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tells both ways. Some six or eight months after M‘Kinlay’s 
affray with them, I camped on the north-western branch of 
Cooper’s Creek, about 20 miles to the north east of Andaginni, 
and not far from a strong camp of blacks on the other side of 
the water channel. In the evening, it being bright starlight, 
I observed a number of them standing on the further bank of 
the river, which there was about 2 chains in width, some of 
them being in the water. After watching them in the star- 
light for some time, I shouted a warning to them, which I had 
learned from the black boy, Frank, ordering them to go away, 
or that I would shoot them. They then went away. The follow- 
ing morning I went to their camp, and, through Frank, told 
them that if I saw blacks about my camp in the night I 
should “ kill them with the Mukketty,” that is the gun. The 
old men with whom I was talking said that they were only 
looking at us. 
The conclusion to which I have come to, after considering 
the whole of M‘Kinlay’s account, is that the grave which he 
found was that of Gray, and that he entirely misunderstood 
what the blacks tried to communicate to him. 
6.—BOTTLE LORE FROM SEA TO SHORE. 
By Capraiy A. Srrpson (s.s. ‘‘ Moravian’’). 
(Communicated by Tuomas WaLKER Fowrer, M.C.E.) 
[ Abstract. | 
Tne author has been voyaging between England and Australia 
during the last thirty-five years, and has always taken an in- 
terest in observing and recording meteorological phenomena. 
Feeling that fuller information than that given in the sailing 
directories was required relative to the surface currents or ocean 
drifts, he has, since 1888, put overboard every day at noon one 
or more bottles properly sealed up with marine glue, and con- 
taining a paper giving the name of his ship, latitude, and longi- 
tude, and date on w hich the bottle was put ov erboard, together 
with a request for its return to the address given, with a note 
of the time and place at which it was found. In addition, 
he has collected similar data relative to bottles thrown over by 
other captains, and the paper gives the above data relative to 
492 bottles thus traced from sea to shore, together with the 
notes of the distances travelled by the bottles, and the daily 
