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CHAPTER V. 



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Two wrecks on the Barrier — Appearance of Scurvy — Fall in with 

 Merchantmen and supplies — Beauty of coral reefs— Grandeur of 

 surf — Night scene from the wreck of the Martha Ridgway— Sir C. 

 Hardy's Islands and Cape Grenville — Raine's Islet— Murray Islands 

 — Mount Adolphus — Booby Island . . 115 



CHAPTER VI. 



Cape York — Native tombs — Evans' Bay — Hut and bundle of bones — 

 Meeting with Natives — Their characters — Another party of a dif- 

 ferent tribe — Comatulse — Method of preserving Echinodermat;i — 

 Habits of Lingula— Possession Islands— Megapodius mounds— Port 

 Lihou — The N.W. Monsoon— Islands of Torres Strait — Geological 

 structure — Turtle-backed Island — Migration of birds . .136 



CHAPTER VII. 



Island of Oomaga — Interview with Natives— Damood — Interview with 

 Natives — Their houses, gardens, water-holes — Curious pipe — 

 Masseed — Interview with Natives — Old Garia — Houses — Curious 

 carving of Bird and Fish — Darnley Island, or Erroob — Its aspect — 

 Interview with Natives — Their houses, gardens, tortoise-shell masks, 

 wigs, bows and arrows, drum, images, yams, tobacco, sugar-cane — 

 Walk over the Island— Its volcanic origin — Height by Barometric 

 Measurement — Numerals used by the people . . .158 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The Murray Islands — Friendliness of the people — Purchase of skulls — 

 Search after a " Barreet" — Geological structure of the Murray 

 Islands, Erroob and Caedha — Volcanic origin — Second visit to 

 Erroob — Way of using the bow — Doodegab's sisters — New Guinea, 

 called Dowdee by the Erroobians — Names of places in D wdee — 

 Anchor off Bristow Island on the South Coast of New Guinea — Low 

 muddy shore — Canoes — Mouth of a large river — A body of five 

 hundred natives seen — Two boats sent away — Anchor under 

 Bramble Key — Return to New Guinea Coast— Ship's cutter nearly 

 swamped— Gale of wind— Anxiety for our boats — Aird's Hill . 195 



CHAPTER IX. 



Search after the missing boats — Cruise in the first gig — Enter a River 

 — Interview with Natives at its mouth— Penetrate fifteen miles into 



