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X PROVIDENCE AT THE GULF July 1845

The wounded party, now down to seven men, finally smelt salt water at the Gulf of Carpentaria. Leichhardt wrote that the first sight of the salt water of the Gulf was welcomed by all of them and they rejoiced at the 'green feed by lagoons' . Near today’s Normanton they enjoyed local food, plants, birds, fish and other marine life. Magpie geese were in abundance. Despite severe injuries that had been sustained by John Roper and John Calvert, they travelled steadily on in a south-westerly direction around the Gulf.

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Leichhardt's 1844-45 route

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