Spinifex and Sand

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• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I - EARLY DAYS IN COOLGARDIE
Early Days In The Colony
“Hard Up”
A Miner On Bayley's

PART II - FIRST PROSPECTING EXPEDITION
The Rush To Kurnalpi—We Reach Queen Victoria Spring
In Unknown Country
From Mount Shenton To Mount Margaret

PART III - SECOND PROSPECTING EXPEDITION
The Joys Of Portable Condensers
Granite Rocks, “Namma Holes,” And “Soaks”
A Fresh Start
A Camel Fight
Gold At Lake Darlôt
Alone In The Bush
Sale Of Mine

PART IV - MINING
Quartz Reefing And Dry-Blowing

PART V - THE OUTWARD JOURNEY
Previous Explorers In The Interior Of Western Australia
Members And Equipment Of Expedition
The Journey Begins
We Enter The Desert
Water At Last
Woodhouse Lagoon
The Great Undulating Desert Of Gravel
A Desert Tribe
Dr. Leichardt's Lost Expedition
The Desert Of Parallel Sand-Ridges
From Family Well To Helena Spring
Helena Spring
From Helena Spring To The Southesk Tablelands
Death Of Stansmore
Wells Exploring Expedition
Kimberley
Aboriginals At Hall's Creek
Preparations For The Return Journey
Appendix To Part V
PART VI - THE JOURNEY HOME
Return Journey Begins
Sturt Creek And “Gregory's Salt Sea”
Our Camp On The “Salt Sea”
Desert Once More
Stansmore Range To Lake MacDonald
Lake MacDonald To The Deep Rock-Holes
The Last Of The Ridges Of Drift Sand
Woodhouse Lagoon Revisited
Across Lake Wells To Lake Darlôt
The End Of The Expedition
APPENDIX

About the Author
David Carnegie returned to England in 1898, was awarded a medal by the Royal Geographic Society and in 1899 was appointed Assistant Resident and Magistrate in Northern Nigeria. On November 27, 1900 while on an expedition to capture a brigand he was shot in the thigh with a poisoned arrow and died minutes later. He is buried at Lokaja, Nigeria and a memorial to his memory is in St. George's Cathedral, Perth.