CHAPTER VI. 



CAPE YORK — NATIVE TOMBS — EVANS' BAY — HUT AND BUNDLE 

 OF BONES — MEETING WITH NATIVES — THEIR CHARACTERS 



ANOTHER PARTY OF A DIFFERENT TRIBE COMATUL^ 



METHOD OF PRESERVING ECHINODERMATA — 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. 



In the year 1844 we again ran from Sydney, 

 along the North-east coast up to Raine's Islet, and 

 built a beacon on it.* During the latter part of the 

 time occupied in building this, the Bramble was 

 detached to make a complete survey of Endeavour 

 Strait. Mr. Macgillivray (Lord Derby's naturalist), 

 Mr. Melville our artist, and myself, tired of remain- 

 ing in inaction near Raine's Islet, got permission to 

 accompany her, and were kindly and hospitably 

 entertained by Lieut. Yule and his officers, for more 

 than a month on board of her. 



August 20, 1844. — We landed on Cape York 

 Island, a small rocky hill, not quite 300 feet high, 

 steep and nearly conical, separated from the land 

 by a narrow boat passage merely. On its northern 



* An account of this beacon will be found in the abstract of 

 the voyage in the appendix. 



