I had the good fortune to see them more than once while they were in progress, and was present when they were made the subject of a paper read by Mr. sydney B. J. Skertchly before the Linnean Society, Mr. Tylor being then too ill to read it himself.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
If it was him that was lost in the Bush in New South Wales, when I was at sydney, why, of course that chap's name was the same.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
He had promised himself and Dicky a great reception on returning to sydney, and was perhaps disappointed.
"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