CPIAPTER II. 



AEBIVE AT STDNET — BEAMBLE 18 ATTACHED TO THE EXPE- 

 DITION — STOTET E^TEASCE OE POET JACKSON AND TWO- 

 I'OLD BAT — BAIL UPON OTTB EIEST NOETHEEN OETJIZE — 



AEEITE AT MOEETON BAT— PEOCEEDINGS THEEE NATITE8 



AT MOEETON ISLAND — AEEITE AT POET CUETIS — SETTLE- 

 MENT OF NOETH AUSTEALIA EXCTJESIONS MADE IN NEISH- 



BOTJEHOOD NATTTEAL PEODITCTIONS — CALL AT THE PEECT 



ISLES — POET MOLLE AND CAPE TPSTAET ITNABLE TO PIND 



PEESH WATEE — EETUEN TO SYDNEY EECENT OCCUEEENCES 



THEEE — SAIL EOE BASS'S STEAIT — TISIT POET PHILLIP AlTD 

 POET DALEYMPLE — INSPECT THE LIGHTHOUSES OP THE 

 STEAIT, 



"VVe left Hobart Town for Sydney on July Sth. 

 On the night of the 16th^ saw the fine revolving 

 light on the South Head of Port Jackson, and next 

 morning anchored at Farm Cove. Our stay in 

 Sydney was protracted to a period of nearly three 

 months. During this time, m consequence of pre- 

 vious arrangements, the schooners Bramble, Lieut. 

 C. B. Yule, and Castlereagh, Lieut. D. Aird, were 

 paid oiF. Both these vessels had been left in 

 December, 1845, by Capt. F. P. Blackwood, of 

 H.M.S Fly, to continue the survey of New Guinea, 

 (as wUl afterwards be more particularly alluded to), 

 and had long been awaiting our arrival. The 

 Castlereagh, originally purchased in Sydney, being 



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