JOURNAL 



VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. 



CHAPTER I. 



LEAVE PORT ESSINGTON — CLARENCE STRAIT — HOPE INLET — 

 SHOAL BAY — LAND FOR OBSERVATIONS — EXPLORE A NEW 

 OPENING — TALC HEAD — PORT DARWIN — CONTINUE EX- 

 PLORATION — MUSQUITOES AND SAND-FLIES — NATURE OF 

 THE COUNTRY — ITS PARCHED APPEARANCE — LARGE 

 ANt's NEST — RETURN TO SHOAL BAY — VISIT FROM THE 



NATIVES — REMARKS — THEIR TEETH PERFECT RITE OF 



CIRCUMCISION OBSERVATIONS ON THE MIGRATIONS OF 



THE NATIVES — THEORY OF AN INLAND SEA — CENTRAL 

 DESERT — SALT WATER DRANK BY NATIVES — MODES OF 

 PROCURING WATER — SURVEY THE HARBOUR — NATIVES ON 

 A RAFT — ANECDOTE BYNOE HARBOUR — WELL BRIL- 

 LIANT METEORS — NATIVES ON POINT EMERY — THEIR SUR- 

 PRISE AT THE WELL — IMPORTANCE OF WATER — ANECDOTE 



— LANGUAGES OF AUSTRALIA — SPECIMENS REMARKS — ■ 



LEAVE PORT DARWIN — TIDES — SQUALL — VISIT PORT PAT- 

 TERSON — LEAVE — EXAMINE OPENING TO THE SOUTH-WEST 



— TABLE HILL — M'ADAM RANGE — ADVENTURE WITH AN AL- 

 LIGATOR — EXPLORING PARTY — DISCOVERY OF THE VICTORIA 

 — ASCEND THE RIVER — APPEARANCE OF THE COUNTRY — 

 FITZMAURICE RIVER — INDIAN HILL — THE BEAGLE TAKEN 

 UP THE RIVER. 



Early on the morning of the 4th of September, 

 1839, the Beagle was once more slipping out of Port 



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