HIDDEN HEART OF AUSTRALIA
“UTTERLY DESOLATE, ARID AND DEAD”
CAPTAIN HURLEY’S JOURNEY
(United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.)
(Rec. November 4, 5.5 p.m.)
Wyndham, November 4.
Captain Hurley has inspected his engine and will begin the ocean flight at midnight to-night. AU’is well with the crew.
Captain Hurley’s narrative of the flight across Central Australia includes the following passage: “It has ever been my ambition to see and know something of the hidden heart of Australia. Now I have seen a track eighty miles wide on either side of our 2200-mile course. I honestly say I am bitterly disappointed. The major portion is utterly desolate, arid and dead, such as to fill one with sadness. Only once before have I seen more dreafiy plains, and they were in the tormented landscapes of a hideous nightmare.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 35, 5 November 1928, Page 11
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