CHAPTER V. — ALLAN CUNNINGHAM'S EXPLORATIONS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VI. — CAPTAIN STURT'S THREE EXPEDITIONS. — I. — II. — III.
14. 14.CHAPTER VII. — EYRE'S ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY ALONG THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII. — SIR THOMAS MITCHELL'S FOUR EXPEDITIONS. — I. — II. — III. — IV.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX. — KENNEDY'S DISASTROUS EXPEDITION TO CAPE YORK.
17. 17.CHAPTER X. — LEICHHARDT'S EXPEDITIONS TO PORT ESSINGTON AND INTO THE INTERIOR. — I. — II. — III. — IV.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. — MR. A. C. GREGORY'S EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH-WEST INTERIOR.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII. — BURKE AND WILLS'S EXPEDITION ACROSS THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. — SEARCH EXPEDITIONS IN QUEST OF BURKE AND WILLS. — I. — II. — III. — IV.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. — JOHN M'DOUALL STUART'S EXPEDITIONS IN THE SOUTH, TO THE CENTRE, AND ACROSS THE CONTINENT. — I. — II. — III. — IV.
22. 22.CHAPTER XV. — COLONEL WARBURTON'S JOURNEY ACROSS THE WESTERN INTERIOR.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI. — THE HON. JOHN FORREST'S EXPLORATIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. — I. — II. — III.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII. — MR. ERNEST GILE'S EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA. — I. — II. — III.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII. — OTHER EXPLORERS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—CONCLUSION.
26. 26.INDEX.

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