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Hume and Hovell
EXPEDITION...BEST BITS FROM HOVELL'S JOURNAL
13th November 1824.
The weather has been hot and sticky all day.
Travelling has been tiring us and especially the cattle. The only bearable
time to travel is at sunrise. It appears there hasn't been any rain for a long time.
The ground is very dry, but the grass looks healthy. The creeks are nearly dry.
We had to travel more than two miles even after sundown, just for water.
14th November 1824.
(Sunday) We did not go on today because the cattle
were too tired from yesterday's travelling. Some of the men went hunting
and caught a big kangaroo. It was the first we had seen in four or five days.
15. HAMILTON HUME. 16. WILLIAM HOVELL
This photograph of Hamilton The sketch of ''the late Captain
Hume, taken not long before his death, W.H.Hovell, an Australian Explorer''
was published in 1873 as frontpiece was published in The Sydney Mail
to the second edition of his brief statement. on 20 November, 1875, a week after
his obituary appeared.
