Chapter II.
THE OUTFIT.
BY reference to the accompanying map it will be BY seen that my projected journey started from Sydney and proceeded north through Newcastle, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Normanton and Burketown. Thence around the Gulf of Carpentaria, across the Roper River to Port Darwin, through the heart of Australia from north to south via Alice Springs, and Oodnadatta to Adelaide. Then south by east, through Mount Gambier, Hamilton, and Warrnambool to Melbourne, then north by east, through Albury to Sydney, a circuit of over eight thousand miles.
Now a journey of this kind cannot be undertaken without a lot of forethought and careful preparation. Under ordinary circumstances the amount of luggage one takes is decided by the distance to be traversed and the time to be taken; the bulk does not weigh on one's mind and it will be noticed that the less experience the traveller has the greater the amount of
