CHAPTER IV.

The Percy Isles:  anchorage at No. 2. 
Boat excursions. 
Remarks on the Percy Isles; with nautical observations. 
Coral reefs:  courses amongst them during eleven days search
for a passage through, to sea. 
Description of a reef. 
Anchorage at an eastern Cumberland Isle. 
The Lady Nelson sent back to Port Jackson. 
Continuation of coral reefs;
and courses amongst them during three other days. 
Cape Gloucester. 
An opening discovered, and the reefs quitted. 
General remarks on the Great Barrier;
with some instruction relative to the opening.

CHAPTER V.

Passage from the Barrier Reefs to Torres’ Strait. 
Reefs named Eastern Fields. 
Pandora’s Entrance to the Strait. 
Anchorage at Murray’s Islands. 
Communication with the inhabitants. 
Half-way Island. 
Notions on the formation of coral islands in general. 
Prince of Wales’s Islands, with remarks on them. 
Wallis’ Isles. 
Entrance into the Gulph of Carpentaria. 
Review of the passage through Torres’ Strait.

CHAPTER VI.

Examination of the coast on the east side of the Gulph of Carpentaria. 
Landing at Coen River. 
Head of the Gulph. 
Anchorage at Sweers’ Island. 
Interview with Indians at Horse-shoe Island. 
Investigator’s Road. 
The ship found to be in a state of decay. 
General remarks on the islands at the Head of the Gulph,
and their inhabitants. 
Astronomical and nautical observations.

CHAPTER VII.

Departure from Sweers’ Island. 
South side of C. Van Diemen examined. 
Anchorage at Bountiful Island:  turtle and sharks there. 
Land of C. Van Diemen proved to be an island. 
Examination of the main coast to Cape Vanderlin. 
That cape found to be one of a group of islands. 
Examination of the islands; their soil, etc. 
Monument of the natives. 
Traces of former visitors to these parts. 
Astronomical and nautical observations.

CHAPTER VIII.

Departure from Sir Edward Pellew’s Group. 
Coast from thence westward. 
Cape Maria found to be an island. 
Limmen’s Bight.  Coast northward to Cape Barrow:  landing on it. 
Circumnavigation of Groote Eylandt. 
Specimens of native art at Chasm Island. 
Anchorage in North-west Bay, Groote Eylandt;
with remarks and nautical observations. 
Blue-mud Bay.  Skirmish with the natives. 
Cape Shield. 
Mount Grindall. 
Coast to Caledon Bay. 
Occurrences in that bay, with remarks on the country and inhabitants. 
Astronomical and nautical observations.

CHAPTER IX.