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AUSTRALIA FIRST. Malays, long before Captain Cook.
Tourists See It.
ROUND THE CON- TINENT
Travelling when and aplrit moved them, Mr.
where the
cylinder truck chassis.
They left Sydney on June 12, 1929 and ended the unusual holiday in January 1930. Details of the on the con- route and comments ditions are given below.
sportsman's
on the whs
of
on
and with
Six Days in Creek correct, was traversed en route. Derby is surrounded by a salt-pan, Patches of devil-devil country Shortly after leaving Broome, perfectly level, and a place where round Darwin proved very hard where they spent a most enjoyable some of the world famous speed- CAMO ta sters would undoubtedly And the travelling, only equalled by the fortnight-the caravan rugged country with Ironstone rest in a sandy gully, which had speed track they so badly need. outcrops which proved very hard been half corduroyed. They 85- From Broome thov proceeded, via! certained, subsequently, that it is Pt. Hedland and Meekathara to jon tyres.
intended to open a new all-weather Ferthele From Darwin a detour was made road from Broome to LaGrange,
Marvellous Colours. but unfortunately for them the to Marrakai, which is a regular direction boards had been erected The Marble Bar country, as it paradise-literally in anticipation of the completion is called, is characterised by its and Mrs. hundreds of buffaloes were seen, of the road, though the old track very red soil, and is chiefly remark
able for the beautiful colouring of J. C. Bates, of Sydney, have just providing a few intrepid sportsmen is the one still used..
Mr. Bates adopted the usual reds and purples at sunrise completed a trip around Australia
in an endeavour to sunset, usually associated in a caravan mounted on a six-with a means of livelihood. The
aborigines employed by these men methods
the extricate the truck, but un-the Egyptian desert. From Perth to be Some seemed
fortunately broke the jack to Adelaide, via.Kalgoorlie, proved fittest and happlest scen and had then resource to a the most uninteresting and barren the trip, their wages consist-
donkey team, comprising twenty part traversed, and ing of tobacco unlimited animals, whose united efforts also
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates un- meat. A big buck abo was acen resulted in a dismal failure. After
un- here, sitting, beside a large pile of six days in the creek, with water reservedly recommend this trip
to anybody desirous of an
in- Their route lay from Brisbane goose eggs, with the debris of those and food supplies running short, a
other rescue party arrived from Broome usual holiday. Information, and Rockhampton on the mid in-already consumed
with the necessary jacks, and soon sofar as routes, &c., were con- groaning
cerned, was supplied to them prior land road, to Long-reach and side of him. He
had the caravan out of trouble. and gently massaging
to the commencement" of their trip Townsville, from whence they fol- loudly
The Kimberleys' are a very large by the Shell Company of Australia, lowed the coast road (the worst that part of his anatomy not
usually massaged in polite society. outcrop of ironstone hills with oc- and they recommend any other encountered on the whole journey). Nevertheless, he managed to break casional patches of very fertile soil, tourists to obtain in advance the From Cairns they the shell of another egg-about one of which was found bearing route Information without which to Cairns,
the usual the thirteenth and consume it.a splendid crop of bananas and this trip would have been consider roached Darwin by Hughender and Barclay Tableland The intruders do not state whether other fruits. Wallah Station, the ably more difficult. Through the 3 chain of he finished the remaining thirty.place where Einstein's theory of establishment of route. The Barclay Tableland ju
All Kinds of Game.
the deflection of light was proved depots along the route by the Shell of country the use of the despised Company, it is now possible to make a rich black soil plain, handicapped|
The Mary River, at the time of
ass in large teams was very a trip of this description without at present by the long drought, and
into a their visit, had dried up
noticeable. Further south, how-arranging for supplies of spirit its isolated position..
series of waterholes, which could ever, camel teams are still common. land oil in advance. be better described as a chain of the most In the country round
small lakes, among they saw the meridian or magnetic virginal and abundant tropical anthills, which are found nowhere growth, the home of ducks, geese else in the world. Malayan in-and pelicans in apparently unlimit seen very ed quantities. Crocodiles in all' fluence could often be
Bízes were equally in evidence.
was back plainly in the aborigines, who were The route then well built specimens of manhood. Katherine, and thence vin Wave Along the North Australian rivers Hill, Hall's to Derby and Broome, were en-travelling the Kimberleysen route. also clumps of bamboo
camels were
quite countered. As bamboo is not in-flere
They have frequently grazing
Quaint Ant Hills.
Darwin
scen
to
digenous to Australia, this seems been turned out, having been almost to confirm the conclusion that entirely superceded by donkeys and Australia was discovered by the motor vehicles. Over this stretch
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