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three two one

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5 54.

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60

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eight seven six five

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thank you

your wells

sure Wills sorry

miles away

Charlie's baked we're all baked

see what you can do for him

he's gonna be still a little sits in

your belly

my belly thinks my throat's cut

it's all right Charlie

oh

my God

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see God speed you Mr Buck God speed and

bless you all

right

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my Lord ladies gentlemen good on you Mr

Burke people of Victoria

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thanks to your efforts and the

assistance of the committee of the Royal

Society

under Mr Ambrose kite here

we are ready to meet any contingency

even if it be to cross the Inland sea if

indeed there is one

I'll not say it's a race

but you all know

that McDonald's Stewart has left that

late on his way to the Gulf

I'll give him one

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he'll run to each

other right he wants I'll promise you

this

we'll give it a good calls

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and we'll all pull together

and it's a racist to be I'll win it

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now make sure you're back by Christmas

of course I will

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young whales

yes your new surveyor yes

yes

if you ask his advice take it but he'll

never offer it

will follow you to damnation first I

know you sir I'm his father God speech

you Mr Burke thank you sir

20th of August 1860. we are quite aside

our Expedition consists of 28 horses 27

camels 19 men six blackheads 21 tons of

equipment and supplies in a little

matter of three thousand miles to go

our progress is of necessity very slow

and the Volkswagen broke its shaft

before we had traveled 10 miles

to Burke is greatly troubled by the fact

that mcdoul Stewart's second attempt to

reach the guard has the advantage of

starting further north from Adelaide and

his party is much smaller faster and

more experienced than we are

what can't be done another mob love

Burke

I'd be happier with the sound a Man In

Charge I'd be happy with George

landell's there's no four Landers

can't be done Sir William

Works never been outside the Central

District

we're spending thousands of pounds we're

asking him to go when no man's gone

before and get there first

and Burke can't find his way from

beechworth to wangaratta 20 miles on a

good road and he loses his way

you don't know Burke gentlemen

not like I know him

I've seen that look in his eyes

you go like the devil

and he'll be in at the kill

Mark me gentlemen

if there's land out there worth pissing

on

we'll be the first to know it

ours is the first expedition to make use

of camels and we hope they will enable

us to succeed where others fail

because of our slow progress Mr Burke

was not keen to stop at any of the gold

mining towns we passed on the way

I fancy none of the diggers had ever

seen a candle before

attention to the progress of the party

prevented me from attending to my

scientific studies until we had made

camp at the end of each day

I was unable to attempt some

astronomical observations and catch up

with my diary in field books

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amazing

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all right

though

Oh My Darling

my dear oh Mr Burke what are you doing

here

marry me

I'm supposed to be halfway to

Carpenteria or at least as far as this

give me your promise foreign

Irishman too my father would skin me

alive

you are a foolish empty-headed little

creature who was too much scent

but I must have you

fully

yes

yes Mr Williams

yes King what is this

similar to

one of the sepoys

what's the matter with him

it's his faith sir he counted pork only

mutton and that he must Slaughter in his

own way

I see

but where's Mr Burke

he's not in his tent sir

Mr landauz

he's drunk sir

dead to the world

I see

what shall I tell him sir

um

similar

well you'll have to go

we'll have to wait for Mr Burke's

decision but I imagine he'll have to go

right there

good night sir

one moment

you were in India venture

yes sir

I was at Khan Paul with Colonel suit ah

and I was at peshwar

the day we tied 40 men to the barrels of

the field guns and blew them to pieces

with blank charges

he was war surely it was mutiny

it was their contrary

and this country

who does it belong to

does this country belong to the black

fellas

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good night sir

good night

Gregory turn back

start turn back

the whole store turned back

they all turned back

only like heart did not

he was never seen again

poor mad like art

okay

I simply do

I intend to cross this country

you will I know

laughs go to the Gulf of Carpenteria in

the North

all the way

back again

well my darling

when I return

when my name is on everybody's lips

when all of Melbourne is

commercial

oh Mr Burke

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can see that the Volkswagen will not

carry a camel I might remind you Mr

Burke that I have jurisdiction over the

camels they're in my care then you will

have to swim as well

all right let it go 31st of August 1860

11 days and 130 miles out of Melbourne

we encountered our first major obstacle

the Murray

thank you

keep it going

well he's Irish it's raining

I do not thinking

what's your back what do you mean

quickly you can mark my words Mr

Williams I know the type I've seen them

before in The Punisher Glory Boys

you think he's An Officer and a

Gentleman don't you and he's all

bullying bounce

all of you

especially

delete you alive

hey

let's see one go and have a look

hey

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it's still right

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all right I've known bill right or my

life

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my girl like I shot it what about you

though

I'd certainly give it a lot of thought

a bit better than sitting around

listening

Tom Payne's Pub in Indy on the darling

this is the edge of the known world

it has taken us two months slow going to

March 500 miles

and still we have no word of our great

rival look duels to it

Mr Burke has picked up with a local man

called right he continues to quarrel

with Mr landell's

things cannot go on as they are

dragging our feet

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Stuart's gonna bolt it out of sight

I'll never catch it

'll get anywhere after three

there's too many others

it's a trouble

okay I'm here

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please

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it was my grandmother

oh Mr Burke

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it's how I adore you

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gentlemen

this is Mr Wright

he knows the country like the back of

his hand

here Mr Gray will accompany the advanced

party as far as Cooper's Creek

it's a terrible bloody stretch of ground

Mr Wills

oh Mr Wills won't mind that William

the English welcome hardship don't they

Wills

they like to suffer nobody likes to

suffer Mr Burke oh I have seen it in his

eye

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Yes sold it you've sold the rum I have

what's left of it you're bloody mad

steady Mr Landau you're raving you've

already done the lime juice at Swan hill

now the rum we were top heavy

I would remind you Mr Burke that I have

charge of the camels

it was I who traveled to peshawaren from

Peshawar to the Afghan markets to buy

them I drove them down to Karachi I

shipped them to Melbourne I have spent

nine months on the most intimate

acquaintance with them and I undertook

to serve under you despite the best

advice of educated men who wouldn't

trust you to find your way from

Beachwear to wangaratta I came on the

express understanding that the camels

were in my charge I know them I know

what they want from Mr Burke what Mr

Lando's Forum you plant a seller for 10

Shillings a barrel eight

eight

I mean to cross this country Mr

landell's

I mean to be the first white man to do

it

and I mean to walk every step of the way

with whosoever of you poor lost souls

are good enough to keep up with me

and you say

I do as you please that's rich oh that's

rich that is I'm gonna tell you

something Mr Burke I don't think it

obviously hasn't dawned on you yet

have you any idea why honest Ambrose

kite put this thundering great oath in

charge of this Expedition hey

because he was chasing after the Harlot

from The Princess Theater and kite

wanted a clear run at her

King hit Mr Burke

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21st of October

departed in India after splitting the

Expedition leading most of our equipment

in stores to be brought up later

our party now consists of nine men

fifteen horses and 16 camels

in my work I find camels much better

than riding on Horseback I sit on the

back portion of the saddle behind the

hump and pack my instruments in front I

can thus ride on keeping my journals and

making calculations and he'd only

stopped to take precise bearings

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oh

come on

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um

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everybody

all right

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gonna go

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the blacks call it the mother of all

creation

fits like a glove will not stop

why we've got water

all right and it's foul we could boil it

it's a bit like a church Mr Wills

spot like this

they might take a dim view of us

stopping here

that doesn't mean much to me a crafty

lot

never know what they might do next

what are you talking about well go on Mr

King

I'm easy

we're not stop we'll go on

we're going

oh yeah

very well Mr Burke

come on

you God

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is there anybody hurt I don't think so

check your packs

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nothing much broken

get those horses

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hey

God

here she comes he goes down get them

down

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he was killed at your table

the Danube

7th of July

1854.

first white man killed in the Russian

campaign first British officer anyway

I'd have been there myself

but I missed the boat

James Thomas Burke

Jamie

I died a hero Mr Wells

a Fool's mission

he led the assault himself

he was

the first man out of the boats

knowing he was doomed

two dozen Russians to cut him down

he took eight of them with him

they counted 33 wounds on him

at Lance

bullet holes

33

and his head

severed from his body

glorious death Mr Rose

glorious lesson

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and I have asked Mr Wright to return

tomorrow to manindi

that's 200 miles

he will secure the stars and bring the

main party on up to Cooper's Creek

now if any of your laricans

have a mind to go back with Mr Right

now is the time to say so

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latitude 22 and a quarter degrees

temperature

120 degrees Fahrenheit I've not found

water for three days we still have 80

gallons strapped from the kennels

but we must become more frugal than we

had been

surprisingly the camels have more

difficulty negotiating the sand dunes

than the horses due to their seeming

inability to climb steep slopes

we have often to travel around hilly

sections rather than take a more direct

line

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I have not met a man more determined

physical exhaustion does not seem to be

an ailment from which he suffers

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Wednesday the 11th of November 1860

latitude 21 degrees

to our immense relief with only four

gallons left in our water containers we

arrived at Cooper's Creek at 3 15 PM it

hardly the creek we were expecting it

would be more accurately described as a

river

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eyes

you're not coming in Mr wigs

of yourself

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my face

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thank you

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guys no more

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we should be back in three months

or at the most good luck in running

we'll be back in a month and a half

what is this

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right here

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I shall depend on you to wait here at

the Depot until we return

Mr I should be up from an India with Dr

Becker in the main party in a couple of

days

you watch out for the blacks

should build that Stockade and if any of

them give you any trouble you're my hot

bottom

line hasn't hinted

you have good German

a few words

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take all this yourself

leave Charlie he's tools he'll let you

down

Charlie

he's no older than I am he's afraid sir

he told me so I know him

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come on I can't do it

rides to you but I can't do it

I need someone I can depend on till Mr

Wright gets here

and you are the best man I've got come

on

is that clear

you may depend on it sir I'll be here

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I can see it's fish

watch him

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you can't trust him you can't give him

an inch

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clicks

hmm

I am determined to proceed with the

height of the summer

but no Line open to my rear no doctor

it's Madness

it's folly

that's what a man like Gregory will say

for the whole world will say if I fail

or wrong-headed Irishman who lost his

way from Beach West to angoretta

but if I succeed

in

what do you think

one dash to the Gulf

well I I think it's a bad bargain

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it's a big risk

that's why you left Devon that's why I

left Galway to take a big risk

what else are we to do

sit on our backsides

for three months

waiting for a change in the weather

I'll not do it

I'll not sit here swatting flies while

that little drunken assima Scotsman

beats me to the Gulf

if we we should establish a base camp

here

at the creek

we should uh we should wait for Mr

Wright to come up from an indie

it's in dispatches back to Melbourne

and

survey the country to the northeastern

that would be the prudent thing to do

those were our instructions

you'll have your instructions I have

mine

survey what you like

app what you like

but my instructions were to get there

first

it's 1500 miles to the gothambach

if we're lucky

if it rains to the north and I think it

will

we could be there in back in three

months

cool

fine

three

at the most

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cheer up Mr Brown

you're the best man I've got

good luck Mr bills thank you

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Sunday the 15th of December 1860.

Billy having been shot and our reports

finished the advanced party numberings

to Burke Mr Gray John King and myself

depart today from Cooper's Creek for the

Gulf

from this point on we must write our own

map

we carry supplies sufficient for three

months March calculated at half rations

we will have to supplement our diet with

what we can find along the way

we're cutting it fine

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the harshness of this land is quite

deceptive

when one talks of desert one imagines

the rolling Sand Hills of Egypt such as

we encountered on the way up to Cooper's

Creek

the desert we now found ourselves in is

quite different

the jagged granite rocks are extremely

angular and play Havoc with the tender

footpiles of the camels

the temperatures are regularly over 100

degrees

water is very scarce or almost

non-existent

we are traveling Northwest by North

have a ground that is so honeycombed by

the hulls of rats

but the camels are continually in danger

of falling

like hair lips I'm all right

so far then

I'm not suffering I assure you not yet

Mr Wells

but you may expect to

even look forward to it

boy

all right

gentlemen

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okay

tired

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perhaps

a little

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you look tired

yes well I lost a compass love you now

do you have another yes but does it have

north south east and west on it yes of

course it dialed in

have you seen these

look

look

seashells

Gregory was right

and stirred

he dreamed of an inland scene

and he found this fearful desert but he

was right

years ago

millions of years ago this

was the seabed

colossal reptiles lived and died here

ichthyosaurus Plesiosaurus and herds of

mosasaurus played on its Shores

you need not worry Mr bird

I will not be the wonderful behind

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we don't eat

you don't drink

stay up half the night

with your books

carry too much

to make things hard on yourself

I need my instruments

I have my observations to make

only this evening

I observed an eclipse of Jupiter's first

satellite

as I've never been observed from these

latitudes before

I have made assurances to the committee

hang the committee

you must understand me Mr Burnley

my adventure

I do not wish to carve my name on the

map of this country

and nor do I look forward with any

relish to the prospect of leaving my

bones to bleach out here

if I'm mad if

death comes

I hope I shall meet it as it demands

I will be one step behind you as far as

we may go

but it is your wish to conquer this

country

I wish only to see it with my own eyes

take the temperature of the water

97.4 degrees on the Shady Side is the

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glory to the newborn king

well

happy Christmas Mr Beck Merry Christmas

Mr Wells

yesterday

we've had another letter from that

chapter right

after George left promised him 500

pounds

the man's a mongrel pumpkin

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you better give him the go-ahead whoever

he is we can't we will just leave him

sitting there word gets around I can't

have that

mind you now that McDowell Stewart's on

his way back to Adelaide

we're in the clear

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pick for yourself

if the show goes bad if those men burn

up in the desert all you've lost is a

few thousand pounds I'm the one who gets

the blame on the bloody laughingstock

you worry too versus William

you smile too much

and

all these men

chin up Mac it's not thy money it's not

my neck

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mate

oh Buck won't get far this time of year

when I get word from Melbourne only

Wages that's when I'll start to hurry

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thank you

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that's right

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yeah

bloody idiots

fishing game here

but for Christmas day we have launched

12 hours a day seven days a week since

leaving the Cooper four weeks ago

we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn in

the night

the dampness of the atmosphere prevents

any evaporation and gives one helpless

feeling of latitude that is I have never

before experienced

slightest exertion induces instant

Suffocation beaches and mosquitoes all

over us

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thank you

thank you

hey everybody

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good shot

oh really by wolf oh boy

come on sorry

you'll never shift it

we'll give it another try let's just die

here

showcase

trampled all over Mr Wilson's

instruments didn't it wasn't her she's

the mother of them all Charlie a perfect

lady she is

buggies

the golf Charlie just think of it are

you think of it all I can think about it

I'll let us see again

and the traffic go away oh

right

nice

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smells like an old fishing Village

salt water

is the sea

it is salt

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I'll marry her so all the world can see

as promised we all present ourselves

so God bless thee

my lords ladies and gentlemen I give you

Mr and Mrs Robert O'Hara Burke

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this is back

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there's something you must do for me

when we get back it won't take you five

minutes

what's that

you've never seen Miss Julia Matthews

oh yes yes

once or twice at the princess theater

is it the Bohemian girl I think it was

led me and dance that woman up and down

the colony

back and forth across the diggings

making a first class go to myself

thank you

chased her from beechworth to wangaratta

you may have heard

still way I lost my head mister

I didn't deny it I had the young lady's

reputations I think

we've missed a lot of boats in my time

I spent my life arriving late

saying too long

been too often in the wrong place at the

wrong time

but when I return

when my knee

is on everybody's lips

you'll marry

I have a promise

I want you there Jack and my elbow

best man

I have your word on it

okay

that's what my sister calls me

Jack

lucky for my show they'll never forget

look at Billy

he knows where he is Pretty Boy Billy

Billy I'll be higher huh you're happy

are you

you know we are don't you he

Ard why

oh you're famous hey

first across the country

I have your word on that Jack

Yes Man

I have your word as an Englishman

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my word

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we'll have to

I am Johnny and we'll do it in half the

time

we've half the rations

all the way

we know the track

you haven't forgotten it have you

ever we placed the trail

we wrote them up

Billy

pretty

pretty boy

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thank you

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my name's Tom Payne

from malindi

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the best time

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it's a matter with that man we wrote to

him months ago

never got there

it never went you never sent it you

never sent the money

they'll die out there that's relying on

those men at Cooper's Creek and they can

hold on not without Pride what's wrong

wrong is Matthew's uh

bill rightness

he wants to know when he's going to get

his money before he leaves the settle

District

should have gone weeks ago before

Christmas

is lost he's not lost

I'll start there

he'll die

it's usually

you don't care do you

really

do you

you don't care

my dear young lady

or care about the race of those two is

back in Adelaide the races oh that's all

that matters to you you've got no right

to talk to me like that don't drive

every right sir

I'm his wife

and as for you madam

I have one request

in future you'll ask your husband to

stop stuffing grubby little notes under

my dressing room door

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thank you

you ready

foreign

do you ever catch anything no there's no

fish there it's cloning this fish it's a

black sofas fish all the time

then why don't we take it it encourages

them

I don't think they need any

encouragement Herman

where's the right

where is he

should have been here weeks ago

yes the Brick's been gone for three

months

could have gone off some of the darling

and Back Again half a dozen times

where's the devil is he

not coming says who

did go back to bed

you're sick they're all dead Earth

whales a whole lot of them

right never coming up

we're gonna be here forever till we rot

nothing to do nowhere to go but right

off try your Norton it with you it's

Delirious

just shut up I'll have you oh my God

we will wait

three months four months if need be

as long as we must

Mr Burke no come back

who asked you

fear Mr Burke's last link for the world

we will not desert our posture

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Jack Jack

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sorry miles away

Charlie's baked we're all baked Mr bird

no

forgive me Mr Wells it's my belly

belly says my throat

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Monday 25th of March 1861.

the Sandstone can

130 degrees no shade

dizzy

nobody speaks

Mr Burke hasn't said a word for days

we have very little flower

some rice

no pork no fat

no sugar

the camels as they fall

butcher died today

it's 200 miles to Cooper's Creek

all right

three

where's Charlie

he's ill

he's Charming

he hears things

we all hear things

and see things

I don't think he is sad

Charming

Charlie

I'm sorry Mr Wills

I couldn't help it hits my belly I

couldn't stand I'm sorry

you won't report me

you won't tell Mr bird you're telling

yourself

oh

and your hat

I hate watching it

it must be done

oh

We're Men Johnny

we're not dogs

a civilized man

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how much longer Herman

Herman how much longer man I mean till

you're the last man left

or make up your mind how much longer

or make up your bloody mind man

Heaven make up your bloody mind let's

leave

yeah

God love you Billy

happy are we met

happy have we been

do we park

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not as a rule sir now and then you know

I'm gonna go the window

I'm a gutless piece of work

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always was

born gutless

do you see

When you pray

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difficult to say

can't exactly

put it in words it's more like

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have a heart give us a hand for things

like that

not very good with your actual words

don't see here yeah

the old Arc dead

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to say isn't it

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I'm gonna move on

hey

Charlie

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it will cost us a day

you can't take him with us

I can't leave him lying here like a doll

very civilized man

we're old Charlie

I shall miss him

to talk to

I'll take a turn

I'd like to do it

use your breath

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wise

no time for sentimentality

Johnny

at least the tape would be forming the

presence of mine enemies

what day is it

21st of April

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Sunday 21st of April temperature 140

degrees

excruciating pains and legs

Stones so hard they burn through shoe

leather

very nearly there

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all right

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thank you

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we made it

thank you

if

they've found a better spot off the tree

that's what they don't

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party of the Victorian exploring

Expedition leaves this camp today to

return to menindi

I intend to go Southeast from Camp 65 to

get onto our old track near bolu

two of my companions and myself are

quite well

the third Paton has been unable to walk

for the last 18 days

no person has been up here from malindi

person has been up here

no person has been up here from an indie

where was he right

where was your man right

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today

this morning

four months

they left today

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we could drop everything

we'd never catch them

look at us

they're baked

even Charlie's baked but we know their

track

they have 12 horses

and six camels in good working

conditions something might have held

them up delayed them

if not

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it is 400 miles to minindy

precisely

you'll head from Mount hopeless

it's beyond us Gregory did it in seven

days

and we will follow his track the baker

station it is beyond us we will never

make it

what we do

is what I decide

it is a hundred miles more 150 miles

there's no water and there's no feed

wow

we will go by Gregory's track

to pick a station that won't help us

is that clear

that is perfectly clear

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you're going no further

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without Raja we cannot carry water

we have no choice we must turn back

nothing now but the greatest Good

Fortune

can save us all

right

there

you know what they're saying

they're saying the entire expedition was

a political exercise a stunt

they're saying you financed it to

feather your own nest to grab the land

that's not true mother because God is my

witness then tell them

man get out there and tell them

Gentlemen please

it's been since you're going around

gentlemen

try that's what it is come on right well

what is not a word of Truth in it and

I'll sue the first man that prints it

I'll put him in the Poor House are they

dead

who are you answer the question

let me uh

let me ask you a question

where were you in this great Enterprise

at its Beginnings eh did you dig in your

pockets to equip these men

Burke and wills his expedition was the

best equip ever to leave the settled

districts and now they're dying now

you sniff death and you come flocking

like vultures

we just

no plots

there was only ever this

dream

a vision

and a burning ambition to build our

young land so that remains

one more thing gentlemen

Alfred Howard and his men have left

menindi accompanied by Mr William Brown

help he's on the way

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yes

should we dig up the Russians

I can't see the need myself

I've been there five months with all we

want

what do you say

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how much Point busy

questions

what happened

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I am

King

chairs

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yeah

I'm Dr Wills

I'm his father

this is Miss Julia Matthews

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just just for a moment just so they can

see you

so they know what you've done

so they know

you're alive

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thank you

it's his watch

and a letter

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okay

I'm comfortable dear my lords ladies and

gentlemen

I know that I speak for each and every

one of us in this whole tonight

for the citizens of Melbourne the people

of Victoria

indeed

for all the colonies of Australia

when I say to you

well done sir

you honor us all

thank you

excuse us

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Mr John King

it gives me great pleasure to present

you

on behalf of the royal Geographic

Society of London

and his grace the Duke of Newcastle with

this watch

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there's an inscription here

in testimony of your meritorious conduct

during the late Victorian exploring

Expedition under the lamented Mr Burke

and Mr Wills

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your excellencies

ladies and

gentlemen

uh

it affords me much grateful

satisfaction to receive

this watch

in recognition of my services during

the late Victorian expel exploring

Expedition

in these

particulars

your excellencies I simply did my

Duty

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your excellencies ladies and

gentlemen

airport may be much grateful

satisfaction to receive this watch good

argument

good on you Johnny

good on you Johnny

they fought

you see it in the end

uh

there was a fight

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the last of the camels had died on the

way to Baker's station I found hopeless

Raja

at the blacks

a cloth

it put only an old oil cloth

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how do I know why as sandwiches they

didn't tell me

can't trust damage Savages they are lazy

the interest

ing completely mad hey maybe Savages Mr

Burke but they've been living here for

God knows how many thousands of years

how do you think we're gonna do without

them a stolen oil cost an oil cross he

attacked me an oil cloth can you give us

all for loyal cloth good God Mr Burke

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when you're regained your senses

and when I am dead

for we shall die Mr Burke

who shall I think then

who should I thank then

hmm

who shall I thank then

Mr Wells and I went out collecting Nadu

every day

and Mr Burke stayed back at camp

grinding sufficient for our evening meal

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terrible hard work

we did well if we could collect a bag a

piece each day

Mr Willis called the staff of life

but you can't live on it

carved digested

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you [ __ ] more than you ate

come on leave him alone

it's all right

I've written a letter

to my father

and this

is his watch

very well then

but to remember

I have your word

and I know an Englishman never breaks

his word

even an Englishman is mortal

we did well

didn't we Mr Burke

we got there

we did

and I'll never take that away from us

never

or they'll do it again

they'll do it faster

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they'll build roads they will run the

telegraph

clear across the center

we

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change that

we were first

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we wrote the bloody map

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we wrote the bloody map

Charlie Gray died laughing

he asked me to tell you that

tell him I died laughing Johnny

that's what he used to say

we wept the day Charlie died

we all did

we all loved Charlie

well it was Mr Burke the doggy's grave

took him all day

if we hadn't been buried Charlie

if we'd have left him lying there

would have been back at the Coopers on

time

but Mr Burke insisted

will give him a Christian burial he said

oh sure he did things the wrong way

about but he did them his way

of course in life

got my gun in my hand

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my brother Jamie

first white man killed in the Russian

campaign

7th of July

1854

first ran out of the boat

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it was the blacks that saved me

the book never really understood the

blacks

we got it fine

he used to say

we'll call it fine Johnny

and he did that

but he got to the Gulf

and he got there first

he led us all the way

and Mr Wills was one step behind

all the way

oh

we were proud to follow

if they did their part

and theirs was the hard part

if some of you had done your part

they'd be standing here now

and then you'd have seen a show

we'll give them a show Johnny

that's what Mr Burke used to say

we've given my show Johnny

we've given this way our money is worth

we'll give them something

we all give them a show they'll never

forget

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no no

no

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no

no no no no no no no no no no no no no

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