CHAPTER IV. 



VICTORIA RIVER TO SWAN RIVER. 



LBAVE POINT PEARCE — ERROR IN POSITION OF CAPE RUIL- 

 HI^RES — OBTAIN SOUNDINGS ON SUPPOSED SAHUL SHOAL 



DISCOVER A SHOAL PATCH ON IT ASCERTAIN EXTENT 



OF BANK OF SOUNDINGS OFF THE AUSTRALIAN SHORE 



STRANGE WINDS IN MONSOON — SEE SCOTt's REEF — 



DISCOVER ERROR IN ITS POSITION MAKE DEPUCH 



ISLAND — PREVALENCE OF WESTERLY WINDS NEAR IT — 

 SPERM WHALES — TEDIOUS PASSAGE — DEATH AND BURIAL 

 OF THE ship's COOK — ANECDOTES OF HIS LIFE — GOOD 



LAND FALL ARRIVAL AT SWAN RIVER FIND COLONY 



IMPROVED HOSPITALITY OF COLONISTS — LIEUT. ROe's 



ACCOUNT OF HIS RESCUING CAPT. GREy's PARTY — BURIAL 

 OF MR. SMITH — HURRICANE AT SHARKS BAY — OBSERVA- 

 TIONS ON DRY APPEARANCE OF UPPER SWAN — UN- 

 SUCCESSFUL CRUISE OF CHAMPION — VISIT ROTTENEST — 

 FIX ON A HILL FOR THE SITE OF A LIGHTHOUSE — 



ABORIGINAL CONVICTS PROTECTORS OF NATIVES 



AMERICAN WHALERS — MIAGO — TREES OF WESTERN AUS- 

 TRALIA — ON THE SAFETY OF GAGE ROADS. 



December 12. — By this day Mr. Bynoe thought 

 I was sufficiently recovered to be able to bear the 

 motion of the ship at sea, and we accordingly sailed 

 in the morning for Swan River. 



Standing out from Point Pearce we had a better 

 view, than on our first approach, of the coast 



