A Tragic Return

Finally, on April 21st, they arrived back at Cooper's Creek only to find that

no one was there. The rest of the expedition had left the day before because they thought Burke

must be dead. The men continued south, but without enough food,

both Burke and Wills died. Aborigines helped the last man who was still alive,

and a search party found him in September 1861. He was half crazy from hunger and

loneliness.