02-08-2012, 03:19 PM
Evidently this has something to do with their (Burke, Wills, and King) unsuccessful trip to reach Mount Hopeless. As I am unfamiliar with the story of that journey I don't know how well this works or doesn't. I'm assuming this is why it doesn't really evoke anything much for me, but then again I did not grow up hearing the whole story, like I did with Lewis and Clarke. That something poisonous did not kill them before they died of the elements is quite amazing. I have heard that if you live all of your life in the outback, that when you die, no matter how bad you were, you don't have to go to Purgatory. Of course trying to go 150 miles across a desert in the middle summer, isn't the brightest idea. I do like the part in the beginning of the journey where Burke left the rum they had planned to feed the camels. Interesting hypothesis that. It probably took a non-drinker to come along and disprove that rum doesn't prevent scurvy. Seems to me they could have found a way to substitute worth drinking like Scotch!
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The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.