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1. The FLINDERS RIVER, first named by Stokes, may be accepted 

 as a safe starting-point. 



2. The BYNOE INLET, so named by Stokes, is another mouth 

 of the Flinders, but it had already been named by Tasman VAN DER 

 LIJN'S REVIER. 



3. The NORMAN RIVER, to which Stokes alluded only as 

 " another inlet," and to which he attached so little importance that 

 he gave it no name, and which Flinders had erroneously conjec- 

 tured to be Tasman's CARON REVIER, is Tasman's VAN DIEMEN 

 REVIER. (The name of Van Diemen Revier is erroneously applied 

 in modern charts to a mouth of the GILBERT RIVER in 16 58' S.) 



4. Stokes' ACCIDENT INLET (a mouth of the GILBERT RIVER, 

 continued inland as CROOKED CREEK) was the " furthest south " of 

 the " Pera " and " Aernem " expedition in 1623 and was named the 

 STATEN REVIER by Carstenszoon, who was on board the " Pera " 

 and in command of the expedition. 



5. The Smithburn River, or SMITHBURN MOUTH OF THE 

 GILBERT, was fortunately not named by Stokes, who merely refers 

 to it as an " opening." (The modern chart, corrected to 1896, 

 calls it " Southern Mouth of Gilbert River," although Accident 

 Inlet, another mouth, is still further south.) 



For the reason that many of the names of the officers have been 

 conferred on capes, islands and other geographical features of 

 Torres Strait, the Gulf of Carpentaria and the neighbourhood of 

 Cape York, the full list of the personnel of the " Beagle " is given 

 below. 



John Clements Wickham, Commander and Surveyor (1837-41). 



John B. Emery, Lieutenant. 



Henry Eden, Lieutenant. 



John Lort Stokes, Lieutenant and Assistant Surveyor (succeeded Wickham in 



1841 ; afterwards Admiral). 

 Alex. B. Usborne, Master. 

 Benjamin Bynoe, Surgeon. 

 Thomas Tait, Assistant Surgeon. 

 John E. Dring, Clerk in Charge. 

 Benjamin F. Helpman, A. T. Freeze, Thomas T. Birch and L. R. Fitzmaurice, 



Mates (Fitzmaurice was appointed Assistant Surveyor when Stokes succeeded 



Wickham in the command). 

 William Tarrant, Master's Assistant. 

 Charles Keys, Clerk. 

 Thomas Sorrel, Boatswain. 

 John Weeks, Carpenter. 

 A corporal of marines and seven privates. 

 Forty seamen and boys. 



The following changes took place during the voyages : 



May, 1839. Usborne invalided by wound. Tarrant acted as master until the 



position was filled by C. J. Parker in December, 1840. 

 August, 1839. Birch exchanged into the " Britomart " and was replaced by Pascoe. 



