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2 6 y separately published work icon The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe : Explorer Emily Caroline Creaghe , 1883 (Manuscript version)x401655 Z1339313 1883 single work diary Describes her journey from Sydney in the ship Corea with calls at Queensland ports, reaching Thursday Island 9 Jan. 1883, arrival at Flinders telegraph station 14 Jan. 1883, and the journey from Normanton to Port Darwin, sailing from Port Darwin for Sydney 22 Aug. 1883 on the steamer Feilung. Gives details of i.a., meetings with Aborigines, hardships of the exploring party and the movements of its several members, the countryside and the towns and stations visited. The account ends 5 Sept. 1883 before the Feilung reached Brisbane, and includes lists of baby clothes, recipes, etc. The collection also includes part of a letter from the author at Katherine telegraph station to her father, Major G. C. Robinson, 12 July 1883, and a processed transcript of most of the diary, with excerpts from newspaper articles and maps of the exploring party's route. (Libraries Australia)
1 2 y separately published work icon Sailing with Flinders : The Journal of Seaman Samuel Smith Samuel Smith , Peter Monteath (editor), North Adelaide : Corkwood Press , 2002 Z1040101 2002 single work diary travel
2 y separately published work icon Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872 to 1874 Ernest Giles , Melbourne : McCarron, Bird , 1875 21492007 1875 single work diary travel The diary of Ernest Giles chronicles his second exploratory expedition into Central Australia. In his concluding remarks, Giles states: 'My exploration has in its main objects been unsuccessful, and my most sanguine hopes have been destroyed; as for years I had cherished the thought of being the first to cross this continent from east to west'. Giles graciously concedes victory in this to his fellow explorer, Colonel Warburton.
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