CHAPTER II. 



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 SAIL from' cape YORK — MOUNT ERNEST DESCRIBED — FIND 

 KFLKALEGA TRIBE ON SUE ISLAND— FRIENDLY RECEPTION 



AT DAENLEY ISLAND, AND PROCEEDINGS THERE BRAMBLE 



CAY AND ITS TURTLE — STAY AT EEDSCAB BAY — FURTHER 

 DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVES, THEIR CANOES, ETC. — PASS 

 ALONG THE SOUTH-EAST COAST OF NEW GUINEA— CALL AT 

 DUCHATEAU ISLANDS — PASSAGE TO SYDNEY — GENERAL 

 REMARKS REGARDING NEW GUINEA AND THE LOUISIADE 

 ARCHIPELAGO — OBSERTATIONS ON GEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY 

 ■ — ORIGIN OF THE AUSTRALIANS CONSIDERED. 



Dec. Srd. — At length we have bade a final adieu 

 to Cape York^ after a stay of upwards of two 

 months^ which have passed away very pleasantly to 

 such of us as were in the habit of making- excursions 

 m the bush, or who spent much of their time on 

 shore. We are now on our way to S3^dney, by 

 way of Torres Strait, New Guinea and the Louis- 

 iade, chiefly for the purpose of running- another set 

 of meridian distances, the position of Cape York 

 being- now sufficientl}^ well determined to serve as a 

 secondary meridian, one of the starting- points of the 

 survey. The natives learned at daylig-ht that we 

 were to leave them in a few hours, so in order to 

 make the most of their last opportunity of g-etting- 

 bisiker and cJwJui, they hauled a larg'e canoe across 



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