Burke & Wills 90: Return to the Depot - Burke and Wills Expedition (sitios de interés)
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Having dutifully celebrated Queen Victoria's birthday on May 24 with a feast of nardoo, Wills left Burke and King to return to the Depot, 30 miles upstream, to deposit his journals and leave another note imploring anyone who might read it to send help. Brahe and Wright had been here since but hadn't altered anything, so Wills didn't either – he just just reburied the camel box, yet again covering the hole with leaves and dung. Over the next few days Wills made his way back to Burke with great difficulty, still managing daily journal entries. June 2: "A certain amount of good luck however still stuck to me, for on going along by a large waterhole I was so fortunate as to find a large fish about a pound and a half in weight which was just being choked by another which it had tried to swallow but which had stuck in its throat. I soon had a fire lit and both of the fish cooked and eaten."
On the 3rd he was welcomed at an Aboriginal camp and sat before "a large pile of fish ... I was expected to dispose of this lot, a task which to my own astonishment I soon accomplished, keeping two or three Blacks pretty steadily at work extracting the bones for me. The fish being disposed of next came a supply of nardu cake until I was so full as to be unable to eat any more."