Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. eBook

John Lort Stokes
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 467 pages of information about Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1..

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. eBook

John Lort Stokes
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 467 pages of information about Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1..
Pottery. 
Timber. 
Boat-building. 
Cultivation of the eastern Ki. 
No anchorage off it. 
Visit Ki Doulan. 
Antique Appearance of. 
Luxuriant Vegetation. 
Employment of Natives. 
Defences of the place. 
Carvings on gateway. 
Civility of Chief. 
His Dress. 
Population of the Ki Group. 
Their Religion. 
Trade. 
Place of Interment. 
Agility of Australian Native. 
Supplies. 
Anchorage off Ki Doulan. 
Island of Vordate. 
Visit from Chief. 
Excitement of Natives. 
Their Arms and Ornaments. 
Carved Horns on Houses. 
Alarm of the Oran Kaya. 
Punishment of the Natives of Laarat by the Dutch. 
Revisit Oliliet. 
Discover that Mr. Watson had rescued the European Boy. 
Return to Port Essington. 
Mr. Watson’s Proceedings at Timor Laut.

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APPENDIX.

List of Birds, collected by the Officers of H.M.S.  Beagle.

Descriptions of Six Fish.  By Sir John Richardson.  M.D., F.R.S. etc.

Descriptions of some New Australian Reptiles.  By J.E.  Gray, Esquire F.R.S. etc.

Descriptions of new or unfigured Species of Coleoptera from Australia.  By
Adam White, Esquire M.E.S.

Descriptions of some new or imperfectly characterized Lepidoptera from
Australia.  By E. Doubleday, Esquire F.L.S.

LIST OF CHARTS.

Volume 1.

General chart of Australia.

Bass strait.

Arafura sea.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Volume 1.

Natives of western Australia
I.R.  Fitzmaurice del.

South branch of the Albert river
G. Gore del.  London, Published by T. & W. Boone, 1846.

Native habitation.

Singular tail of kangaroo
Natural size.

Rocks on Roe’s group.

Native raft.

KILEYS of king sound and Swan river.
1/24th of the usual size.

Substantial native hut.

Spears of king sound and Swan river.

Monument to la Perouse.

Circular head
South-South-East Six Miles.

Reid’s rocks, king island and the black pyramid.

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