Groote Eylcindt.~\ TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
white ground of the rock. These drawings represented porpoises, 
turtle, kanguroos, and a human hand ; and Mr. Westall, who went Friday 14. 
afterwards to see them, found the representation of a kanguroo, 
with a file of thirty-two persons following after it. The third per- 
son of the band was twice the height of the others, and held in his 
hand something resembling the whaddie, or wooden sword of the 
natives of Port Jackson ; and was probably intended to represent 
a chief. They could not, as with us, indicate superiority by clothing 
or ornament, since they wear none of any kind ; and therefore, with 
the addition of a weapon, similar to the ancients, they seem to have 
made superiority of person the principal emblem of superior power, 
of which, indeed, power is usually a consequence in the very early 
Stages of society. 
A sea breeze had sprung up from the eastward, and the ship 
was under way when we returned on board at three in the afternoon. 
At five we hauled round Chasm Island with 12 fathoms water, 
which diminished gradually as we proceeded up the bay, to 4^, 
where the anchor was dropped on a muddy bottom ; the south-west 
end of Chasm Island then bore N. 16 0 E., three or four miles, and the 
cliffy end of a smaller isle on the west side of the entrance, N. 29 0 W. 
two miles and a half; and except between these two bearings, we were 
sheltered from all winds. The situation of this bay in Groote Eylandt, 
led me to give it the name of North-west Bay. It is formed on the 
east and south by that island ; and on the west by a separate piece 
of land, five or six miles long, which, in honour ot the noble pos- 
sessor of Burley Park, in the county of Rutland, I named Winchilsea 
Island; and a small isle of greater elevation, lying a short mile to 
the east of the ship, was called Finch's Island. 
Early next morning the botanists landed on Groote Eylandt, Saturday 15. 
and I went to Finch’s Island with the second lieutenant, to take 
bearings and astronomical observations. From the western head, I 
saw that the bay extended six or eight miles above the ship, to the 
southward, and that the southern outlet, beyond Winchilsea Island, 
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