CHAPTER 16. TO KOLAINA AND BACK TO THE GASCOYNE.
Examine the coast to the
north of the Gascoyne.
Lyell’s range.
Boat swamped in beaching.
State of provisions.
Search for water.
Remarkable plains.
Indisposition of several of the
party.
Examination of the shore to
the northward, and of the
country to the
south-east.
Affray with the natives.
Continued foul weather.
Put to sea.
Compelled again to beach the
boats.
Adjacent country explored.
Launch the boats, and enter
northern mouth of the Gascoyne.
Character of the country.
CHAPTER 17. FROM THE GASCOYNE TO GANTHEAUME BAY.
Sail from the Gascoyne.
A gale of wind.
Reach Bernier island.
Destruction of the depot of
provisions.
Repair damages, and return to
the main.
Anchor to the north of the
Gascoyne.
Examine the coast to the
southward.
Its character.
Steer from the main.
Another gale.
Land on Perron’s peninsula.
Description of it.
Round Cape Lesuer.
Beach the boats.
Sail again for Dirk Hartog’s
island.
Land there.
Pass over to the main.
Description of the land.
Round steep point, and put
back again.
Passage to Gantheaume bay.
The intervening coast.
Boat totally wrecked in beaching
in Gantheaume bay.
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ERRATUM.
Volume 1 Table: for Castles, read Chateaux.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Volume 1.
1. Map of the District of the River Glenelg, on the North-Western Coast of Australia, from the surveys of George Grey, Esquire, by John Arrowsmith.