THE REPTILES NAMED AND ARRANGED BY
J. E. GRAY, ESQ., AND THE FISH BY DR. RICHARDSON DESCRIPTION AND FIGURES
OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN INSECTS, BY ADAM WHITE, ESQ. M.E.S.
DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW INVERTEBRATED ANIMALS FROM AUSTRALIA, BY J. E.
GRAY, ESQ. F.R.S.
DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS, BY EDWARD
DOUBLEDAY, ESQ. F.R.S. etc.
LIST OF BIRDS KNOWN TO INHABIT SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, BY JOHN GOULD,
ESQ. F.R.S.
LIST OF PLATES - VOLUME I.
Tenberry, with Wife and Child, drawn by G. Hamilton
Departure of the Expedition drawn by G. Hamilton
Opossum-hunting at Gawler Plains
Native Graves
Wylie (J. Neil)
Plate I. - New Toads and Frogs
Plate II. - New Frogs and new Bat
Plate III. - New Insects
Plate IV. - New Cray-fish
Plate V. - New Shells
Plate VI. - New Butterflies
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
CHAPTER I.
THE CAMP PLUNDERED - NIGHT OF HORRORS - PROCEED ON TO THE WESTWARD - THE
BOYS FOLLOW US - THEY ARE LEFT BEHIND - FORCED MARCHES - DESERT
COUNTRY - BANKSIAS MET WITH - TRACES OF NATIVES - TERMINATION OF THE
CLIFFS - FIND WATER
CHAPTER II.
REFLECTIONS UPON SITUATION - WATCH FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE NATIVE
BOYS - THEIR PROBABLE FATE - PROCEED ON THE JOURNEY - FACILITY OF OBTAINING
WATER - KILL A HORSE FOR FOOD - SILVER-BARK TEA-TREE - INTENSE COLD - FIRST
HILLS SEEN - GOOD GRASS - APPETITE OF A NATIVE - INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF
UNWHOLESOME DIET - CHANGE IN THE CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY - GRANITE FORMS
THE LOW WATER LEVEL - TREE WASHED ON SHORE - INDISPOSITION
CHAPTER III.
HEAVY ROAD - A YOUNG KANGAROO SHOT - GRASSY COUNTRY - POINT MALCOLM - TRACES
OF ITS HAVING BEEN VISITED BY EUROPEANS - GRASS-TREES MET WITH - A KANGAROO
KILLED - CATCH FISH - GET ANOTHER KANGAROO - CRAB HUNTING - RENEW THE
JOURNEY - CASUARINAE MET WITH - CROSS THE LEVEL BANK - LOW COUNTRY BEHIND
IT - CAPE ARID - SALT WATER CREEK - XAMIA SEEN - CABBAGE TREE OF THE
SOUND - FRESH WATER LAKE - MORE SALT STREAMS - OPOSSUMS CAUGHT - FLAG REEDS
FOUND - FRESH WATER STREAMS - BOATS SEEN - MEET WITH A WHALER
CHAPTER IV.
GO ON BOARD THE MISSISSIPPI - WET WEATHER - VISIT LUCKY BAY - INTERVIEW WITH
NATIVES - WYLIE UNDERSTANDS THEIR LANGUAGE - GET THE HORSES SHOD - PREPARE
TO LEAVE THE VESSEL - KINDNESS AND LIBERALITY OF CAPTAIN ROSSITER - RENEW
JOURNEY TO THE WESTWARD - FOSSIL FORMATION STILL CONTINUES - SALT WATER
STREAMS AND LAKES - A LARGE SALT RIVER - CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER V.
LARGE WATERCOURSE - LAKE OF FRESH WATER - HEAVY RAINS - REACH MOUNT
BARREN - SALT LAKES AND STREAMS - BARREN SCRUBBY COUNTRY - RANGES BEHIND
KING GEORGE'S SOUND ARE SEEN - BRACKISH PONDS - PASS CAPE RICHE - A LARGE
SALT RIVER - CHAINS OF PONDS - GOOD LAND - HEAVILY TIMBERED COUNTRY - COLD
WEATHER - FRESH LAKE - THE CANDIUP RIVER - KING'S RIVER - EXCESSIVE
RAINS - ARRIVAL AT KING GEORGE'S SOUND, AND TERMINATION OF THE
EXPEDITION - RECEPTION OF WYLIE BY THE NATIVES
CHAPTER VI.
CONCLUDING REMARKS
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA.
