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CHAPTER IX. 



Refitting Ship at Sydney Mr. Haswell joins us We proceed North- 

 wards along East Coast of Australia Port Curtis, Queensland 

 A "Labour Vessel" Mr. Eastlake Marine Fauna abundant 

 Festivities at Gladstone Birds Percy Islands Survey of Port 

 Molle Queensland Aborigines " Black Police " " Dispersing " 

 Black fellows Dredging Operations A Parasitic Shell-fish Port 

 Denison Visit to a Native Camp Throwing the Boomerang A 

 Beche-de-mer Establishment at Lizard Island Hostility of the 

 Natives Drawings by Aborigines at Clack Island Albany Island, 

 North-Eastern Australia 180 193 



CHAPTER X. 



Settlement at Thursday Island Torres Straits Islanders Pearl-Shell 

 Fisheries Value of the Shell Pearls not abundant Neighbouring 

 Islands Lizards Landcrab Landshells Ferns Birds Booby 

 Island Arrive at Port Darwin, North-Western Australia Sub- 

 marine Cables Trans-continental Telegraph Palmerston North- 

 ern Territory Goldfields Aborigines at Port Darwin Marine Fauna 

 Birds Geese perching on Trees 194208 



CHAPTER XL 



Voyage from Port Darwin to Singapore Through the Eastern Archi- 

 pelago We arrive at Singapore Oceanic " Tiderips " Bird 

 Island, Seychelles Seabirds on Land Port Mahe, Seychelles 

 The Coco-de-Mer Gigantic Tortoise Produce of the Islands 

 Vanilla A Primitive Crushing-mill Dredging Operations 

 Periophthalmus The Seychelles, of Granitic Structure We visit 

 the Amirante Group African Islands Abundance of Orbitolites 

 Crabs pursued by Eels Eagle Island Partridge shooting Young 

 Lizards Darros Island Casuarinas Dredging Poivre Island 

 Trees and Shrubs Isle des Roches Flora scanty Land-birds 

 General Remarks on the Amirantes as a Group" Fringing Reefs," 

 but no "Barrier Reefs "Signs of Elevation Weather and Lee 

 Sides contrasted ......... 209 229 



