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Activity page 9D Here is an illustration of the path actually taken by the explorers in 1813. 13 Which method does it show? 14 Why do you think the explorers followed this path? Refer back to other evidence to help you to decide. Peter Leyden (ed), Over The Blue Mountains, The <strong>Australian</strong> Children’s Pictorial Social Studies, Sydney, 1958 Here is a Google Earth map showing the road today through the Blue Mountains. Google Earth 15 How closely does the road follow the path taken by the 1813 explorers? 16 Add any information to your summary table on activity page 3A. 17 Write a brief paragraph or do a comic strip sketch for your own history textbook (in box 5 of activity page 3B) to explain to readers how the explorers were able to cross the Blue Mountains in 1813. Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth knew exactly how and where to cross the Blue Mountains because of information provided by people. True or False? 32 Myths and Mysteries of the Crossing of the Blue Mountains
Activity page 10A Investigation 6 What was their journey like? See the film We now know how the exploring party was able to cross the Blue Mountains in 1813. But was it a hard task? 1 Think about what qualities or characteristics a good explorer would need. Brainstorm, and list these. 2 Read these extracts from entries in Blaxland’s journal of the trip (note that he writes in the third person, referring to himself as ‘Mr Blaxland’). Underline the difficulties or hardships that the party faced, as outlined in each entry. 3 Beside each extract, brainstorm and write in words that describe the feelings the explorers might have had at each stage (empathy). NOTE: An Alternative Approach ‘virtual visit’ from 08:45 to 12:00 To understand this you need to ‘take’ the journey. Go to www.australianhistorymysteries.info to see if you would be a good explorer on this journey. The interactive will require you to make many decisions — will you make ones that will help you succeed? Good luck! Extracts Empathy words May 12 The land was covered with scrubby brush-wood, very thick in places, with some trees of ordinary timber, which much incommoded the horses. The greater part of the way they had deep rocky gullies on each side of their track, and the ridge they followed was very crooked and intricate. In the evening they encamped at the head of a deep gully, which they had to descend for water; they found but just enough for the night, contained in a hole in the rock. A small patch of grass supplied the horses for the night. May 13 They had not proceeded above two miles, when they found themselves stopped by a brushwood much thicker than they had hitherto met with. This induced them to alter their course, and to endeavour to find another passage to the westward; but every ridge which they explored proved to terminate in a deep rocky precipice; and they had no alternative but to return to the thick brushwood, which appeared to be the main ridge, with the determination to cut a way through for the horses next day. This day some of the horses, while standing, fell several times under their loads. The dogs killed a large kangaroo. The party encamped in the forest tract, with plenty of good grass and water. Blaxland’s journal http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/blaxland/gregory/b64j/part1.html#part1 May 14–15 On the next morning, leaving two men to take care of the horses and provisions, they proceeded to cut a path through the thick brushwood. As they ascended the mountain these gullies became much deeper and more rocky on each side. They now began to mark their track by cutting the bark of the trees on two sides. Having cut their way for about five miles, they returned in the evening to the spot on which they had encamped the night before. The fifth day was spent in prosecuting the same tedious operation; but, as much time was necessarily lost in walking twice over the track cleared the day before, they were unable to cut away more than two miles further. They found no food for the horses the whole way. May 16 On Sunday they rested, and arranged their future plan. They had reason, however, to regret this suspension of their proceedings, as it gave the men leisure to ruminate on their danger; and it was for some time doubtful whether, on the next day, they could be persuaded to venture farther. May 17 Having laden the horses with as much grass as could be put on them, in addition to their other burdens, they moved forward along the path which they had cleared and marked, about six miles and a half. They had to fetch water up the side of the precipice, about six hundred feet high, and could get scarcely enough for the party. The horses had none this night. May 18 The day was spent in cutting a passage through the brushwood, for a mile and a half further. They returned to their camp at five o’clock, very much tired and dispirited. The ridge, which was not more than fifteen or twenty yards over, with deep precipices on each side, was rendered almost impassable by a perpendicular mass of rock, nearly thirty feet high, extending across the whole breadth, with the exception of a small broken rugged track in the centre. By removing a few large stones, they were enabled to pass. Myths and Mysteries of the Crossing of the Blue Mountains 33
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