Volume I Part 3 (2/2)

Heavy weather and wet decks

Island of Aitude

St Paul's

Water

Westerly variation

Rottnest Island

Gage's Road

Swan River Settlement

Fremantle

An inland lake

Plans for the future

Illness of Captain Wickham

Tidal Phenomena

Perth

Approach to it

Narrow escape of the first settlers

The Darling Range

Abundant Harvest

Singular flight of strange birds

Curious Cliff near Swan River

Bald Head

Mr Darwin's Theory

The Natives

Miago

Anecdotes of Natives

Their Superstitions

Barbarous traditions, their uses and their lessons

We had, upon the whole, a favourable passage across to the Cape; but on the 17th of September, when distant froale from the north As this was the first heavy weather we had experienced since our departure froe scene would have on our passengers Wrapt inwith ade waves as they rolled past, occasionally i our little vessel in their white crests--and listening, with emotions not wholly devoid of fear, to the wild screams of the seabirds as they ski masses The landsrandeur of a storm at sea; nor can the hardiest seaman look with unconcern on such an exhibition of the majesty of Him, whose will the winds and waves obey Not more poetically beautiful than literally true are the words of the Psalmist, so appropriately introduced into the Foro down to the sea in shi+ps, and occupy their business in great waters: these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep: for at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof” My own experience has over and over again satisfied ious sentiht and mercy of Heaven--often rests on the heart of the most reckless seaely influenced by its operations!

ANCHOR AT SIMON'S BAY

We sighted land on the evening of the 20th of Septe, and in the afternoon anchored in Si of Admiral Sir Patrick Ca our subsequent stay received every attention which kindness and courtesy could suggest, frolad to ascertain that our chronoitude of Simon's Bay, within a few seconds of our hoe Mr Maclear, of the Royal Observatory, and Captain Wauchope, of the flagshi+p, had been itude between Si lights upon the summit of a ave a greater difference, by a half second, between the twochronometers to and fro The results stand as follow: