CONTENTS.

Chap.

I. [Sand and Scrub]
II. [A Strange Road]
III. [A Mysterious Procession]
IV. [The Devil's Tracks]
V. [A Lifeless Swamp]
VI. [The Burning Mountain at Last]
VII. [Cannibals]
VIII. [The Fight in the Cave]
IX. [An Exciting Discovery]
X. [The Missing Expedition]
XI. [Stuart's Journal]
XII. [Charlie's Adventure]
XIII. [The Trip South]
XIV. [In the Spinifex Desert]
XV. [The Fate of Columbus]
XVI. [The Slaughter Chamber]
XVII. [A Hopeless Situation]
XVIII. [The Ancient Australians]
XIX. [Charlie Falls Sick]
XX. [A Further Discovery]
XXI. [The Final Departure]
XXII. [The Gold Reef Discovered]
XXIII. [A Solitary Camp]
XXIV. [More Dry Creeks]
XXV. [The Last of the Cannibals]
XXVI. [A False Alarm]
XXVII. [Home Again]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[They find the Devil's Track on the Rock-plain]

[The Death of Dr. Leichhardt in the Desert]

[Morton and his Party examine the Slaughter-chamber]

[The Last of the Bloodthirsty Warlattas,] Frontis.

[Route Map]