XU CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XJI. 



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 Leave Port Essinjjton — Reach Timor Laiit — Meet Proas — Chief 

 Lomba — Traces of the Crew of the Charles Eaton— Their account of 

 the wrecli and sojourn on the Island — Captain King's account of the 

 Rescue of the Survivors — Boy Ireland's relation of the sufferings and 

 massacre of the Crew — Appearance of the shores of Timor Laut — 

 Description of the Inhabitants — Dress — Leprosy — Canoes — Village of 

 Oliliet — Curious Houses — Remarkable Ornaments — Visit the Oran 

 Kaya — Burial Islet — Supplies obtained — Gunpowder in request as 

 Barter — Proceed to the Arru Islands — Dobbo Harbour— Trade — • 

 Present to Chief — Birds of Paradise — Chinaming Junks' bottoms — 

 Character of Natives — Some of them profess Christianity — Visit the 

 Ki Islands — Village of Ki lUi — How protected — Place of Worship — 

 Pottery — Timber— Boat-building — Cultivation of the eastern Ki — 

 No anchorage off it — Visit Ki Doulan — Antique Appearance of — 

 Luxm'iant Vegetation — Employment of Natives — Defences of the 

 place — Carvings on gateway — Civility of Chief — His Dress — Popula- 

 tion of the Ki Group — Their Religion — Trade — Place of Interment — 

 Agility of Australian Native — Supplies — Anchorage off Ki Doulan — 

 Island of Vordate — Visit from Chief — Excitement of Natives — Their 

 Arms and Ornaments — Carved Horns on Houses — Alarm of the 

 Oran Kaya —Punishment of the Natives of Laarat by the Dutch — 

 Revisit Oliliet — Discover tliat Mr. Watson had rescued tl)e European 

 Boy — Return to Port Essiugton — Mr. Watson's Proceedings at 

 Timor Laut . . . . . 438 



APPENDIX. 



List of Birds, collected by the Officers of H. M. S. Beagle . . 479 



Descriptions of Six Fish. By Sir John Richardson. M.D., F.R.S. &c. 484 

 Descriptions of some New Australian Reptiles. By J. E. Gray, Esq. 



F.R.S. &c. .... 498 



Descriptions of new or unfigured Species of Coleoptcra from Australia. 



By Adam White, Esq. M.E.S. . . .505 



Descriptions of some new or imperfectly characterized Lepidoptera 



from Australia. By E. Doubleday, Esq. F.L.S. . . 513 



