An Australian Search Party

In my former narrative I described our exploration of the Herbert

River, lying at the south end of Rockingham Channel, with its

fruitless issue; and I now take up the thread of my story from that

point, thinking it can hardly fail to be of interest to the reader, not

only as regards the wild nature of the country traversed, but also as

showing the anxiety manifested by the inhabitants of these remote

districts to clear up the fate of their unhappy brethren. I may also

here mention, for the information of such of my readers as may not

have read the preceding portions of the narrative, that Cardwell is

the name of a small township situated on the shores of Rockingham

Bay; and that Townsville is a settlement some hundred miles further

south, known also as Cleveland Bay.