CHAPTER II. 



SAIL FROM CAPE YORK — MOUNT ERNEST DESCRIBED — FIND 

 KULKALEGA TRIBE ON SUE ISLAND — FRIENDLY RECEPTION 



AT DARNLEY ISLAND, AND PROCEEDINGS THERE BRAMBLE 



CAY AND ITS TURTLE— STAY AT REDSCAR 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 — OBSERYATIONS ON GEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY 

 — ORIGIN OF THE AUSTRALIANS CONSIDERED. 



Dec. Srd. — At leng-th we have bade a final adieu 

 to Cape York^ after a stay of upwards of two 

 months^ wliicli have passed away very pleasantly to 

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

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

 shore. We are now on our way to Sydney, 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 sufficiently well determined to serve as a 

 secondary meridian, one of the starting- points of the 

 survey. The natives learned at da3'lig-ht that we 

 were to lea\'e them in a few hours, so in order to 

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

 bisiker and cholia, they hauled a larg-e canoe across 



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