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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
CHAPTER IX. 
Equipment for the third voyage : — Leave Port Jackson : — Loss 
of bowsprit, and return : — Observations upon the present state 
of the colony, as regarding the effect of floods upon the River 
Hawkesbury : — Re-equipment and final departure : — Visit Port 
Bowen : — Cutter thrown upon a sand-bank : — Interview with the 
natives, and description of the country about Cape Clinton : — 
Leave Port Bowen: — Pass through the Northumberland, and 
round the Cumberland Islands: — Anchor at Endeavour Riven- 
Summary of observations taken there: — Visit from the natives: 
— Vocabulary of their language : — Observations thereon in com- 
paring it with Captain Cook’s account : — Mr. Cunningham visits 
Mount Cook: — Leave Endeavour River, and visit Lizard Island: 
— Cape Flinders and Pelican Island : — Entangled in the reefs: — 
Haggerston’s Island, Sunday Island, and Cairncross Island ; — 
Cutter springs a leak:— Pass round Cape York: — Endeavour 
Strait : — Anchor under Booby Island : — Remarks upon the Inner 
and Outer routes through Torres Strait. 
1820. In preparing our little vessel for a third voyage, 
June2i. it became requisite to give her a considerable 
repair ; and, among many other things, there was 
an absolute necessity for her being fresh cop- 
pered ; but, from the pretended scarcity of copper 
sheathing in the colony and other circumstances 
that opposed the measure, we found more than 
a common difficulty in effecting it. The cutter 
was careened at a place appointed for the pur- 
