Lost/ Verschollen/ Desaparecido (Sentanka)

A drought ridden land And miles and miles yet to go Into uncertainty A dream lost in desert sands All tracks of existance wiped out -------------------------------------------- Ein ausgedörrtes Land Und noch Meile für Meile zu gehen Hinein ins Ungewisse Ein Traum verloren im Wüstensand Ausgeöscht alle Spuren des Seins -------------------------------------------- Una tierra secada Y milla por milla para ir Hacia lo desconocido Sueño perdido en la arena del desierto Todas las trazas de ser borradas Note: Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) was a German explorer, zoologist, botanist and geologist. In 1842 he came to Australia to study its mostly unknown nature. He wrote a diary on his first expedition (1844/45), titled "Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia 1844-1845. This ebook is available from the Australian Explorers Journals page. His second expedition in 1848 failed and he started again on a third expedition in 1848 to find a cross-country route from the cattle station McPherson (Queensland) to Perth (Western Australia). He and other expedition members were lost in the desert. Two rescue expeditions in 1858 ans 1869 ended unsuccessful. Only in 2006 a small copper plate was found by an Aboriginal with Leichhardt's name engraved fixed to remains of a half burnt rifle which hung in a Baobab tree near the Simpson Desert. The tree was merked with the letter "L"