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TRANSGRESSIONS.

CHAPTER 13.
SOCIAL CONDITION AND DOMESTIC HABITS.
POPULATION. TERM OF LIFE. CONDITION OF OLD AGE. AND
OF YOUNG WOMEN. AVERAGE PROPORTION OF BIRTHS.
IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. INFLUENCE OF POLYGAMY ON
SOCIAL HABITS. MODE OF CONVERSATIONAL
INTERCOURSE. CONSEQUENCES OF JEALOUSY. DANCES.
CEREMONIES ON MEETING.

CHAPTER 14.
FOOD AND HUNTING.
ERRORS REGARDING SCARCITY OF THEIR FOOD. VARIETIES
OF IT IN DIFFERENT LATITUDES. CAUSES OF OCCASIONAL
WANT. LIST OF EDIBLE ARTICLES. IMPLEMENTS FOR
DESTROYING ANIMALS. CONTENTS OF A NATIVE WOMAN'S
BAG. DIFFERENT METHODS OF CATCHING KANGAROOS.
COOKING A KANGAROO. METHODS OF TAKING AND
COOKING FISH. FEASTING ON A STRANDED WHALE.
KILLING WILD DOGS. TURTLE. BIRDS. OPOSSUMS. FROGS.
SHELLFISH. GRUBS, AND WALLABIES. EDIBLE ROOTS AND
SEEDS. MODE OF COOKING AND PREPARING THEM. FUNGI.
GUMS. COMMON RIGHTS IN CERTAIN FOOD.

CHAPTER 15.
SONGS AND POETRY.
GENERAL PRACTICE OF SINGING. SONG OF AN OLD MAN IN
WRATH. POETS. TRADITIONAL SONGS. NATIVE OPINION OF
EUROPEAN SINGING. EXAMPLES OF SONGS FOR VARIOUS

OCCASIONS. INFLUENCE OF SONGS IN ROUSING THE ANGRY
PASSIONS OF THE MEN.

CHAPTER 16.
FUNERAL CEREMONIES, SUPERSTITIONS, AND
REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.
DEATH AND BURIAL OF A NATIVE NEAR PERTH. BURIAL OF
A NATIVE IN THE LESCHENAULT DISTRICT. CUSTOM OF
LACERATING THEMSELVES, AND WATCHING AMONG THE
GRAVES. THE BOYL-YAS OR NATIVE SORCERERS. KAIBER'S
ACCOUNT OF THEM. THEIR OPINION OF THE NIGHTMARE.
VENERATION FOR CRYSTAL STONES. CIRCUMCISION.
OTHER CUSTOMS.

CHAPTER 17.
CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES.
MIAGO'S IMAGINARY SPEECH AS GOVERNOR. WARRUP'S
ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY WITH MR. ROE. TRANSACTIONS
WITH THE NATIVES IN A CASE OF POTATO STEALING.
JUDICIAL CASE OF ASSAULT.

CHAPTER 18.
INFLUENCE OF EUROPEANS ON THE NATIVES.
CAUSES WHY IT HAS NOT HITHERTO BEEN BENEFICIAL.
WRETCHED STATE OF THE NATIVE POPULATION.
PREJUDICES AGAINST THEM. EVIL EFFECTS FROM THEIR
FEROCIOUS CUSTOMS REMAINING UNCHECKED. PLAN FOR
PROMOTING THEIR CIVILIZATION.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
1. Native of Western Australia. Captain Grey, delt. G. Foggo,
Lithographer. M. and N. Hanhart, Lithographic Printers.
2. Mount Victoria and Mount Albert.
3. Glaucus, Sp.

3a. Janthina.
4. Cymothoa, Sp.
5. Stenopteryx, Sp.
6. Form of basaltic dykes at Gregory's Valley, St. Helena.
7. Geological Section from Gregory's Valley, St. Helena.
8. Crossing Cattle over the Murray, near Lake Alexandrina. Drawn on
stone by George Barnard from a sketch by G. Hamilton, Esquire. M.
and N. Hanhart, Lithographic Printers, 64 Charlotte Street, Rathbone
Place.
9. Basaltic Rocks, Campaspi River, near Port Phillip. Drawn on stone
by George Barnard from a sketch by G. Hamilton, Esquire. M. and N.
Hanhart, Lithographic Printers, 64 Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place.
Published by T. & W. Boone, London.
REPTILES AND AMPHIBIA.
10.1. Ronia catenulata (Gray).
10.2. Aprasia pulchella (Gray).
10.3. Delma fraseri (Gray).
11.1. Lialis burtonii (Gray).
11.2. Soridia lineata (Gray).
12.1. Moloch horridus (Gray).
13.1. Elaps gouldii (Gray).
13.2. Elaps coronatus (Schlegel).
13.3. Calamaria diadema (Schlegel).
13.4. Lialis burtonii (Gray).
14. Hydraspis australis (Gray).
15. Chelodina oblonga (Gray).
16.1. Hyla binoculata (Gray).
16.2. Hyla adelaidensis (Gray).
17.1. Breviceps gouldii (Gray).
17.2. Helioporus albo punctatus (Gray). 17.2.a. fore foot. 17.2.b. hind
foot.
INSECTS.
18. INSECTS 1. Brachysternus (E.) lamprimoides.
19.1. INSECTS 2. Biphyllocera kirbyana.
19.2. INSECTS 2. Biphyllocera fabriciana.
20. INSECTS 3. Helaeus echidna.
21. INSECTS 4. Bardistus cibarius.

22. INSECTS 5. Tympanophora pellucida.
23. INSECTS 6. Choerocydnus foveolatus.
24. INSECTS 7. Hesperia sophia.
25. INSECTS 8.1.a. Hecatesia thyridion female.
25. INSECTS 8.1.b. Hecatesia thyridion male upper side.
25. INSECTS 8.1.c. Hecatesia thyridion under.
25. INSECTS 8.1.d. Hecatesia thyridion fenestra in wing of male.
25. INSECTS 8.2. Hecatesia fenestrata male.
26. INSECTS 9. Cossodes lyonetii.
27. INSECTS 10. Trichetra isabella male.
28. INSECTS 11. Trichetra isabella female.
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APPENDIX.
A. Genealogical List, to show the manner in which a native family
becomes divided.
B. Mount Fairfax, the Wizard Hills, and Champion Bay.
C. Contributions towards the Geographical distribution of the
Mammalia of Australia, with notes on some recently discovered
Species, by J.E. Gray, F.R.S., etc. etc., in a letter addressed to the
Author.
D. A List of the Birds of the Western coast, furnished by Mr. Gould.
E. A Catalogue of the Species of Reptiles and Amphibia hitherto
described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some New
Species from Western Australia, and some remarks on their
geographical distribution, by John Edward Gray, F.R.S., etc. etc., in a
note to the author.
F. Notes on some Insects from King George's Sound, collected and
presented to the British Museum, by Captain George Grey, by Adam
White, Esquire, British Museum, addressed in a letter to the author.
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JOURNALS
OF
EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY.

CHAPTER 1.

FROM GANTHEAUME BAY TO THE HUTT RIVER.
WRECK OF THE SECOND BOAT IN GANTHEAUME BAY.
A few moments were sufficient to enable us all to recollect ourselves:
two men endeavoured to keep the boat's stern on to the sea, whilst the
rest of us lightened her by carrying everything we could on shore,