CHAPTER VIII BROWN AND CHARLEY QUARREL - NIGHT WATCH - ROUTINE OF OUR DAILY
LIFE, AND HABITS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY - MOUNT
LANG - STREAMS OF LAVA - A HORSE BREAKS HIS LEG, IS KILLED AND
EATEN - NATIVE TRIBE - MR. ROPER'S ACCIDENT - WHITSUNDAY - BIG
ANT HILL CREEK - DEPRIVED OF WATER FOR FIFTY HOURS - FRIENDLY
NATIVES - SEPARATION CREEK - THE LYND - PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
OF A SOJOURN IN THE WILDERNESS - NATIVE CAMP - SALT EXHAUSTED.
CHAPTER IX THE STARRY HEAVENS - SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE - SAWFISH -
TWO-STORIED GUNYAS OF THE NATIVES - THE MITCHELL - MURPHY'S
PONY POISONED - GREEN TREE-ANT - NEW BEVERAGE - CROCODILE -
AUDACITY OF KITES - NATIVES NOT FRIENDLY - THE CAMP ATTACKED
AT NIGHT BY THEM - MESSRS. ROPER AND CALVERT WOUNDED,
AND MR. GILBERT KILLED.
CHAPTER X INDICATIONS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE SEA - NATIVES MUCH
MORE NUMEROUS - THE SEA; THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA - THE
STAATEN - A NATIVE INTRUDES INTO THE CAMP - THE VAN DIEMEN - THE
GILBERT - SINGULAR NATIVE HUTS - CARON RIVER - FRIENDLY
NATIVES - THE YAPPAR - MR. CALVERT RECOVERED - MODE OF
ENCAMPMENT - SWARMS OF FLIES - ABUNDANCE OF SALT - NATIVES
FRIENDLY, AND MORE INTELLIGENT.
CHAPTER XI SYSTEMATIC GRASS BURNINGS OF THE NATIVES - NATIVE
CARVING - AUDACITY OF THE NATIVES OVERAWED - THE ALBERT, OR
MAET SUYKER - NATIVE MODE OF MAKING SURE OF A DEAD EMU -
BULLOCK BOGGED; OBLIGED TO KILL IT - NATIVE DEVICE FOR TAKING
EMUS - BEAMES'S BROOK - THE NICHOLSON - RECONNOITRE BY
NIGHT - SMITH'S CREEK - THE MARLOW.
CHAPTER XII HEAPS OF OYSTER-SHELLS - FALSE ALARM OF A NATIVE IN THE
CAMP - TURNER'S CREEK - WENTWORTH'S CREEK - JOURNALS LOST; FOUND
AGAIN - THE VAN ALPHEN - IMPORTANCE OF TEA - CHOICE OF BULLOCKS
FOR AN EXPEDITION - CHOICE OF A DOG - THE CALVERT - THE ABEL
TASMAN - GLUCKING BIRD AGAIN - DISCOVER A MODE OF USING THE
FRUIT OF THE PANDANUS - SEVEN EMU RIVER - CROCODILE - THE
ROBINSON - SHOAL OF PORPOISES - NATIVE METHOD OF PREPARING THE
FRUIT OF THE PANDANUS AND CYCAS FOR FOOD - MR. ROPER
CONVALESCENT - WEAR AND TEAR OF CLOTHES - SUCCEED IN DRESSING
THE SEEDS OF STERCULIA - THE MACARTHUR - FRIENDLY PARLEY WITH
CIRCUMCISED NATIVES - STORE OF TEA EXHAUSTED - MEDICAL PROPERTY
OF THE GREVILLEA DISCOVERED.
CHAPTER XIII CAPE MARIA - OBLIGED TO LEAVE A PORTION OF OUR COLLECTION OF
NATURAL HISTORY - LIMMEN BIGHT RIVER - HABITS OF WATER
BIRDS - NATIVE FISH TRAP - THE FOUR ARCHERS - THE WICKHAM - THE
DOG DIES - IMMENSE NUMBER OF DUCKS AND GEESE - THE ROPER - THREE
HORSES DROWNED - OBLIGED TO LEAVE A PORTION OF MY BOTANICAL
COLLECTION - MORE INTERCOURSE WITH FRIENLDY NATIVES,
CIRCUMCISED - HODGSON'S CREEK - THE WILTON - ANOTHER HORSE
DROWNED - ANXIETY ABOUT OUR CATTLE - AN ATTACK ON THE CAMP
FRUSTRATED - BOILS - BASALT AGAIN - INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF THE
SEEDS OF AN ACACIA.
CHAPTER XIV INTERVIEW WITH A NATIVE - DISTRESSING HEAT - A HORSE STAKED: IT
DIES - MYRIADS OF FLYING-FOXES - MAGNIFICENT VALLEY - FRIENDLY
NATIVES - SHOT EXHAUSTED - INSTINCT OF BULLOCKS - SOUTH
ALLIGATOR RIVER - FRIENDLY NATIVES WITH AN ENGLISH
HANDKERCHIEF, AND ACQUAINTED WITH FIRE-ARMS - THEIR
LANGUAGE - MIRAGE.
