What hardships did the explorers faced?

The explorers of Australia typically faced * Starvation - they could not carry enough rations for their journey, and they lacked knowledge of suitable bush foods. They had to hunt for their food (kangaroos, etc) and sometimes went for days or weeks without sufficient food * Lack of water (the Forrest brothers, Giles and Gibson) * Exhaustion (Sturt, Leichhardt. Eyre) * malaria (Leichhardt) * Murder (Eyre's overseer, Baxter, was killed by two men of Eyre's own exploration party) * Hostile aborigines (Stuart, Leichhardt, Kennedy) * Scurvy (Stuart)