Apparent increase of Sydney. 
Cause of Decline. 
Expedition sails for Port Essington. 
Illawarra. 
Botany Bay. 
La Perouse’s Monument. 
Aborigines. 
Meet Captain King. 
Appearance of Land near Sydney.

CHAPTER 1.9.  BASS STRAIT.

Leave Sydney. 
Enter Bass Strait. 
Island at Eastern entrance. 
Wilson’s Promontory. 
Cape Shanck. 
Enter Port Phillip. 
Tide-race. 
Commence Surveying Operations. 
First Settlement. 
Escaped Convict. 
His residence with the Natives. 
Sail for King Island. 
Examine Coast to Cape Otway. 
King Island. 
Meet Sealers on New Year Islands. 
Franklin Road. 
Solitary Residence of Captain Smith. 
Soil. 
Advantageous position for a Penal Settlement. 
Leafless appearance of Trees. 
Examine West Coast. 
Fitzmaurice Bay. 
Stokes’ Point. 
Seal Bay. 
Geological Formation. 
Examine Coast to Sea Elephant Rock. 
Brig Rock. 
Cross the Strait to Hunter Island. 
Strong Tide near Reid’s Rocks. 
Three Hummock Island. 
Rats. 
The Black Pyramid. 
Point Woolnorth. 
Raised Beach. 
Coast to Circular Head. 
Headquarters of the Agricultural Company. 
Capture of a Native. 
Mouth of the Tamar River. 
Return to Port Phillip. 
West Channel. 
Yarra-yarra River. 
Melbourne. 
Custom of Natives. 
Manna. 
Visit Geelong. 
Station Peak. 
Aboriginal Names. 
South Channel. 
Examine Western Port. 
Adventure with a Snake. 
Black Swans. 
Cape Patterson. 
Deep Soundings. 
Revisit King and Hunter Islands. 
Fire. 
Circular Head. 
Gales of Wind. 
Reid’s Rocks. 
Sea Elephant Rock. 
Wild Dogs. 
Navarin and Harbinger Reefs. 
Arrive at Port Phillip. 
Sail for Sydney. 
Pigeon House. 
Drought. 
Mr. Usborne leaves.

CHAPTER 1.10.  SYDNEY TO PORT ESSINGTON.

Leave Sydney. 
Gale and Current. 
Port Stephens. 
Tahlee. 
River Karuah. 
Stroud. 
Wild Cattle. 
Incivility of a Settler. 
River Allyn. 
Mr. Boydell. 
Cultivation of Tobacco. 
A clearing Lease. 
William River. 
Crossing the Karuah at Night. 
Sail from Port Stephens. 
Breaksea Spit. 
Discover a Bank. 
Cape Capricorn. 
Northumberland Isles. 
Sandalwood. 
Cape Upstart. 
Discover a River. 
Raised Beach. 
Section of Barrier Reef. 
Natives. 
Plants and Animals. 
Magnetical Island. 
Halifax Bay. 
Height of Cordillera. 
Fitzroy Island. 
Hope Island. 
Verifying Captain King’s Original Chart. 
Cape Bedford. 
New Geological Feature. 
Lizard Island. 
Captain Cook. 
Barrier and Reefs within. 
Howick Group. 
Noble Island. 
Cape Melville. 
Reef near Cape Flinders.