CHAPTER II. 



SAIL FEOM CAPE TOEK— MOUNT EEKEST DESCEIBED — FIND 

 KULKAIEGA TEIBE ON SUE ISLAND — PEIENDLY EECEPTION 

 AT DAENLET ISLAND, AND PEOCEEDINGS THEEE— BEAMBLE 

 CAT AJSTD ITS TUETLB — STAT AT EEDSCAE BAT — EUETHEE 

 DESCEIPTION OF THE NATIVES, THEIE CANOES, ETC. — PASS 

 ALONG THE SOUTH-EAST COAST OE NEW GUINEA— CALL AT 

 DUCHATBAU ISLANDS — PASSAGE TO STDNET — GENEEAL 

 EEMAEKS EEGAEDING NEW GUINEA AND THE LOUISIADE 

 AECHIPELAGO — OBSEETATIONS ON GEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOOT 

 OEIGIN OP THE AUSTRALIANS CONSIDEEED. 



Dec. 8rd. — At length we have bade a final adieu 

 to Cape York^ after a stay of upwards of two 

 months^ which have passed away very pleasantly to 

 such of us as were in the habit of making- excursions 

 in the bush, or who spent much of their time on 

 shore. We are now on our way to Sydney, by 

 way of Torres Strait, New Guinea and the Louis- 

 iade, chiefly for the purpose of running- another set 

 of meridian distances, the position of Cape York 

 being- now sufiiciently well determined to serve as a 

 secondary meridian, one of the starting- points of the 

 survey. The natives learned at daylight that we 

 were to leave them in a few hours, so in order to 

 make the most of then- last opportunity of getting 

 bisiker and choka, they hauled a large canoe across 



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