Spinifex and Sand

Introduction Part 1: early days in Coolgardie 1. Early days in the colony 2. 'Hard up' 3. A miner on Bayley's Part 2: first prospecting expedition 1. The rush to Kurnalpi - we reach Queen Victoria Spring 2. The unknown country 3. From Mount Shenton to Mount Margaret Part 3: second prospecting expedition 1. The joys of portable condensers 2. Granite rocks, 'namma-holes,' and 'soaks' 3. A fresh start 4. A camel fight 5. Gold at Lake Darlot 6. Alone in the bush 7. Sale of mine Part 4: mining 1. Quartz reefing and dry-blowing Part 5: the outward journey 1. Previous explorers in the interior of Western Australia 2. Members and equipment of expedition 3. The journey begins 4. We enter the desert 5. Water at last 6. Woodhouse Lagoon 7. The great undulating desert of gravel 8. A desert tribe 9. Dr Leichhardt's lost expedition 10. The desert of parallel sand-ridges 11. From Family Well to Helena Spring 12. Helena Spring 13. From Helena Spring to the Southesk Tablelands 14. Death of Stansmore 15. Wells Exploring Expedition 16. Kimberley 17. Aboriginals at Hall's Creek 18. Preparations for the return journey Appendix to part 5: some native weapons and ceremonial implements Part 6: the journey home 1. Return journey begins 2. Sturt Creek and 'Gregory's Salt Sea' 3. Our camp on the 'Salt Sea' 4. Desert once more 5. Stansmore Range to Lake Macdonald 6. Lake Macdonald to the deep rock-holes 7. The last of the ridges of drift sand 8. Woodhouse Lagoon revisited 9. Across Lake Wells to Lake Darlot 10. The end of the expedition Appendix