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Party left Newcastle port in Moreton Bay steamer for overland expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington
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Party in Stroud awaiting Dr. Leichhardt to join them to start for the interior. Wore red shirts and cabbage tree hats
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Passed through Armidale on 6th January in 'high spirits and not to be stayed by rain or floods'
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Wrote letter to settler saying that he had found magnificent country with beautiful grass and water and thought he might possibly never return
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Care of Captain King
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Unclaimed letter held in General Post Office, Sydney
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Included in those accompanying Ludwig Leichhardt when he left Sydney on 13th August 1844 was Harry Brown, an aboriginal from Newcastle
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Visited Ebenezer coal mine
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Party awaiting Leichhardt to come from Tahlee to Stroud. Grumbling about one of the men who had gone to tune a piano instead of saddling donkeys
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Correspondence re the supposed fate of Leichhardt
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Expedition in search of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt failed to find trace of him. Found 2 camping places and travelled 300 miles beyond Surat. Reported that no further hope could be entertained of finding Leichhardt
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Hovenden Hely found indications that Leichhardt's party had been murdered by blacks at or near Bunderabilla Creek
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Account of Hovenden Hely's search for missing explorer Ludwig Leichhardt
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Hovenden Hely to leave Sydney on the steamer on 1st January to commence his expedition to search for Leichhardt To join his party at Raymond Terrace. Party consisted of Mr. Horsburgh, Captain Anderson, Mr. Drysdale who was with Sir Thomas Mitchell in his last expedition and who will act as surgeon and botanist; Mr. Edgar and two experienced exploring hands and two natives one of whom was Brown who accompanied Dr. Leichhardt to Port Essington
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NEWCASTLE. The Last of the Newcastle Tribe. " Brown," the aboriginal who accompanied the lamented Leichardt in his overland expedition to Port Essington, and who subsequently formed one of Heley's party despatched by Government to endeavour to ascertain the fate of Leichardt in his attempt to reach Swan River, died at Newcastle on Saturday, 17th inst. About eight weeks ago the deceased, being very much in-toxicated, got burnt in the most frightful manner in the Black's camp on the beach. From that time till his death his Sufferings were most intense. The deceased was a general favonrite with the public at Newcastle, especially with those who, like myself, knew him from boy hood 20 years ago. No fishing, boating, shooting or oystering party was complete unless poor Brown formed one. Brown was also in some respects a public character. It will then, I am sure, be satisfactory to the public to know that during his illness he was attended by Mr.and Mrs. Rinker with as much tenderness as if he was their own son. It was at one time thought that good nursing would bring him through, but he fretted and pined very much for the company of some of his sable brethren. He was however the "last of his race" at Newcastle, and unfortunately during his illness no blackfellows visited the city. Next to the approval of our own conscience, the good opinion of our neighbours and fellow-citizens is generally the most valued by all right minded men. It will therefore no doubt be a pleasing satisfaction to Mr. and Mrs. Rinker to know that their charitable and humane attention tn this poor aboriginal is duly appreciated by the public at Newcastle.
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Reminiscences of Australia - Hints on the Squatters Life by Christopher Pemberton Hodgson
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Reminiscences of Christopher Hodgson......On the 1st of October, 1844, a party of ten men under the direction of Dr. Leichhardt left Jimbour, the last inhabited station of the Darling Downs district, for the purpose of exploring a route to connect that part of Australia with the most S. W. point called Port Essington. The party consisted of Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt, leader and naturalist; Mr. Roper, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Gilbert, an ornithologist connected with Mr. Gould; Master J. Murphy, Philips, Caleb, an American Black; Charlie a Bathurst native; Midge Brown a Newcastle ditto, and myself. After a series of losses, delays and difficulties the scantiness of our supply and the want of animal food necessitated the Doctor to reduce the number of his party; as all of course were still anxious to proceed, there was a difficulty in fixing upon any individually; in the end however it was resolved by mutual consent that I should return accompanied by the American blackfellow Caleb. After an absence of five weeks I reached
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Sir Edward Paget 1842.....
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Passenger on the Sir Edward Paget from Cork
