THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1896, Page 2

THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —ln la«t night's paper I noticed an article about Sandy M'Pherson's death. It is hard to think he can be the last of the Burke and Wills iii- fated expedition. Surely they are not all dead yet. It seems but a short time ago when it was fresh tome. There is a mistake about the four men leaving the main camp at Menindie (not Meudindoc) ou the Darling. This was their last place of civilisation, such as it was. The main camp from whence Burke, Wills, King, and Gray left was on Cooper's Creek —a good deal further West —aud it was there where the first three returned, only too late ; and it is there where the tree with D.I.G. carved on is. Then again, the tracks that far would have been very plain. As I was a stockman out there twenty nine years ago, I have seen them often, and that was some years after the expedition; but, of course, the country was little known and not stocked then. It was our party that reported the tribe that practised circumcision, which caused some talk about " Tho lost tribe," etc. Nardoo is not a food for a white man as he cannot digest it. It is like an emu digesting wire nails —too dry. Nardoo is a grass seed which the blacks make into a sort of bread, but on the waterholes there is an immense quantity of wild fowl, such as pelicans, ibis, and ducks. I am, etc, G. B. Bkai-'ord. Foiding Horse Bazaar, Oct. 6th.