Narrative of a Survey
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER 2. Examination of Rowley's Shoals, and
Passage to the North Coast. Survey of Goulburn Islands, Mountnorris and
Raffles Bays. Meet a Malay Fleet, and communicate with one of the
Proas. Explore Port Essington. Attacked by Natives in Knocker's Bay.
Anchor in Popham Bay. Visit from the Malays. Examination of Van
Diemen's Gulf, including Sir George Hope's Islands and Alligator
Rivers. Survey of the Northern Shore of Melville Island, and Apsley
Strait. Interview with the Natives of Luxmore Head. Procure wood at
Port Hurd. Natives. Clarence Strait. Leave the Coast, and arrival at
Timor.
CHAPTER 3. Transactions at Coepang. Procure Water
and Refreshments. Description of the Town and Productions of the
Island. Account of the Trepang Fishery on the coast of New Holland.
Departure from Timor, and return to the North-west Coast. Montebello
Islands, and Barrow Island. Leave the Coast. Ship's company attacked
with Dysentery. Death of one of the crew. Bass Strait, and arrival at
Port Jackson. Review of the Proceedings of the Voyage.
CHAPTER 4. Visit to Van Diemen's Land, and
examination of the entrance of Macquarie Harbour. Anchor in Pine Cove
and cut wood. Description of the Trees growing there. Return to the
entrance, and water at Outer Bay. Interview with the Natives, and
Vocabulary of their language. Arrive at Hobart Town, and return to Port
Jackson.
CHAPTER 5. Departure from Port Jackson, and
commence a running survey of the East Coast. Examinations of Port
Macquarie and the River Hastings in company with the Lady Nelson,
colonial brig, and assisted by Lieutenant Oxley, R.N., the
Surveyor-general of the Colony. Leave Port Macquarie. The Lady Nelson
returns with the Surveyor-general to Port Jackson. Enter the
Barrier-reefs at Break-sea Spit. Discover Rodd's Bay. Visit the Percy
Islands. Pass through Whitsunday Passage, and anchor in Cleveland Bay.
Wood and water there. Continue the examination of the East Coast
towards Endeavour River; anchoring progressively at Rockingham Bay,
Fitzroy Island, Snapper Island, and Weary Bay. Interview with the
Natives at Rockingham Bay, and loss of a boat off Cape Tribulation.
Arrival off Endeavour River.
CHAPTER 6. Transactions at Endeavour River, and
intercourse with the Natives. Examine the River. Geognostical Remarks.
Leave Endeavour River, and resume the examination of the coast. Anchor
among Howick's Group, and under Flinders' Group. Explore Princess
Charlotte's Bay, and the Islands and Reefs as far as Cape York,
anchoring in the way on various parts of the coast. The cutter nearly
wrecked at Escape River. Loss of anchor under Turtle Island. Pass round
Cape York and through Torres Strait, by the Investigator's route.
CHAPTER 7. Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and
resume the survey of the North Coast at Wessel's Islands. Castlereagh
Bay. Crocodile Islands. Discovery and examination of Liverpool River.
Natives. Arrive at Goulburn Island. Complete wood and water. Attacked
by the natives from the cliffs. Leave Goulburn Island, and pass round
Cape Van Diemen. Resume the survey of the coast at Vernon's Islands in
Clarence Strait. Paterson Bay. Peron Island. Anson Bay. Mr. Roe
examines Port Keats. Prevented from examining a deep opening round
Point Pearce. Discovery of Cambridge Gulf. Lacrosse Island. Natives.
Examination of the Gulf. Death of one of the crew. Leave Cambridge
Gulf. Trace the coast to Cape Londonderry.
CHAPTER 8. Examination of the coast between Cape
Londonderry and Cape Voltaire, containing the surveys of Sir Graham
Moore's Islands, Eclipse Islands, Vansittart Bay, Admiralty Gulf, and
Port Warrender. Encounter with the natives of Vansittart Bay. Leave the
coast at Cassini Island for Coepang. Obliged to bear up for Savu.
Anchor at Zeeba Bay, and interview with the rajah. Some account of the
inhabitants. Disappointed in not finding water. Leave Zeeba Bay, and
beat back against the monsoon to Coepang. Complete wood and water, and
procure refreshments. Return to Port Jackson. Pass the latitude
assigned to the Tryal Rocks. Arrival in Sydney Cove.
CHAPTER 9. 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 sandbank. 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 River. Summary of observations taken there. Visit from the
natives. Vocabulary of their language. Observations thereon in
comparing 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.
CHAPTER 10. Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and
anchor at Goulburn's South Island. Affair with the natives. Resume the
survey of the coast at Cassini Island. Survey of Montagu Sound, York
Sound, and Prince Frederic's Harbour. Hunter's and Roe's Rivers, Port
Nelson, Coronation Islands. Transactions at Careening Bay. Repair the
cutter's bottom. General geognostical and botanical observations.
Natives' huts. Brunswick Bay. Prince Regent's River. Leave the coast in
a leaky state. Tryal Rocks, Cloates Island. Pass round the west and
south coasts. Bass Strait. Escape from shipwreck. Botany Bay. Arrival
at Port Jackson.
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