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PERFORMED UNDER THEIR LORDSHIPS' JOINT DIRECTIONS AND FLATTERING COUNTENANCE, IS, BY PERMISSION, INSCRIBED WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT, BY THEIR MOST GRATEFUL SERVANT, PHILLIP PARKER KING. VOLUME 1.

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INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER 1.

Intended mode of proceeding, and departure from Port Jackson.

Visit Twofold Bay.

Natives seen.

Passage through Bass Strait and along the South Coast to King George the Third's Sound.

Transactions there.

Voyage to the North-West Cape, and Survey of the Coast between the North-West Cape and Depuch Island, including the examinations of Exmouth Gulf, Curlew River, and Dampier's Archipelago.

Loss of Anchors, and Interview with the Natives.

Remarks upon Dampier's account of Rosemary Island, and of the Island upon which he landed.

CHAPTER 2.

Examination of Rowley's Shoals, and Passage to the North Coast.

Survey of Goulburn Islands, Mountnorris and Raffles Bays.

Meet a Malay Fleet, and communicate with one of the Proas.

Explore Port Essington.

Attacked by Natives in Knocker's Bay.

Anchor in Popham Bay.

Visit from the Malays.

Examination of Van Diemen's Gulf, including Sir George Hope's Islands and Alligator Rivers.

Survey of the Northern Shore of Melville Island, and Apsley Strait.

Interview with the Natives of Luxmore Head.

Procure wood at Port Hurd.

Natives.

Clarence Strait.

Leave the Coast, and arrival at Timor.

CHAPTER 3.

Transactions at Coepang.

Procure Water and Refreshments.

Description of the Town and Productions of the Island.

Account of the Trepang Fishery on the coast of New Holland.

Departure from Timor, and return to the North-west Coast.

Montebello Islands, and Barrow Island.

Leave the Coast.

Ship's company attacked with Dysentery.

Death of one of the crew.

Bass Strait, and arrival at Port Jackson.

Review of the Proceedings of the Voyage.

CHAPTER 4.

Visit to Van Diemen's Land, and examination of the entrance of Macquarie Harbour.

Anchor in Pine Cove and cut wood.

Description of the Trees growing there.

Return to the entrance, and water at Outer Bay.

Interview with the Natives, and Vocabulary of their language.

Arrive at Hobart Town, and return to Port Jackson.

CHAPTER 5.

Departure from Port Jackson, and commence a running survey of the East Coast.

Examinations of Port Macquarie and the River Hastings in company with the Lady Nelson, colonial brig, and assisted by Lieutenant Oxley, R.N., the Surveyor-general of the Colony.

Leave Port Macquarie.

The Lady Nelson returns with the Surveyor-general to Port Jackson.

Enter the Barrier-reefs at Break-sea Spit.

Discover Rodd's Bay.

Visit the Percy Islands.

Pass through Whitsunday Passage, and anchor in Cleveland Bay.

Wood and water there.

Continue the examination of the East Coast towards Endeavour River; anchoring progressively at Rockingham Bay, Fitzroy Island, Snapper Island, and Weary Bay.

Interview with the Natives at Rockingham Bay, and loss of a boat off Cape Tribulation.

Arrival off Endeavour River.

CHAPTER 6.

Transactions at Endeavour River, and intercourse with the Natives.

Examine the River.

Geognostical Remarks.

Leave Endeavour River, and resume the examination of the coast.

Anchor among Howick's Group, and under Flinders' Group.

Explore Princess Charlotte's Bay, and the Islands and Reefs as far as Cape York, anchoring in the way on various parts of the coast.

The cutter nearly wrecked at Escape River.

Loss of anchor under Turtle Island.

Pass round Cape York and through Torres Strait, by the Investigator's route.

CHAPTER 7.

Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and resume the survey of the North Coast at Wessel's Islands.

Castlereagh Bay.

Crocodile Islands.

Discovery and examination of Liverpool River.

Natives.

Arrive at Goulburn Island.

Complete wood and water.

Attacked by the natives from the cliffs.

Leave Goulburn Island, and pass round Cape Van Diemen.

Resume the survey of the coast at Vernon's Islands in Clarence Strait.

Paterson Bay.

Peron Island.

Anson Bay.

Mr. Roe examines Port Keats.

Prevented from examining a deep opening round Point Pearce.

Discovery of Cambridge Gulf.

Lacrosse Island.

Natives.

Examination of the Gulf.

Death of one of the crew.

Leave Cambridge Gulf.

Trace the coast to Cape Londonderry.

CHAPTER 8.

Examination of the coast between Cape Londonderry and Cape Voltaire, containing the surveys of Sir Graham Moore's Islands, Eclipse Islands, Vansittart Bay, Admiralty Gulf, and Port Warrender.

Encounter with the natives of Vansittart Bay.

Leave the coast at Cassini Island for Coepang.

Obliged to bear up for Savu.

Anchor at Zeeba Bay, and interview with the rajah.

Some account of the inhabitants.

Disappointed in not finding water.

Leave Zeeba Bay, and beat back against the monsoon to Coepang.

Complete wood and water, and procure refreshments.

Return to Port Jackson.

Pass the latitude assigned to the Tryal Rocks.

Arrival in Sydney Cove.

CHAPTER 9.

Equipment for the third voyage.

Leave Port Jackson.

Loss of bowsprit, and return.

Observations upon the present state of the colony, as regarding the effect of floods upon the River Hawkesbury.

Re-equipment and final departure.

Visit Port Bowen.

Cutter thrown upon a sandbank.

Interview with the natives, and description of the country about Cape Clinton.

Leave Port Bowen.

Pass through the Northumberland, and round the Cumberland Islands.

Anchor at Endeavour River.

Summary of observations taken there.

Visit from the natives.

Vocabulary of their language.

Observations thereon in comparing it with Captain Cook's account.

Mr. Cunningham visits Mount Cook.

Leave Endeavour River, and visit Lizard Island.

Cape Flinders and Pelican Island.

Entangled in the reefs.

Haggerston's Island, Sunday Island, and Cairncross Island.

Cutter springs a leak.

Pass round Cape York.

Endeavour Strait.

Anchor under Booby Island.

Remarks upon the Inner and Outer routes through Torres Strait.

CHAPTER 10.

Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and anchor at Goulburn's South Island.

Affair with the natives.

Resume the survey of the coast at Cassini Island.

Survey of Montagu Sound, York Sound, and Prince Frederic's Harbour.

Hunter's and Roe's Rivers, Port Nelson, Coronation Islands.

Transactions at Careening Bay.

Repair the cutter's bottom.

General geognostical and botanical observations.

Natives' huts.

Brunswick Bay.

Prince Regent's River.

Leave the coast in a leaky state.

Tryal Rocks, Cloates Island.

Pass round the west and south coasts.

Bass Strait.

Escape from shipwreck.

Botany Bay.

Arrival at Port Jackson.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, Vol. 1

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