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CHAPTER IX. 



Refitting Ship at Sydney— Mr. Haswell joins us — We proceed North- 

 wards along East Coast of Australia— Port Curtis, Queensland — 

 A "Labour Vessel" — Mr. Eastlake — Marine Fauna abundant — 

 Festivities at Gladstone — Birds — Percy Islands — Survey of Port 

 Molle — Queensland Aborigines — " Black Police " — " Dispersing" 

 Black fellows — Dredging Operations — A Parasitic Shell-fish — Port 

 Denison — Visit to a Native Camp — Throwing the Boomerang — A 

 Beche-de-mer Establishment at Lizard Island — Hostility of the 

 Natives — Drawings by Aborigines at Clack Island — Albany Island, 

 North-Eastern Australia 180 — 193 



CHAPTER X. 



Settlement at Thursday Island — Torres Straits Islanders — Pearl-Shell 

 Fisheries — Value of the Shell — Pearls not abundant — Neighbouring 

 Islands — Lizards — Landcrab — Landshells — Ferns — Birds — Booby 

 Island — Arrive at Port Darwin, North-Western Australia — Sub- 

 marine Cables — Trans-continental Telegraph — Palmerston — North- 

 ern Territory Goldfields — Aborigines at Port Darwin — Marine Fauna 

 — Birds — Geese perching on Trees 194 — 208 



CHAPTER XI. 



Voyage from Port Darwin to Singapore-— Through the Eastern Archi- 

 pelago — We arrive at Singapore — Oceanic "Tiderips" — Bird 

 Island, Seychelles — Seabirds on Land — Port Mahe, Seychelles — 

 The Coco-de-Mer — Gigantic Tortoise — Produce of the Islands — 

 Vanilla — A Primitive Crushing-mill — Dredging Operations — 

 Periophthalmus — The Seychelles, of Granitic Structure— We visit 

 the Amirante Group— African Islands — Abundance of Orbitolites — 

 Crabs pursued by Eels — Eagle Island — Partridge shooting — Young 

 Lizards — Darros Island — Casuarinas — Dredging — Poivre Island — 

 Trees and Shrubs — Isle des Roches — Flora scanty — Land-birds — 

 General Remarks on the Amirantes as a Group — u Fringing Reefs," 

 but no "Barrier Reefs"— Signs of Elevation— Weather and Lee 

 Sides contrasted 209 — 229 



