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Les deux hommes, sans aucune exp\u00e9rience dans le domaine des travers\u00e9es de cette ampleur, engagent 19 hommes, prennent 23 chevaux, 26 chameaux et 6 chariots remplis d\u2019objets inutiles, comme un gong chinois ou une table massive en ch\u00eane.<\/p>\n<p>Le p\u00e9riple commence. Apr\u00e8s plusieurs semaines de voyage, les hommes arrivent \u00e0 Cooper Creek. Robert et William se s\u00e9parent du groupe avec l\u2019id\u00e9e de prendre la route pour aller jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la c\u00f4te au Nord. Les autres restent \u00e0 Cooper Creek avec la consigne d\u2019attendre l\u2019arriv\u00e9e de deux \u00ab explorateurs \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Plus de trois mois passent. Les hommes de Cooper Creek d\u00e9cident d\u2019enfouir de la nourriture et des r\u00e9serves sous un eucalyptus, lui m\u00eame plac\u00e9 \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 d\u2019un trou d\u2019eau. Avant de partir, les hommes gravent la date de leur pr\u00e9sence sur l\u2019\u00e9corce de l\u2019arbre et s\u2019en vont.<\/p>\n<p>Quelques heures apr\u00e8s, Robert et William arrivent \u00e0 Cooper Creek. Ils retrouvent les r\u00e9serves et la lettre sign\u00e9e du groupe. Mais trop \u00e9puis\u00e9s pour essayer de les rattraper, les deux d\u00e9cident de se donner deux jours du repos.<\/p>\n<p>Les aventuriers laissent \u00e0 leur tour une lette dans la cachette de l\u2019arbre avec les d\u00e9tails de leur itin\u00e9raire&#8230; mais ils oublient de graver la date de leur passage sur l\u2019\u00e9corce de l\u2019eucalyptus. Sans se rendre compte, ils prennent la route pour le Sud.<\/p>\n<p>Les membres du premier groupe reviennent encore une fois \u00e0 Cooper Creek avec des provisions, mais il ne voient rien, qui pouvait indiquer le passage de deux hommes et ils repartent.<\/p>\n<p>Sentant leur fin s\u2019approcher, William retourne \u00e0 l\u2019arbre et y enterre son journal. Cette fois, il note la date du 21 juin et laisse les mots suivants : \u00ab <em>Nous avons fait tout notre possible&#8230; Nos morts seront davantage le fruit de la mauvaise gestion d\u2019autrui que celui d\u2019actions inconsid\u00e9r\u00e9es de notre part <\/em> \u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cooper Creek, dans le Queensland, dans l\u2019Est Australien, se dresse un vieil eucalyptus, devenu le t\u00e9moin d\u2019une histoire, qui a mal tourn\u00e9e pour ses deux protagonistes. Cette histoire commence en 1860, quand Robert Burke et William Wills d\u00e9cident de partir de Melbourne en direction du nord de l\u2019Australie. 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