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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia, by William John Wills This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria. From The Journals And Letters Of William John Wills. Author: William John Wills Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #5816] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUCCESSFUL EXPLORATION *** Produced by Sue Asscher and Robert Prince SUCCESSFUL EXPLORATION THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA, FROM MELBOURNE TO THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA. FROM THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM JOHN WILLS. EDITED BY HIS FATHER, WILLIAM WILLS. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, PUBLISHER IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY. 1863. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, K.G., ETC., ETC., ETC. BY HIS GRACE'S FAITHFUL SERVANT, WILLIAM WILLS. JANUARY, 1863. PREFACE. A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials for an extended biography. But the important position held by my late son, as second in command in what is now so well-known as the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition across the Island Continent of Australia; the complicated duties he undertook as Astronomer, Topographer, Journalist, and Surveyor; the persevering skill with which he discharged them, suggesting and regulating the march of the party through a waste of eighteen hundred miles, previously untrodden by European feet; his courage, patience, and heroic death; his self-denial in desiring to be left alone in the desert with scarcely a hope of rescue, that his companions might find a chance for themselves;--these claims on public attention demand that his name should be handed down to posterity in something more than a mere obituary record, or an official acknowledgment of services. A truthful, though brief, memoir of my son's short career, may furnish a stimulating example, by showing how much can be accomplished in a few years, when habits of prudence and industry have been acquired in
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