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We have passed
numerous and recent tracks of natives to-day; they are still burning the
country at some distance from the coast.
[_Note._ The memorandum left by Stuart on top of the Central Mountain
runs as follows:]
John McDouall Stuart and party consisting of two men and himself arrived
from Adelaide in the Centre of Australia on Saturday evening the twenty
first day of April 1860, and have built this cone of stones and raised
this flag to commemorate the event, on top of Mount Sturt; the centre is
about two miles South South West at a small gum creek where there is a
tree marked facing the south.
(Signed) JOHN MCDOUALL STUART (Leader)
WILLIAM DARTON KEKWICK
BENJAMIN HEAD.
_21st April 1860,_
_Centre of Australia._
The name of the Central Mountain appears in the published journal as
_Stuart_. This is probably due to a mistake of the publisher's, which
remained uncorrected, as Stuart was very ill when his journal was
printed.


FROM WEST TO EAST. I. ALONG THE BIGHT
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