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Issue Details: First known date: 1890... 1890 Lost Leichhardt
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Negative assessment of Leichhardt's achievements as an explorer is introduced by praise of A.C. Gregory, W. O. Hodgkinson, Edmund Kennedy, and Burke and Wills with expressions of regret at loss of life. Meston accuses Leichhardt of stealing food on the Peak Downs expedition of 1846-1847, of being 'a mournful failure' as a leader, and of living like most scientists, 'wrapped up in cold, selfish isolation.'

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This article prompted correspondence in reply by John Mann, who had accompanied Leichhardt to Peak Downs (Brisbane Courier 6 January 1891; Queenslander 17 January 1891); and by Richard Bennett, who met Leichhardt in 1846 at the home of Robert Lynd (Queenslander 16 May 1891 and Brisbane Courier 25 May 1891).
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    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 20 December 1890 Z1103522 1890 newspaper issue 1890 pg. 11, 14-15
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