CHAPTER IV. 



FROM SWAN RIVER TO ROEBUCK BAY. 



SAIL FROM gage's ROAD — SEARCH FOR A BANK — CUR- 

 RENTS AND SOUNDINGS — HOUTMAn's ABROLHOS FRUIT- 

 LESS SEARCH FOR RITCHIe's REEF — INDICATIONS OF A 

 SQUALL — DEEP SEA SOUNDINGS — ATMOSPHERIC TEMPE- 

 RATURE FISH — A SQUALL ANCHOR OFF THE MOUTH 



OF ROEBUCK BAY A HEAVY SQUALL — DRIVEN FROM 



OUR ANCHORAGE CAPE VILLARET — ANCHOR IN ROE- 

 BUCK BAY — EXCURSION ON SHORE — VISIT FROM THE 

 NATIVES — MR. BYNOe's ACCOUNT OF THEM — A STRANGER 

 AMONG THEM — CAPTAIN GREy's ACCOUNT OF AN "ALMOST 

 white" RACE IN AUSTRALIA — BIRDS, SNAKES, AND TURTLE 



— MOVE THE 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. USBORNE WOUNDED — FAILURE 

 IN ROEBUCK BAY — NATIVE NOTIONS. 



The solemnities of Christmas, and the festal 

 celebration of the New Year, beneath a cloudless 

 sky, and with the thermometer at 90, concluded our 

 first visit to Swan River. We left our anchorage 

 in Gage's Road on Thursday, January 4th, devot- 

 ing several hours to sounding between Rottenest 

 and the main. We bore away at 4, p.m. to search 

 for a bank said to exist about fifteen miles north 



