THE EXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIA
AND THEIR LIFE-WORK.
BY
ERNEST FAVENC,
Explorer, and Author of The History of Australian Exploration, TheGeographical Development of Australia, Tales of the Austral Tropics, TheSecret of the Australian Desert, etc., and Voices of the Desert (Poems).
1908.
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THE MAKERS OF AUSTRALASIA.
EARLY VOLUMES
(IN PREPARATION).
CAPTAIN COOK and his Predecessors in Australasian Waters, by REGINALDFORD, F.R.G.S., Member of the British National Antarctic Expedition.
GOVERNOR PHILLIP and his Immediate successors, BY F.M. BLADEN, ChiefLibrarian, Public Library, Sydney.
EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, by THE EDITOR.
SIR GEORGE GREY, by JAMES COLLIER, sometime Librarian, General AssemblyLibrary, Wellington.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
In presenting to the public this history of those makers of Australasiawhose work consisted in the exploration of the surface of the continentof Australia, I have much pleasure in drawing the reader's attention tothe portraits which illustrate the text. It is, I venture to say, themost complete collection of portraits of the explorers that has yet beenpublished in one volume. Some of them of course must needs beconventional; but many of them, such as the portrait of Oxley when ayoung man, and of A.C. Gregory, have never been given publicity before;and in many cases I have selected early portraits, whenever I had theopportunity, in preference to the oft published portrait of the samesubject when advanced in years.
There are many who assisted me in the collection of these portraits. ToMr. F. Bladen, of the Public Library, Sydney; Mr. Malcolm Fraser, ofPerth, Western Australia; Mr. Thomas Gill, of Adelaide; Sir John Forrest;The Reverend J. Milne Curran; Mr. Archibald Meston; and many others mybest thanks are due. In fact, in such a work as this, one cannot hope forsuccess unless he seek the assistance of those who remembered theexplorers in life, or have heard their friends and relatives talkfamiliarly of them. Let me particularly hope that from these pages ouryouth, who should be interested in the exploration of their native land,will form an adequate idea of the character of the men who helped to makeAustralia, and of some of the adverse conditions against which theystruggled so nobly.
ERNEST FAVENC.
Sydney, 1908.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
The published Journals of all the Explorers of Australia.
Reports of Explorations published in Parliamentary Papers.
History of New South Wales, from the Records. (Barton and Bladen.)
Account of New South Wales, by Captain Watkin Tench.
Manuscript Diaries of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
Manuscript Diaries of G.W. Evans. (Macquarie and Lachlan Rivers.)
The Pioneers of Victoria and South Australia, by various writers.
Contemporaneous Australian Journals of the several States.
Private letters and memoranda of persons in all the States.
Manuscript Diary of Charles Bonney.
Pamphlets and other bound extracts on the subject of exploration.