Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 | Page 3

Amphinome Shoals. Bedout Island. Breaker Inlet. Exmouth Gulf. Arrive at Swan River.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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VICTORIA RIVER.
GULF OF CARPENTARIA.
ALBERT RIVER.
PART OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
PORT ADELAIDE AND HOLDFAST BAY.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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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 Sc.
HUMMOCK ISLAND. Highest part 400 feet, bearing South-East 20 miles.
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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.
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Leave Port Essington. Clarence Strait. Hope Inlet. Shoal Bay. Land for Observations. Explore a new Opening. Talc Head. Port Darwin. Continue Exploration. Mosquitoes and Sandflies. Nature of the Country. Its parched appearance. Large ant's nest. Return to Shoal Bay. Visit from the Natives. Remarks. Their teeth perfect. Rite of Circumcision. Observations on the Migrations of the Natives. Theory of an Inland Sea. Central Desert. Salt water drunk by Natives. Modes of procuring water. Survey the harbour. Natives on a raft.