Charles Sturt

“The vegetable kingdom was almost annihilated, and the feathered tribes had fled.”

“We were in the centre of a continent, in a desert, from which it seemed impossible we could escape.”

“I still hoped to find a better country, and to see the river on which we were turn to the westward.”

“The men had been on half a pound of flour since the month of April, and their clothes were falling to pieces.”

“Let any man lay the map of Australia before him... he will not find a single feature on the whole line of coast to attract his notice.”

“My eye never closed upon the scene before me... we were, at length, on the banks of a noble river.”

“God, in his mercy, had rewarded our perseverance and our labours.”

“The country in the neighbourhood of the marshes is really beautiful, but it is the beauty of a serpent.”