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William Coote.
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In Flinders' own "Introduction" to the narrative of his second voyage, he only briefly and technically refers to this one. I have there, fore adopted the journal as most useful to my purpose.
Flinders sailed from Sydney on July 8, 1799, and, on the 11th, discovered, but cannot be said to have explored, Shoal Bay, inasmuch as he saw nothing of the Clarence River. On the evening of the 16th, he dropped anchor in Moreton, which he terms Glass House, Bay—"about two miles from a low sandy shore on the west side." The next day he landed with a Port Jackson native named "Bong-ree," or, as we should now spell it, "Bungaree," and endeavoured to enter into amicable communication with some of the natives, who were watching their procedure; but, unfortunately, the overture on both sides ended in a skirmish, in which one or two of the aborigines were wounded. From this circumstance Flinders gave the place the name of Point Skirmish, it being in fact the southernmost point of Bribie Island. Leaving that point, he moved up the opening between Bribie Island and the mainland, which he mistook for a river, and from the quantity of pumice stone found at high water, called it the Pumice Stone River. The sloop, which had sprung a leak on he 10th, was examined in the meantime, and a temporary stoppage having been effected, he again made sail on the 17th, anchoring off a point which, front the redness of its cliffs, he called Redcliff Point. He then pulled over to a "green headland about two miles to the westward," but found nothing noticeable save a native fishing net. Returning thence, he combined endeavouring to get further up the bay, and landed on an island thirty-four miles from Cape Moreton, in latitude 27° 33' 59" S. This he found to be two or three miles in circumference, the central part higher than the rest, and covered with a coat of fine vegetable mould of a reddish colour.
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