I hoped to have found water near the spot, in a sharp turn in the river which I had not examined, and near which, on the day before, I had seen two Emus, under a bank covered with brigalow scrub.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
We saw no natives; nor were even kangaroos or Emus to be seen, as formerly, any longer inhabitants of these parts.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
Had two or three Emus come near enough, I do not think that Hector and I could have resisted the temptation to use our rifles.
"Adventures in Australia"
W.H.G. Kingston