Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 365 pages of information about Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 365 pages of information about Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1.

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.

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