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3rd May; thence Kent’s Group (4th), and away to Port Jacksoix, which 
was reached on May 9th. 
Thus ended Australian Voyage No. 1, and as Brown was aboard, 
this voyage is of special interest to Australian botanists. 
Second Australian Voyage . — Flinders then left Port .Jackson for the 
north on 22nd July. 1802, in the “ Investigator,” with the brig “ Lady 
Nelson ” (Lieut. John Murray) as a tender. The rendez^’ous was 
Sandy Cape, the south head of Hervey Bay, Queensland, which was 
reached on the 30th. Here botanical specimens were collected. On 
oth August landed near Port Curtis, the botanist (Brosvn) collecting 
here till the 8th. On the 12th with Mr. Brown at eastern arm of 
Keppel Bay. 21st, Port Bowen (botanical work was done here). On 
the 25th at Northumberland Isles. Still in Shoalwater Bay on the 
29th, where botanising was done, including an excursion to Pine Mount, 
and remained here till 4th September ; at Thirsty Sound on the 5th, 
“ the botanists landed on the east shore.” On the 9th botanising at 
Broad Sound. Thence to Percy Isles, 28th September. Amongst the 
Cumberland Isles by 16th October. The last of the Barrier Reef out 
of sight on October 21st. then away through Torres Strait to the Gulf 
of Carpentaria. Murray’s Islands, Torres Straits, 30th October. On 
2nd November Good’s Island was named after Peter Good, and 
botanising was done here. 
The east coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria was then examined and 
botanising done. Coen River, 7th November; Sweer’s Island, 17th. 
Wellesley’s Islands, 1st to 7th December, where Flinders found the 
“ Investigator’s ” timbers rotten, and thereupon decided to return to 
Port Jackson as soon as convenient, but determined to finish his survey 
of the Gulf of Carpentaria if possible. 
By the 15th they were at Sir Edward Pellew’s Group, and some 
collecting took place here. Then off Limmen’s Bight at the close of 
the year, and 5th to 20th January, 1803, occupied in circumna^^gating 
Groote Eylandt. Flinders gives several notes in regard to the collecting 
grounds of “ the botanists ” in the Gulf of Carpentaria. 
At Point Blane, north of Blue Mud Bay, on 27th January, Brown 
was benighted whilst botanising, and found next day. 
4th February, near Caledon Bay, was another botanising ground. 
On leaving Caledon Bay on the 10th, course was shaped for Cape 
Arnhem. 11th; Melville Bay, 16th; the Enghsh Company’s Islands, 
19th; Arnhem Bay, 5th March; and the Wessel’s Islands, 6th March; 
thence to Timor, arriving at Coepang 31st March, 1803. 
Departure was made from Coepang on 8th April, and a westward 
course was shaped, Australia being thus circumnavigated. Dysentery 
broke out on board the “ Investigator,” and amongst its Auctims was 
Peter Good, who died at Port Jackson shortly after Flinders’ arrival 
