CHAPTER III. 



BAIL ON OtTE SECO>"D irOETHEEX CETJIZE — ENTEANCE TO THE 

 IN>-EE PASSAOE— AEBITE AT BOCKiyGHAAf BAT — LAND ME. 

 KE^-^-EDT's EXPEDITiajf — COMME^'CE THE STTETET AT 

 DrXK ISLA>-D— COMMUiS-ICATION WITH NATIVES —BAENAED 

 ISLES — BOTANTCAL SKETCH— EXAMINE A FEW ErVEE — 



feanb:la>'d isles — eind the cocoA-xrT palsi— eitzeot 



ISLAND — the will o' THE WISP AND HEE STORT — 

 TEINITX bat — animals op a COEAL beef — STAT AT 

 LIZAED ISLAND — HOWIC'K, PELICAN, AND CLAEEIIONT ISLES 

 — BIED ISLES — IIEET PABTT OP NATIVES IN DISTEESS — 

 CAIENCEOSS ISLAND — AEEITE AT CAPE TOEK. 



April 29^A.— The season for passing' through 

 ToiTes Strait from the southward having- arrived, 

 we left Port Jackson on a ten-months cruize, in 

 order to complete the survey of the Inner Passag^e, 

 or the clear channel between the north-east coast of 

 Austraha and the inner edge of the outer reefs, 

 which again are bounded to seaward by the Great 

 Barrier Reef, stretching from north to south, for a 

 distance of upwards of 1000 miles. 



In the evening we were joined by the Tam 

 O'Shanter, a barque having on board a colonial 

 o^'erland exjjedition under Mr. Kennedy, which we 

 are to accompany to Rockingham Bay, 1200 miles 



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