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
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Ein ausgedörrtes Land
Und noch Meile für Meile zu gehen
Hinein ins Ungewisse
Ein Traum verloren im Wüstensand
Ausgeöscht alle Spuren des Seins
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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"
Copyright © Gert W. Knop | Year Posted 2010
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