CHAPTER IV. 



ROCKINGHAM BAY — GOULD ISLAND — MOUNT HINCHINBROOK 



PASSAGE INTO HALIFAX BAY RANGE OF HILLS ON 



MAINLAND — STREAMS OF FRESH WATER — NATIVES AT 



FIRST FRIENDLY AFTERWARDS HOSTILE LIST OF NATIVE 



WORDS ENDEAVOUR RIVER — GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE — 



LIZARD ISLAND — GRANITIC PUMICE PEBBLES — SLEEP ON 

 ITS SUMMIT— SEE OUR SHADOWS IN THE FOG — COMMENCE 

 THE SURVEY OF THE NORTHERN END OF THE BARRIER 

 REEFS — CAPE MELVILLE — APPARENT FRIENDSHIP BUT 



TREACHEROUS ATTACK OF NATIVES— ASPECT OF REEFS 



DEEP WATER OUTSIDE LAND ON CAPE DIRECTION — TREA- 

 CHERY OF NATIVES— DEATH OF BAYLEY. 



May 19 to June 1, 1843. — The next part we 

 visited was Rockingham Bay, where we stayed a 

 fortnight surveying. We anchored near Gould 

 Island, where we were supplied with abundance of 

 excellent water, from several perpetual rills that 

 trickled down the rocky sides of the hill, and tra- 

 versed a small plain at its foot. The peak of Gould 

 Island is nearly 1,400 feet above the sea, and it 

 appears to be an excellent condenser of the moisture 

 of the S.E. trade wind, as a wreath of cloud often 

 rests upon its summit. To the S.W. of it, about 

 five miles distant, is Mount Hinchin brook, about 

 2,500 feet in height. This is the most singularly 

 broken mass of hills I ever saw, covered with rugged 

 knolls, and sharp inaccessible pinnacles, and fur- 

 rowed by deep and precipitous gullies and ravines. 



