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Durack – Emanuel Expedition
For further information on this exploring
expedition see W. Aust. Hist. Soc – Jour & Procs.
vol 2, pt XII, p.5, where a list of the personnel
is given, and light thrown on their method
of getting there. A résumé of this information is here given
They sailed from Sydney Jy 1882 to the Cambridge.
Landed their horses & equipment & after some
weeks' travelling inland reached the Ord
River, naming on their way the Durack
Pentacost (Sic) Dunham & Bow Rivers, all of which
empty into the Gulf. Travelling west from district
now known as Hall's Creek they reached Beagle
Bay where they caught the schooner Mary Smith
& landed at Fremantle on Jan 15 of 1883.
They were convinced of the good qualities of the Kimberley District for pastoral purposes.
Personnel of Expedition
Michael J. Durack (leader)
T (Thomas?) Kilfoyle (2nd in command)
John Pentacost (surveyor & geologist)
Sidney?}
Sydney?} Emanuel
Thomas Horan
James Josey (Also 2 native boys)
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In Nov. 2023 I corrected from what was "Durham" to the correct and as written in the diary, "Dunham" ('& Bow Rivers') also corrected "Kimberly" to the correct and as written in the diary, to "Kimberley," with an "e" - Note that they named the Dunham River after "Father Dunham," friend of the Duracks and there is a photo of him in, and a 'version' of this expedition, can be found in Mary Durack's "Kings in Grass Castles" also in "Tom & Jack" by Geraldine Byrne in a book about the Kilfoyles, Tom & son Jack - AB for KHS 16 XI 2023.
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