nd north and west of Elder Creek. Since then
he made another journey with the same object in view, but encountered
extremely dry weather and underwent many hardships. Hann was born in
Wiltshire, in 1846, and came to Victoria with his parents at a very early
age. He spent most of his life squatting in North Queensland, where he
held several station properties.

In the first year of the present century the Western Australian
Government followed up Hann's explorations north of the King Leopold
Range, by a larger and better-equipped party instructed to make a
thorough examination of the region. It was placed in charge of F.S.
Brockman, a Government surveyor, who had with him C. Crossland as second,
F. House as naturalist, and Gibbs Maitland as geologist.

Brockman was born in Western Australia in 1857, was educated at Bishop's
College, and after a spell in the bush on his father's properties, he
joined a Government Survey camp, as cadet. In 1879 he started as surveyor
on his own account. From 1882 to 1897 he was employed by the Lands and
Survey Department in many parts of Western Australia from Cambridge Gulf
in the north to the Great Bight in the south. At the time when he was
selected to lead the Kimberley expedition, he was Controller of the Field
Survey Staff.

Brockman was most successful in securing full information of this
long-secluded region; of its geographical, geological, and botanical
details. Many interesting photographs were obtained of the different
physical features and of the aborigines and their modes of life; amongst
them being views of rock paintings similar to the mysterious scenes
noticed by Grey during his first expedition to the Glenelg River.

[Illustration. Aboriginal Rock Painting on the Glenelg River. From a
photograph by F.S. Brockman.]

The party left Wyndham on Cambridge Gulf and proceeded first southwards
and then to the westward to the Charnley River, which had been discovered
by Frank Hann. The tributary waters of the Glenelg and Prince Regent
Rivers, and the tidal rivers that flow into Collier and Doubtful Bays
were also visited, and Brockman traced the Roe River from its source to
its outflow in Prince Frederick Harbour. The Moran River was discovered,
and its whole course traced to the mouth in the same inlet. The head
waters of the King Edward River were discovered at the watershed; and
this river was again met lower down and its course traced to its exit.
Portions of the shores o