PREFACE. 



The Work w«r giiriaa to Ite Public is tlic- result 

 (>f a ^ivYies of recent excumons into tlie interior 

 of the Colony of New South Wales, at intervals 

 of disengagement from professional duties, and 

 at periods of the year best c^tjssifeted for olistf- 

 vations in natural Usloi^. To this add^d 

 a detail of sneh inei dents as appeared to the 

 Avitlior wortliy of iiotiee, while visiting Batavia, 

 Singapore , Cliin;i, etc. on liis return to England. 



The writer in his narrative has limited himself 

 principally, if not entirely, to not^ tak^ ^ 

 the itistazit obBerration^ Ms object being to 

 relate facts in the order tliey occurred ; and, 

 witliout regard to studied composition, to impart 

 the inlbrination lie has been enalded to collect 

 in simple and unadorned languagCj avoidingj as 

 vamh as possible, iha teclmiealitaes of seleace* 



London, Ju^ne, 1834^ 



