VIU CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



FROM SWAN RIVER TO ROEBUCK BAY. 



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Sail from Gage's Road — Search for a bank — Currents and soundings — 

 Houtman's Abrollios — Fruitless search for Ritchie's Reef — Indica- 

 tions of a squall — Dcej) sea soundings — Atmosiilieric Temperature — 

 Fish — A squall — Anchor off the mouth of Roebuck Bay — A heavy 

 squall — Driven from our anchorage— Cape Villaret — Anchor in 

 Roebuck Bay — Excursion on shore — Visit from the Natives — Mr. 

 Bynoc's account of them — A stranger among them — Captain Grey's 

 account of an "almost white" race in Australia — Birds, Snakes, 

 and Turtle — Move tlie Ship — Miago, and the " Black Fellows" — 

 The wicked men of the North — Clouds of Magellan — Face of the 

 Country — Natives— Heat and Sickness — Miago on shore — Mr. Us- 

 borne wounded — Failure in Roebuck Bay — Native notions . . 64 



CHAPTER V. 



FROM ROEBUCK BAY TO SKELETON POINT. 



Departure from Roebuck Bay — Appearance of the Country — Progress 

 to the northward — Hills and Cliffs — French Names and French 

 Navigators — Tasman, and his account of the Natives — "Hazej- 

 gaeys and Assagais" — His Authenticity as an Historian — Descrip- 

 tion of the Natives — Marks and mutilation? — Phienological Deve- 

 lopment — Moral condition — Proas, Canoes, and Rafts — Another 

 squall — Anchor in Beagle Bay — Face of the Country — Palm Trees — 

 Dew — Hauling the Seine — A meeting with Natives — Eastern Saluta- 

 tion — Miago's conduct towards, and opinion of, his countrymen — 

 Mutilation of the Hand — Native *' smokes" seen — Move further 

 to the N.E. — Point Enieriau — Cape Leveque — Point Swan — Tide 

 races — Search for water — Encountered by Natives — Return to the 

 Ship — The attempt renewed — Conduct of the Natives — Effect of a 

 Congreve Rocket after dark — A successful haul — More Natives — 

 Miago's Heroism— The plague of Flies-.-Dampier's description of it 

 — Native Habitations — Under weigh — Wind and weather — Tidal 

 Phenomenon — Natural History — Singular Kangaroo — Bustard — 

 Cinnamon Kangaroo — Quails — Guanas and Lizards — Ant Hills — 

 Fishing (;vcr the side — A day in the Bush — A flood of fire — Soil and 

 Productions — AVhite Ibis — Curious Tree — Rain water — Geology of 

 the Cliffs— Weigh, and graze a Rock, or "Touch and go'' — The 

 Twins — Sunday Strait — Roe's Group — Miago and his friends — A 

 black dog — A day of rest — Native raft — Captain King and the 

 Bathurst — A gale — Point Cunningham — Successful search for 

 water— Native estimation of this fluid — Discovery of a Skeleton — 

 And its removal - The grey Ibis— Our parting legacy . . 82 



