Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia eBook

Philip Parker King
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 366 pages of information about Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia eBook

Philip Parker King
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 366 pages of information about Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia.
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.

LIST OF PLATES.

VOLUME 1.

View in raffles bay, with CROKER’S island in the distance
From a sketch by P.P.  King.  Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London.

Woodcut 1:  Native of Dampier’s archipelago on his log.

Chart of the intertropical and west coasts of Australia
As surveyed in the years 1818 to 1822 by Phillip P. King, R.N.

View of south-west bayGoulburn island
Watering party attacked by natives. 
From a sketch by P.P.  King.  Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London.

View of inner harbour, port Essington
From Spear Point. 
From a sketch by P.P.  King.  Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London.

Interview with the natives of st. Asaph’s bay, Melville island
From a sketch by P.P.  King.  Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London.

View of the entrance of port Macquarie
From a sketch by P.P.  King.  Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London.

View up the river Hastings
At its junction with King’s River. 
From a sketch by P.P.  King.  Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London.

Woodcut 2:  Natives of Rockingham bay in their canoe.

Woodcut 3:  Natives of endeavour river in A canoe, fishing.

Woodcut 4:  Manner in which the natives of the east coast strike turtle.

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