Volume II Part 1 (1/2)

Discoveries in Australia

by John Lort Stokes

VOLUME 2

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

CHAPTER 21

Leave Port Essington

Clarence Strait

Hope Inlet

Shoal Bay

Land for Observations

Explore a new Opening

Talc Head

Port Darwin

Continue Exploration

Mosquitoes and Sandflies

Nature of the Country

Its parched appearance

Large ant's nest

Return to Shoal Bay

Visit from the Natives

Remarks

Their teeth perfect

Rite of Circurations of the Natives

Theory of an Inland Sea

Central Desert

Salt water drunk by Natives

Modes of procuring water

Survey the harbour

Natives on a raft

Anecdote

Bynoe Harbour

Well