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XLI. THE JOURNEY OF FRANK AND ALEXANDER JARDINE, 

 1864-5 : FROM ROCKHAMPTON TO SOMERSET 

 CARPENTARIA DOWNS, VIA EINASLEIGH 

 RIVER, TO THE MOUTH OF THE ETHERIDGE 

 RIVER ....... 289 



XLII. THE JARDINE BROTHERS' EXPEDITION, 1864-5, 

 continued : FROM THE EINASLEIGH RIVER 



TO THE MOUTH OF THE STATEN RlVER, DE 

 FACTO ....... 295 



XLIII. THE JARDINE BROTHERS' EXPEDITION, continued : 



STATEN RIVER, DE FACTO, TO JARDINE RIVER 302 



XLIV. THE JARDINE BROTHERS' EXPEDITION, continued : 

 THE JARDINE RIVER AND THE PROBLEM OF 

 THE ESCAPE RIVER . . . . .324 



XLV. THE JARDINE BROTHERS' EXPEDITION, continued : 

 RECONNAISSANCE BY THE BROTHERS AND 

 EULAH . . . . . . -331 



XLVI. THE JARDINE BROTHERS' EXPEDITION, continued 334 



XLVII. SOMERSET AND ITS BACKGROUND . . . 338 



XLVIII. DAINTREE, 1863-71 348 



XLIX. MORESBY : FIRST CRUISE OF THE " BASILISK " 



TO TORRES STRAIT, 1871 . . . -352 



L. MORESBY, continued : SECOND CRUISE OF THE 



" BASILISK " IN TORRES STRAIT, 1873 . 360 



