xiv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



William Hann, and for information re the Hann expedition, the 

 Etheridge and Gilbert Rivers, etc. 



GREEN, D., Townsville. For many contributions of newspaper articles re 

 northern explorers and pioneers, and for gratuitous advertisements in the 

 newspapers controlled by him with the object of eliciting information 

 required by me. 



HEERES, J. E., LL.D., formerly Professor at the Dutch Colonial Institute, 

 Delft, afterwards at the University of Leiden. For permission to quote 

 from the English translation of his exhaustive work on The Part borne 

 by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia, 1606-1765, and to his pub- 

 lishers, " The Late E. J. Brill Company, Limited," Leiden, for their 

 consent. 



HEY, REV. NICHOLAS, late of the Mapoon Aboriginal Mission. For 

 geographical and ethnological notes ; for notes on explorations by the 

 missionaries, and especially for assisting in the identification of what I 

 believe to be " Coen Revier " of the " Pera " and " Aernem " Ex- 

 pedition. 



JOHNSON, L., Sydney. For special care in the reproduction of old portraits 

 from originals in some instance faded or damaged. 



JONES, REV. JOHN, Church of England Board of Missions, Sydney. For 

 information re Aborigines of the Mitchell Delta, etc. 



LEAKE, MRS., Merriula, Maxwellton, Queensland. For portrait of her 

 father, Thomas Tate ; for documents relating to the wreck of the 

 " Maria" in which he took part, and for other information. 



LEES, WILLIAM, Brisbane. For assistance and encouragement in my 

 work. For several years back he continually contributed any writing 

 which came under his observation as a journalist, and which appeared 

 to bear on the subject of my study. His extensive knowledge of the 

 North of Queensland and his wide reading enabled him to amass 

 knowledge most useful to me. 



LOVE, JAMES SIMPSON, Townsville. For information regarding recent 

 developments in North Queensland. He was the youngest member of 

 my Second Expedition (1879-80), and has since been in a position to 

 acquire a very intimate knowledge of the Cape York Peninsula. 



MACGREGOR, THE LATE SIR WILLIAM, G.C.M.G., etc. Administrator and 

 Lieutenant Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Lagos, 

 Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland. But for 

 his death (on 4th July, 1919) this book would have been dedicated to him 

 in grateful recognition of his services to science and of his personal 

 and stimulating interest in my geographical and geological work and 

 in the historical questions which I had under investigation. He wrote 

 me on 29th December, 1916 : " I am glad to learn that you have on the 

 stocks a work of the kind you mention. I should indeed consider it a 

 very real honour to have it dedicated to me, for I know well that it would 

 be the standard of reference for future generations when personally we 

 are long off the scene." 



MACINTOSH, HUGH, Brisbane. For portraits of Sir Augustus Gregory and 

 Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, and for a mass of information re explorations, 

 surveys, dates, names, etc., in answer to my inquiries extending over 

 the last decade. His long experience in the Survey Office made him an 

 unrivalled authority on such matters. 



