CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER VIII. 



PAO-r. 

 Rescue a white Woman from Captivity among the Natives — Her History 



— Bramble and boats complete the Survey of Torres Sti-ait — Wini 



and the Mulgrave Islanders — Intercourse with the Cape York Natives 



— Nearly quarrel with them at a night dance — Witness a Native 



fight — Discover some fine country — Incidents of our stay — Many 



new Birds found — Remarks on the CUmate, &c. of Cape York . 301 



APPENDIX. 



Observations on the Temperature of the Sea, made during the Voyage 

 of H. M.S. Rattlesnake, Dec. 1846— July, 1847, by Lieut. J. Day- 

 man, R.N. . .... 329 



Abstracts of Meridian Distances measured during the Voyage of 

 H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1847-50, by Capt. Owen Stanley, R.N., 

 F.R.S., and Lieut. C.B. Ydle, R.N. . . .331 



Observations of the Mean Magnetic Inclination, made on shore in the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, by Lieut. J. Dayman, R.N. . 337 



Account of the Polyzoa and Sertularian Zoophytes, collected in the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, by George Busk, Esq. F.R.S. 343 



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