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Title
Ernest Favenc - Diary of expedition in Northern Territory from Powell's Creek to Daly Waters, May 28 to July 1883
Creator
Ernest Favenc, 1846-1908
Call number
B 879
Level of description
fonds
Date

1883
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
456467
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 2581, frames 119-156 (B 879).
Photocopy : MLMSS 7721. This is a transcription of the original diary at B 879, by Peter Monteath and James Anderson, 2006.
Physical Description
1 book - 0.01 Meters
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Ernest Favenc (1845-1908), explorer, journalist and historian, was born on 21 October 1845 at Walworth, Surrey, England. Educated at the Werderscher Gymnasium in Berlin and at Temple College, Cowley, Oxfordshire, he arrived in Sydney in 1864 where he worked on stations in North Queensland and occasionally wrote for the Queenslander. In 1877 Favenc was selected as a leader, when the Queenslander's proprietors planned an expedition to prove the practicability of a transcontinental railway to Darwin. The publication of his reports won him repute and soon afterwards he settled in Sydney where on 15 November 1880 he married Elizabeth Jane Matthews. He successfully offered the South Australian government a report on the country watered by the Macarthur River. On his return to Sydney Favenc's failure to win a magistracy in the Northern Territory and the approaching centenary of New South Wales inspired him to undertake his first major work `His History of Australian Exploration 1788-1888' -- ADB, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, p. 160
Scope and Content
`The diary records a kind of expedition-within-an-expedition. The larger expedition commenced from Gregory Downs Station in northern Queensland on 14 April 1883. Led by Favenc, its other members were Lindsay Crawford and the recently married couple Emily Caroline Creaghe and Harry Creaghe. Emily Caroline Creaghe kept a diary of the full expedition, recording its delayed beginnings after a sea voyage to Normanton, and then the arduous trekking through often difficult and unfamiliar country, until the party reached the Overland Telegraph Line near Powells Creek on 14 May 1883. In setting off from Powells Creek back toward the east to explore the region of the Macarthur River, Favenc dispensed with the services of the Creaghes. For this shorter expedition he was still accompanied, as his diary reveals, by Lindsay Crawford but now also by a man called Rogers, whom Favenc had met at the telegraph station. After exploring the Macarthur region the trio returned to the Overland Telegraph Line, reaching Daly Waters telegraph station in a state of near exhaustion on 15 July' -- From introd. by Peter Monteath and James Anderson.
Finding Aids
Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00011/a1747.pdf
General note

A printed transcription of the diary is held at MLMSS 7721.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823797
Name
Crawford, Lindsay
Creaghe, Emily Caroline, 1861-1944
Subject
Australia, Northern--Discovery and exploration.
Explorers--Australia, Northern--Diaries.
Place
Northern Territory
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