PREFACE. 



The Work now given to the Public is the result 

 of a series of recent excursions into the interior 

 of the Colony of New South Wales, at intervals 

 of disengagement from professional duties, and 

 at periods of the year best calculated for obser- 

 vations in natural history. To this are added 

 a detail of such incidents as appeared to the 

 Author worthy of notice, while visiting Batavia, 

 Singapore, China, &c. on his return to England. 

 The writer in his narrative has limited himself 

 principally, if not entirely, to the notes taken at 

 the instant of observation, his object being to 

 relate facts in the order they occurred ; and, 

 without regard to studied composition, to impart 

 the information he has been enabled to collect 

 in simple and unadorned language, avoiding, as 

 much as possible, the technicalities of science. 



London, Junk. 1834. 



