SAFETY OF THE NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION.
Brisbane, Nov, 24. Telegrams from Cooktown state that the members of the geographical parts are all safe, having arrived at Cooktown lasi night in the steamer Bonito. Sydney, Noy.' 24. Further details is regard to the saf return of the Australian Society’s Expedition state that aftn ascending the Fly River as far as it wa possible to do so in boats, they took t< a whale boat, and proceeded some 80 miles up the stream. They then encountered a numerous body of native whom they described as a flue rac although exceedingly shy and hostile t strangers. Captain Everell states I found it impossible to hold any friendh communication with them, and ti> jungle was so dense that he had treturn without being able to penetra’ any distance into the interior of tl country.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1433, 26 November 1885, Page 1
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