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and the sraallness of our company, not allowing me two or 

 three armed men as a guard, forbade my prosecuting my 

 pursuits in distant walks." 



On the 12th of July, the party left Endeavour River, and 

 doubled Cape York on the 2'lth ; and after failing to find an 

 anchorage among the islands in Torres Straits, they stood 

 across the Gulf of Carpentaria. The first place at which they 

 landed on the north coast was, on the banks of a river called 

 by Captain King, Liverpool River. On the 8lh of August, 

 they anchored at their last year's anchorage, at Goulburn 

 Islands, where Captain King remained ten days to complete 

 their supply of wood and water. Mr Cunningham was un- 

 able to make a second collection this year, from the continu- 

 ed hostility of the natives, and also from a severe attack of 

 jaundice, brought on by the fatiguing examination of Liver- 

 pool River. 



On the 27th, they reached Vernon's Island in Clarence 

 Strait, which was the termination of their last year's survey. 

 Among the more remarkable places touched at on this voyage 

 on the north-west coast, many may be mentioned, — Port 

 Keats, Lacrosse Island, Cambridge Gulf, where they remain- 

 ed ten days, the peculiar botany of its shores greatly enrich- 

 ing Mr Cunningham's collection, — Vansittart Bay and Port 

 Warrender. The general arid character of the coast on this 

 part of New Holland, although it did not afford species of 

 remarkable beauty, yet a large proportion of them are highly 

 interesting to the botanist, from the singularity of their forms, 

 and their affinity in many instances, with plants natives of 

 the continent of India. One singularity of the vegetation of 

 this portion of the coast is, the paucity of the family of Pro- 

 teacecB, so abundant to the southward. 



On the 16th of October, they sailed once more, with the in- 

 tention of again visiting Timor, which island, after some delays 

 from the wind and current being against them, they reached 

 on the 1st of November. They completed their necessary 

 supplies by the 9th, on which day they sailed for Port Jack- 



