62' SURVEY OF TFIE INTERTRQPICAL 
1881 . the jolly-boat conveyed the baricas to her as they 
Aug. 6. were filled, but even the latter could not get within 
three hundred yards of the water, so that the 
people had to carry the baricas over the rugged 
bed of the river for that distance, which made the 
work laborious and slow; still, however, it was 
much less distressing than the fatigue of water-, 
ing from the cascade in Prince Regent’s River. 
At night a successful haul of the seine supplied 
our people with abundance of fish, among which 
were mullets, weighing from three to five pounds; 
cavallos, whitings, silver fish, breams, and two 
species of guard-fish. 
7 . While our people were^ employed the next 
morning in washing the decks, they heard at a 
distance the voices of natives ; at eight o’clock 
they were again heard, and at ten o’clock they 
were close by ; shortly afterwards three, of whom 
one was a woman, were seen standing on the rocks 
waving their arms. Being curious to communicate 
with the inhabitants of this part of the coast, since 
we had not seen any between this and Vansittart 
Bay, a party, consisting of the surgeon, Mr. Bed- 
well, Mr. Baskerville, and myself, went on shore 
to the place where the natives were seated wait- 
ing for us. Bundell, who generally accompanied 
us on these occasions divested of his clothes, 
stood up in the bow of the boat, and, as we 
