CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER VIII. 



PAGF. 



Rescue a white Woman from Captivity among the Natives — Her History 

 — Bramble and boats complete the Survey of Torres Strait — Wini 

 and the Mulgrave Islanders — Intercourse with the Cape York Natives 

 — Nearly quarrel with them at a night dance — Witness a Native 

 fight — Discover some fine country — Incidents of ovu* stay — Many 

 new Birds found — Remarks on the Climate, &c. of Cape York . 301 



APPENDIX. 



Observations on the Temperature of the Sea, made during the Voyage 

 of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Dec. 1846— July, 1847, by Lieut. J. Day- 

 MAN, R.N. . . . . . .329 



Abstracts of Meridian Distances measured during the Voyage of 

 H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1847-50, by Capt. Owen Stanley, R.N., 

 F.R.S., and Lieut. C. B. Yule, R.N. . . .331 



Observations of the Mean Magnetic Inclination, made on shore in the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, by Lieut. J. Dayman, R.N. . 337 



Account of the Polyzoa and Sertularian Zoophytes, collected in the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, by George Busk, Esa. F.R.S. 343 



