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Kennedy was unable to keep the appointment, arrived only on 

 9th October, and did not think it worth while to force his way 

 through the mangroves and swamps of the coastal plain to the 

 bay, from which the " Bramble " must long ago have sailed away. 

 (SEE MAP G.) 



The " Rattlesnake " was in TRINITY BAY (the site of the future 

 town of Cairns) on 26th July, and shortly afterwards gave to the 

 mountain behind Cook's Cape Tribulation the name of PETER 

 BOTTE, from a fancied resemblance to the mountain of that name 

 in the Mauritius. A fortnight (3ist July to I4th August) was 

 spent at LIZARD ISLAND. (SEE MAP E.) CAPE MELVILLE was 

 reached on 2ist August and the PIPON ISLANDS on the following 

 day. Here the " Rattlesnake " was joined by the " Bramble " 

 and Yule reported that he had waited ten days in Princess 

 Charlotte Bay without seeing anything of Kennedy. While the 

 " Rattlesnake " lay off CAPE MELVILLE, a watering party was 

 attacked by NATIVES on a small stream " inside of the cape " 

 (i.e., in BATHURST BAY, to the west), but no casualties took place. 

 (SEE MAP C.) 



From the Pipon Islands to PELICAN ISLAND (143 50' E. ; 

 13 55' S.), which was reached on 2%th August, the course of the 

 " Rattlesnake " and " Bramble " was probably across Bathurst Bay, 

 through Rattlesnake Channel (between Denham Island and 

 Bathurst Head), across Princess Charlotte Bay, and west of the 

 Beabey Patches and Stainer Island. 1 



From Pelican Island, the " Bramble " was dispatched to the 

 south, to fill in details of the survey to the head of PRINCESS 

 CHARLOTTE BAY. The " Rattlesnake " anchored at No. 5 CLARE- 

 MONT ISLAND (143 43' E. ; 13 39' S.), now charted as FIFE ISLAND, 

 on ^ist August, and at NIGHT ISLAND (143 35' E. ; 10 i' S.) on 

 8th September. (SEE MAP B.) 



On 2C)tb September, the " Rattlesnake " arrived at Bligh's 

 SUNDAY ISLAND, where she was rejoined by the " Bramble." The 

 two ships were at CAIRNCROSS ISLAND on ^rd October, and at the 

 northern entrance of Port Albany (ALBANY PASSAGE) on Jth October. 

 (SEE MAP A.) On the 8th, they went on to EVANS BAY, where 

 they took in water, after having cleared out the wells dug by 

 the " Fly." 



" While the ship [* Rattlesnake '] remained at Cape York, 

 the ' Bramble J ' Asp, 9 pinnace and our second cutter were engaged 

 in the survey of ENDEAVOUR STRAIT and the PRINCE OF WALES 

 CHANNEL, which they finished before they left, thus completing 

 the survey of the INNER ROUTE between Dunk and Booby Islands " 

 (" Rattlesnake" I, p. 122). Among the surveys made by Yule 

 in the " Bramble " was that of ALBANY PASSAGE. Yule named 



1 Named after F. G. Beabey, Boatswain (1899), and C. E. Stainer, Lieutenant 

 (1898), H.M.S. "Dart." 



