CONTENTS. 
V 
Encounter Bay — Reach the beach — Large flocks of water fowl — 
Curious refraction — State of provisions — Embarrassing situation 
— Inspection of the channel to the ocean — Weak condition of the 
men — Difficulties of the return. - Page 1.51 
CHAPTER VII. 
Valley of the Murray — Its character and capabilities — Laborious 
progress up the river — Accident to the boat — Perilous collision 
with the natives — Turbid current of the Rufus — Passage of the 
Rapids — Assisted by the natives — Dangerous intercourse with 
them — Re-enter the Morumbidgee — Verdant condition of its 
banks — Nocturnal rencounter with the natives — Interesting mani- 
festation of feeling in one family — Reach the spot where the party 
had embarked on the river — Men begin to fail entirely — Deter- 
mine to send two men forward for relief — Their return — Excur- 
sion on horseback — Reach Pondebadgery Plain, and meet the 
supplies from the colony — Cannibalism of the natives — Return to 
Sidney — Concluding remarks. - Page 180 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Environs of the lake Alexandrina — Appointment of Capt. Barker to 
make a further survey of the coast near Encounter Bay — Nar- 
rative of his proceedings — Mount Lofty, Mount Barker, and 
beautiful country adjacent — Australian salmon — Survey of the 
coast — Outlet of lake to the sea — Circumstances that led to the 
slaughter of Capt. Barker by the natives — His character — Features 
of this part of the country and capabilities of its coasts — Its adap- 
tation for colonization — Suggestions for the furtherance of future 
Expeditions. ----- Page 229 
APPENDIX. 
No. I. Geological Specimens found to the south-west of Port 
Jackson . page 249 
No. II. Official Report to the Colonial Government 257 
