PRINCIPAL EDITORS David Gibson and Andrew Winwood Smith

This is the log of Michael Terry's 1932 expedition into the western desert in search of gold and other mineral wealth on behalf of the Emu Mining Company.

Five men set out with 12 camels and nine months provisions. Reaching Lake Mackay, a large little known, dry lake bed that straddles the Northern Territory/Western Australia border, via Mount Davenport and Mount Farewell the party was thwarted by a lack of water and turned back to known waters near Mount Singleton. From there they made their way, on occasions with great difficulty due to heat and water shortages, to Laverton via the Ehrenberg Range, Cleland Hills, Bloods, Rawlinson and Warburton Ranges.

They found traces of the missing prospector Lasseter at Lake Christopher and made numerous contacts with Aboriginal people. They collected mammal specimens for the South Australian Museum, and geological and soil specimens, as well as recording meteorological and altitude information. A nitre deposit was noted in the Cleland Hills but despite covering 3040 kilometres, gold was not discovered.

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