CHAPTER XXXVII 



H.M.SS. " RATTLESNAKE " AND "BRAMBLE," 1847-50 

 STANLEY AND YULE 



FIRST NORTHERN CRUISE. MACGILLIVRAY AND HUXLEY, NATURALISTS. SHIPS LEAVE 

 SYDNEY, IITH OCTOBER, 1847. UPSTART BAY, IOTH DECEMBER. RETURN TO 

 SYDNEY. SECOND NORTHERN CRUISE. SHIPS LEAVE SYDNEY, 29 APRIL, 1848, 

 CONVOYING " TAM O'SHANTER," WITH KENNEDY'S EXPEDITION. DEBARKATION 

 OF EXPEDITION AT ROCKINGHAM BAY, 23RD-24TH MAY. " BRAMBLE " TO MEET 

 KENNEDY IN PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY IN FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST. " RATTLE- 

 SNAKE " GOES NORTH. TRINITY BAY. MOUNT PETER BOTTE NAMED. LIZARD 

 ISLAND. CAPE MELVILLE. PIPON ISLANDS. " BRAMBLE " ARRIVES FROM PRINCESS 

 CHARLOTTE BAY. KENNEDY NOT THERE. BOAT PARTY ATTACKED BY NATIVES 

 IN BATHURST BAY. BOTH SHIPS TO PELICAN ISLAND. " BRAMBLE " SENT TO 

 CHART PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY. " RATTLESNAKE " TO BLIGH'S SUNDAY ISLAND. 

 REJOINED BY " BRAMBLE," 29^ SEPTEMBER. BOTH SHIPS TO EVANS BAY, THROUGH 

 ALBANY PASSAGE. INFLUX OF MOUNT ADOLPHUS ISLANDERS TO EVANS BAY. 

 STANLEY RECOMMENDS SETTLEMENT ON ALBANY ISLAND. " ARIEL," WITH 

 REINFORCEMENTS AND PROVISIONS FOR KENNEDY, ARRIVES 27TH OCTOBER. 

 KENNEDY LATE. " ARIEL " LEFT TO WAIT FOR HIM. ARRIVAL OF JACKEY-]ACKEY, 

 SOLE SURVIVOR OF KENNEDY'S " DASH TO CAPE YORK." " RATTLESNAKE " AND 

 " BRAMBLE " LEAVE, 2ND NOVEMBER. THROUGH PRINCE OF WALES CHANNEL TO 

 BOOBY ISLAND. " RATTLESNAKE " TO PORT ESSINGTON AND SYDNEY (24TH 

 JANUARY, 1849). " BRAMBLE " LEFT AT BOOBY ISLAND TO SURVEY IN ENDEAVOUR 

 STRAIT AND INNER PASSAGE. PASSED (IST AND 2ND DECEMBER, 1848) CLOSE TO 

 MOUTH OF PASCOE, WITHOUT SEEING CARRON'S SIGNALS. THIRD NORTHERN 

 CRUISE. " RATTLESNAKE " AND " BRAMBLE " MEET IN MORETON BAY. To NEW 

 GUINEA. LEAVE FOR CAPE YORK. TOGETHER TO MARSDEN ISLAND. " BRAMBLE " 

 SENT TO BOOBY ISLAND. " RATTLESNAKE " ARRIVES AT EVANS BAY, IST OCTOBER, 

 1849, AND IS REJOINED BY " BRAMBLE." WHITE WOMAN CLAIMS PROTECTION. 

 HER REMARKABLE STORY. SHIPWRECK AND LIFE AMONG NATIVES. A WHITE 

 USURPER ON MULGRAVE ISLAND. MACGILLIVRAY'S VIEWS ON THE BREEDING OF 

 ISLANDERS AND CAPE YORK NATIVES. CREWS WITNESS TOURNAMENT AND CORROB- 

 BOREE. " YOUNGER BROTHERHOOD " WITH INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF SHOOTING 

 PARTIES. MEW RIVER, MUDDY BAY. " RATTLESNAKE " STARTS NORTH, 3RD 

 DECEMBER, 1849. THE THREE SISTERS, COCO-NUT, DOVE, ARDEN, KEATS, 

 RENNEL AND MARSDEN ISLANDS. DARNLEY ISLAND (O~TH DECEMBER). BARTER. 

 MUMMY. To NEW GUINEA. SURVEY OF LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO. To SYDNEY 

 (5TH FEBRUARY, 1850). DEATH OF CAPTAIN OWEN STANLEY (i3TH MARCH). 

 " RATTLESNAKE " RETURNS TO ENGLAND, WITH MARINES FROM THE ABANDONED 

 PORT ESSINGTON STATION. 



i. FIRST NORTHERN CRUISE 



EARLY in the year 1845, the Admiralty determined to 

 replace the " Fly " by the " Rattlesnake," but his formal 

 instructions were not handed to the Commander, Captain 

 OWEN STANLEY, until the eve of his departure from 

 England, towards the close of the following year. 

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