CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



PAOS 



Two wrecks on the Barrier— Appearance of Scurvy— Full 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 — Kaiue's Islet — Murray Islands 

 — Mount Adolphus — Booby I stand . .115 



CHAPTER VI. 



Cape York— Native tombs — Evans* Bay—Hat and bundle of bone*— 

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

 ferent tribe — Coraatutee — Method of preserving Echinodermata— 

 Habits of Lingula — Possession Islands— Megapodius mounds — Port » 

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

 structure— Turtle-backed Island — Migration of birds . .138 



CHAPTER VII. 



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

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

 M&ssecd — Interview with Natives — Old Ganfa— 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 — 

 Walkover the Island — Its volcanic origin— Height by Barometric 

 Measurement — Numerals used by the people . . . 156 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The Murray Islands— Friendliness of Ihe 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 Bristnw 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 . 105 



CHAPTER IX, 



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

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



