180 LIEUTENANT C. B. YtJLE. 



weapons were observed to be bows and arrows and 

 wooden sword-like clubs.* 



In the following- year, a further addition to the 

 survey of the south-east coast of New Guinea was 

 made by Lieut. C. B. Yule, while in command of 

 H.M. schooners Bramble and Castlereagh. This 

 survey was commenced at Cape Possession, and 

 continued to the westward and northward as far as 

 Cape Blackwood, where the Fly's work ended, a 

 distance equal to two degrees of longitude-t Many 

 large river mouths were observed, the fresh water on 

 one occasion extending- two or three miles out to 

 sea. The country had ceased to present the low 

 monotonous appearance shewn to the westward, and 

 had become more broken with wooded hills, and on 

 the extreme east, rang'es of lofty mountains were 

 seen in the distance ; one of these (Mount Yule) 

 attains an elevation of 10,046 feet. Landing was 

 attempted only once, on which occasion the whole 

 party, — their two boats having; been capsized in the 

 surf, and their ammunition destroyed, — were set upon 

 by a larg-e body of natives and plundered of every- 

 thing-, even to their clothes, but not otherwise 

 injured, althoug'h completely at the mercy of these 

 savages. 



In company with the Bramble we sailed from 



* Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly, com- 

 manded by Captain F. P. Blackwood, R.N. by J. B. Jukes, 

 Naturalist to the Expedition, vol. i. p. 282, &c. 



t See A-dmiralty Chart, No. 1914. 



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