CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER X. 



SYDNEY TO PORT ESSINGTON. 



PAGK 

 Leave Sydney— Gale and Current — Port Stephen — Tablee — River 

 Karuah — Stroud — Wild Cattle — Incivility of a Settler — River 

 Allyn — Mr. Boydfll— Cultivation of Tobacco — A clearing Lease — 

 William River — Crossing the Karuah at Night— Sail from Port 

 Stephen — Breaksea Spit — Discover a Bank — Cape Capricorn — 

 Nortliumberland Isles — Sandal Wood — Cape Upstart — Discover a 

 River — Raised Beach — Section of Barrier Reef — Natives— Plants 

 and Animals — Magnetical Island — Halifax Bay — Height of Cor- 

 dillera — FitzRoy Island — Hope Island — Verifying Captain King's 

 Original Chart — Cape Bedford — New Geological Feature — Lizard 

 Island — Captain Cook — Barrier and Reefs within — Howick Group 

 — Noble Island— Cape Melville— Reef near Cape Flinders— Princess 

 Charlotte's Bay — Section of a detached Reef — Tide at Claremont 

 Isles — Restoration Island — Islands fronting Cape Grenvllle — Boy- 

 dan Island — Correct Chart — Tides — Cairncross Island — Escape 

 River — Correct position of Reefs — York Isles — Tides — Torres Strait 

 — Endeavour Strait — Booby Island— Remarks on Barrier and its 

 contiguous Islands and Reefs— Cape Crokcr and reef oft'it — Discover 

 error in longitude of Cape — Reefs at the mouth of Port Essingtoit — 

 Arrive at the latter . . . . . 31 1 



CHAPTER XI. 



Port Essington — Bearings from shoals in the Harbour — Appearance 

 of the Settlement — Meet Captain Stanley — Cimrch — Point Record 

 — Prospects of the Settlement — Buffaloes escap — Fence across 

 neck of Peninsula — Lieut. P. B. Stewart explores the Country 

 — Natives — Uses of Sand — Tumuli-building Birds — Beautiful 

 Opossum — Wild Bees — Escape from an Alligator — Result of Astro- 

 nomical Observations — Geological Formation — RalBes Bay — Leave 

 Port Essington — Popham Bay — Detect error in position of Port 

 Essington — Melville Island — Discover a Reef in Clarence Strait — 

 Cape Hotham — Native Huts and Clothing — Geological Formation — 

 Discover the Adelaide River — Interview with Natives — Attempt to 

 come on board — Messrs. Fitzmaurice and Keys nearly speared — 

 Exploration of the Adelaide — Its capabilities — Wood Ducks — Vam- 

 pirea — Another party ascends the Adelaide — Meet Natives — Canoes 

 — Alligator — Visit Melville Island-Green Ants — Thoughts of taking 

 ship up Adelaide abandoned — Tides in Dundas Strait— Return to 

 Port Essington — Theatricals— H. M. S. Pelorus arrives with Pro- 

 visions — Further remarks on the Colony . . . 381 



