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Lieutenant Vallack visits the Alligator Rivers.
Interview with Natives. Prospects of Port Essington. Lieutenant
Stewart's Route. Climate. Remarks of Mr. Bynoe. Harbour of refuge.
Sail from Port Essington. Sahul Shoal. Arrive at Coepang. Timorees.
Sail for North-west Coast. Strong winds. Cape Bossut. Exploration of
North-west Coast. View of Interior. Birds. Solitary Island. Visit the
Shore. Amphinome Shoals. Bedout Island. Breaker Inlet. Exmouth
Gulf. Arrive at Swan River.
CHAPTER 2.
12.
Reported Harbour. Set out for Australind. The Grass-tree.
Correspondence with Mr. Clifton, etc. Sail from Gage Road.
Examination of coast. Reach Champion Bay. Visit Mount Fairfax and
Wizard Peak. Arid nature of country. Want of water. Native Grave. The
Greenough river. Natives. Leave Champion Bay. Koombanah Bay.
Naturaliste Reef. Reach South Australia. Port Adelaide. Proposed
Railroad. Visit Mount Barker. Encounter Bay. Native fishing. Return to
Adelaide. Sail from South Australia. Portland Bay. Squatters. Tour in
the interior. Fertile country. View from the Sugarloaf. Visit Cape
Bridgewater. Sail for Hobart. Liberality of Sir John Franklin.
Atmospheric changes. Arrive at Sydney.
CHAPTER 2.
13.
Exploration of Interior. Twofold Bay. Survey of Bass Strait. Dangerous
situation of the Beagle. Kent and Hogan Groups. Gipps Land. Wilson's
Promontory. The Tamar. Eastern entrance of Strait. Steam
communication between India and Australia. New Guinea. Straitsmen.
North coast of Tasmania. Aborigines. Port Phillip. Directions for ships

passing King Island. Complete survey of Bass Strait. Farewell to
Sydney. Moreton Bay. The Comet. State of Tasmania, or Van Diemen's
Land. Lighthouses in Bass Strait.
CHAPTER 2.
14. AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND.
Sail from Tasmania. The South-west Cape. Monument to Flinders.
Rottnest Island. Lighthouse. Penal Establishment. Longitude of
Fremantle. Final departure from Western Australia. Rodrigue Island.
Effects of a hurricane at Mauritius. The crew and passengers of a
foundered vessel saved. Bourbon. Madagascar. Simon's Bay. Deep sea
soundings. Arrival in England. Take leave of the Beagle. The
Surveying service.
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APPENDIX. WINDS AND WEATHER ON THE WESTERN AND
NORTHERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. BY COMMANDER J.C.
WICKHAM, R.N.
LIST OF CHARTS.
VOLUME 2.
VICTORIA RIVER.
GULF OF CARPENTARIA.
ALBERT RIVER.
PART OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
PORT ADELAIDE AND HOLDFAST BAY.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOLUME 2.

MESSRS. FITZMAURICE AND KEYS DANCING FOR THEIR
LIVES. L.R. Fitzmaurice, del. London, Published by T. & W. Boone,
1846.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF SEA RANGE.
HEAD AND FEET OF ALLIGATOR.
KILLING AN ALLIGATOR, VICTORIA RIVER. G. Gore, del.
London, Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
WICKHAM HEIGHTS FROM TORTOISE REACH.
CAPTAIN STOKES SPEARED AT POINT PEARCE. C. Martens, del.
London, Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
GOUTY-STEM TREE.
FRUIT OF GOUTY-STEM TREE. Section of fruit, showing the
manner in which the seeds are disposed.
VIEWS OF MORESBY'S RANGE, SEA RANGE, AND CAPE
BEDFORD. Moresby's Range, West Coast, latitude 28 degrees 50
minutes South. Sea Range, Victoria River, North-west Coast, latitude
15 degrees 20 minutes South. Cape Bedford, North-east Coast, latitude
15 degrees 10 minutes South.
ANCIENT DUTCH GUN. Dutch Four-pounder, with moveable
chamber.
NATIVE DRAWINGS. Lithographic impression of the copies made by
Captain Wickham of the native drawings on Depuch Island. They have
already appeared in the Royal Geographical Journal Volume 12. The
following list will convey to the reader what the drawings are intended
to represent. 1. A goose or duck. 2. A bird; probably the leipoa. 6. A
beetle. 11. A fish over a quarter-moon; which has been considered to
have some reference to fishing by moonlight. 61. A native dog. 16. A
native, armed with spear and wommera, or throwing stick, probably

relating his adventures, which is usually done by song, and
accompanied with great action and flourishing of weapons, particularly
when boasting of his prowess. 20. A duck and a gull. 34. A corrobory,
or native dance. 65. A crab. 30. A native in a hut, with portion of the
matting with which they cover their habitations. 67. A kangaroo. 71.
Appears to be a bird of prey, having seized upon a kangaroo-rat. 32.
Shark and pilot-fish.
COEPANG FROM THE ANCHORAGE. G. Gore, del. London,
Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
PASSING BETWEEN BALD HEAD AND VANCOUVER REEF. G.
Gore, del. London, Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
ENTRANCE OF VAN DIEMEN'S INLET. G. Gore, del. London,
Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
INTERESTING TREE.
BURIAL REACH, FLINDERS RIVER. G. Gore, del. London,
Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
UPWARD VIEW OF HOPE REACH, ALBERT RIVER. G. Gore, del.
London, Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
FIRST VIEW OF THE PLAINS OF PROMISE, ALBERT RIVER. G.
Gore, del.
LAST VIEW OF THE PLAINS OF PROMISE, ALBERT RIVER. G.
Gore, del. London, Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.
APPROACH TO PORTLAND BAY. Cape Nelson, Cape Grant,
Lawrence Isles East-North-East nine miles.
DANGEROUS SITUATION OF BEAGLE. A.J. Mason Sc.
DEVIL'S TOWER. 350 feet high, West, two miles.
KILLING A KANGAROO. A.J. Mason