CONTENTS. V 



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— Good Friday Harbour — Lizards on Rat Island — Coral formation — 

 Snapper Bank — Zeewyk Passage — Discoveries on Gun Island — The 

 Mangrove Islets — Singular Sunset — Heavy gale — Wallaby Islands — 

 Flag Hill — Slaughter Point — Observations of Mr. Bynoe on the 

 Marsupiata — General character of the reefs — Tidal observations — 

 Visit North Island — Leave Houtman's Abrolhos — General observa- 

 tions—Proceed to Depiich Island — Drawings on the rocks — Native 

 youth — New bird and kangaroo — Effects of Mirage — Examine coast 

 to the Turtle Isles— Geographe Shoals — Number of turtle — Bedout 

 Island — Scott's Reef — Approach to Timor — Pulo Douw — Scene on 

 entering Coepang Bay — Surprise of Swan River native — Visit to the 

 Resident — His stories— Fort Concordia — Second visit to the Resident 

 — The Timorees — Arrive at Pritie — Description of the country — 

 Muster of the shooting party — Success of the excursion — The Ja- 

 vanese Commandant — Character of the Timorees — Dutch settlement 

 in New Guinea — Leave Coepang — Island of Rottee — Tykal Inlet — 

 Inhabitants of Pulo Douw .... 134 



CHAPTER VI. 



Sail from Rottee — Search for shoal — Dampier's Archipelago — Exa- 

 mination of coast — Strange weather — Natives — Passage between 

 Delambre and Huiy Islands — Proceed to Montebello Isles — Descrip- 

 tion of them — Barrow's Island^ — Tryal Rocks — New kangaroo — Abun- 

 dance of turtle — New wallaby — Sail for Swan River — Find Ritchie's 

 Reef — Islands between Barrow's and N.W. Cape — Table of sound- 

 ings — Swan River Native — Anchor under Uottenest — Vocabulary — 

 Erect beacons — Bad weather — Habits of a native dog — Geological 

 observations — Sail from Swan River — Error in position of Cape 

 Naturaliste — King George's Sound — Appearance of Bald Head — 

 Princess Royal Harbour — Origin of settleinent — Town of Albany — 

 Salubrity of climate — Excursion into interior — Course a kangaroo — 

 Pitfalls — Herds of kangaroos— Rich country — The Hay River —Re- 

 turn to Albany — Departure for South Australia — Discover an Island 

 — Death of a seaman — Position of Neptune Isles — Kangaroo, Al- 

 thorp and Quoin Islands — Holdfast Road — Adelaide — Description of 

 country — Governor Gawler's policy — Visit the Port — Mr. Eyre's ex- 

 pedition — Hardships of Overlanders — Cannibalism — Meet Captain 

 Start — Native schools — System of etlucation — Sail for Sydney — 

 Squalls — Error in coast— Bass Strait — Arrive at Sydney . 203 



CHAPTER VII. 



Land Sales — Unsettled boundaries — New Zealand — Hunter River — 

 Midnight alarm— Ludicrous scene — Changes in Officers of ship — 

 Leave Sydney — Port Stephen — Corrobory— Gale at Cape Ujjsturt — 



