John Forrest’s expeditionsBy Monica

As you learn about John Forrest’s expeditions, the dark coloured arrow points to the actions Forrest made in reality, whilst the white coloured arrow points to actions I made up.

Made up Forrest’s action

When I was 22 I went on my first major expedition. I travelled over 2000 miles to find Leichhardt’s party, a man who had gone exploring earlier, but he hadn’t yet come back. Was I able to finish ? But were we the first people to cross from Western to Eastern Australia?

No, Leichhardt was never found. Instead I discovered and got to name four lakes and mountains in the region, and I brought back some interesting plants and rocks

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On my second trip I took my brother Alexander with me. We took six other men and sixteen horses. We tried to find an overland route from Perth to South Australia. We faced many difficulties and it took us five months to complete the journey.

Was I a very thorough and careful explorer

who did not like to take risks?

On my third expedition we travelled from Geraldton in Western Australia all the way to Adelaide. This journey was really difficult and we nearly died because of the lack of water. Unfortunately we also ran into some hostile people. Who were these people?

Aborigines

Army officers

Sorry, you are wrong. The sad fact is that Leichhardt was never found.

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I was a very careful person and I made sure that we had enough water to last us for the whole trip and we never took any risks.

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Wrong, I took my job seriously and I made sure my men were kept safe and well fed at all times. I even planned the water stops for horses as well as my men!

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So that was the end of my travels. My men and I were the first people to successfully cross from Western to Eastern Australia, through the centre.

I died a wealthy and powerful man, who worked hard as a politician in Western Australia. Now my portrait hangs in an Art Gallery in Western Australia and my statue stands in Kings’ Park in Perth.

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That’s right. There were Aborigines and they were not very friendly at all.

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Actually although army officers were rather friendly, we did not see any of them on our journey until we reached Adelaide.

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