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Spinifex and Sand

by David Wynford Carnegie

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Dedication — Introduction
  3. 3Part I — Early Days in Coolgardie
  4. 4Chapter II — “Hard Up”
  5. 5Chapter III — A Miner on Bayley’s
  6. 6Part II — First Prospecting Expedition
  7. 7Chapter II — In Unknown Country
  8. 8Chapter III — From Mount Shenton to Mount Margaret
  9. 9Part III — Second Prospecting Expedition
  10. 10Chapter II — Granite Rocks, “Namma Holes,” and “Soaks”
  11. 11Chapter III — A Fresh Start
  12. 12Chapter IV — A Camel Fight
  13. 13Chapter V — Gold at Lake Darlôt
  14. 14Chapter VI — Alone in the Bush
  15. 15Chapter VII — Sale of Mine
  16. 16Part IV — Mining
  17. 17Part V — The Outward Journey
  18. 18Chapter II — Members and Equipment of Expedition
  19. 19Chapter III — The Journey Begins
  20. 20Chapter IV — We Enter the Desert
  21. 21Chapter V — Water at Last
  22. 22Chapter VI — Woodhouse Lagoon
  23. 23Chapter VII — The Great Undulating Desert of Gravel
  24. 24Chapter VIII — A Desert Tribe
  25. 25Chapter IX — Dr. Leichardt’s Lost Expedition
  26. 26Chapter X — The Desert of Parallel Sand-Ridges
  27. 27Chapter XI — From Family Well to Helena Spring
  28. 28Chapter XII — Helena Spring
  29. 29Chapter XIII — From Helena Spring to the Southesk Tablelands
  30. 30Chapter XIV — Death of Stansmore
  31. 31Chapter XV — Wells Exploring Expedition
  32. 32Chapter XVI — Kimberley
  33. 33Chapter XVII — Aboriginals at Hall’s Creek
  34. 34Chapter XVIII — Preparations for the Return Journey
  35. 35Part V
  36. 36Part VI — The Journey Home
  37. 37Chapter II — Sturt Creek and “Gregory’s Salt Sea”
  38. 38Chapter III — Our Camp on the “Salt Sea”
  39. 39Chapter IV — Desert Once More
  40. 40Chapter V — Stansmore Range to Lake MacDonald
  41. 41Chapter VI — Lake MacDonald to the Deep Rock-Holes
  42. 42Chapter VII — The Last of the Ridges of Drift Sand
  43. 43Chapter VIII — Woodhouse Lagoon Revisited
  44. 44Chapter IX — Across Lake Wells to Lake Darlôt
  45. 45Chapter X — The End of the Expedition
  46. 46Appendix

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