CHAPTER III. 



SAIL ON OrE SECOl^TD KOETHEEl^ CEriZE — ENTEANCE TO THE 

 INJS^EE PASSAGE— AEEIYE AT EOCKI]!fGHAM BAT — LAITD ME. 



Kennedy's expedition— commence the srEYEY at 

 dune: island— communication with natiyes— baenaed 

 isles — botanical sketch — examine a new eivee — 

 feankland isles — find the cocoa-nut palm— eitzeot 

 island — the will o' the wisp and hee story— 

 teinity bay— animals of a coeal eeef — stay at 

 lizaed island — howick, pelican, and claeemont isles 



bied isles — meet paety op natiyes in disteess — 



caienceoss island — aeeiye at cape yoek. 



April 29^A.— The season for passing- throug-li 

 Torres Strait from the southward having* arrived, 

 we left Port Jackson on a ten-months cruize, in 

 order to complete the survey of the Inner Passage, 

 or the clear channel between the north-east coast of 

 Australia and the inner edge of the outer reefs, 

 which again are bounded to seaward by the Great 

 Barrier Reef, stretching from north to south, for a 

 distance of upwards of 1000 miles. 



In the evening' we were joined by the Tarn 

 O'Shanter, a barque having on board a colonial 

 overland expedition under Mr. Kennedy, which we 

 are to accompany to Rockiug'ham Bay, 1200 miles 



