SCOTT IN THE HERO - MR. SCOTT AGAIN SAILS FOR
ADELAIDE - COMMENCE JOURNEY TO THE WESTWARD - OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL AT THE
SAND-HILLS - LARGE FLIES - TAKE ON THE SHEEP - LEAVE THE OVERSEER WITH THE
HORSES - REACH YEER-KUMBAN-KAUWE - JOINED BY THE OVERSEER - TORMENTING FLIES
AGAIN - MOVE ON WITH THE SHEEP - LEAVE OVERSEER TO FOLLOW WITH THE
HORSES - CHARACTER OF COUNTRY ALONG THE BIGHT - SCENERY OF THE
CLIFFS - LEAVE THE SHEEP - ANXIETY ABOUT WATER - REACH THE TERMINATION OF
THE CLIFFS - FIND WATER
CHAPTER XVI.
GO BACK TO MEET THE OVERSEER - PARTY ARRIVE AT THE WATER - LONG
ENCAMPMENT - GEOLOGICAL FORMATION OF THE CLIFFS - MOVE ON AGAIN - DIG FOR
WATER - TRACES OF NATIVES - SEND BACK FOR WATER - PARROTS SEEN - COOL WINDS
FROM NORTH-EAST - OVERSEER RETURNS - CONTINUE THE JOURNEY - ABANDON
BAGGAGE - DENSE SCRUBS - DRIVEN TO THE BEACH - MEET NATIVES - MODE OF
PROCURING WATER FROM ROOTS
CHAPTER XVII.
HORSES BEGIN TO KNOCK UP - COMPELLED TO FOLLOW ROUND THE BEACH - TIMOR PONY
UNABLE TO PROCEED - GLOOMY PROSPECTS - OVERSEER BEGINS TO DESPOND - TWO MORE
HORSES LEFT BEHIND - FRAGMENTS OF WRECKS - WATER ALL CONSUMED - COLLECT
DEW - CHANGE IN CHARACTER OF COUNTRY - DIG A WELL - PROCURE WATER - NATIVE
AND FAMILY VISIT US - OVERSEER GOES BACK FOR BAGGAGE - DISASTROUS
TERMINATION OF HIS JOURNEY - SITUATION AND PROSPECTS OF THE PARTY
CHAPTER XVIII.
GO BACK WITH A NATIVE - SPEAR STING-RAYS - RECOVER THE BAGGAGE - COLD
WEATHER - OVERSEER RECONNOITRES THE CLIFFS - UNFAVOURABLE
REPORT - DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AS TO BEST PLANS FOR THE FUTURE - KILL A
HORSE FOR FOOD - INJURIOUS EFFECTS FROM MEAT DIET - NATIVE BOYS BECOME
DISAFFECTED - THEY STEAL PROVISIONS - NATIVE BOYS DESERT THE PARTY - THEY
RETURN ALMOST STARVED - PARTY PROCEED ONWARDS TO THE WESTWARD - CLIFFS OF
THE BIGHT - COUNTRY BEHIND THEM - THREATENING WEATHER - MURDER OF THE
OVERSEER
APPENDIX.
DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS, BY J. E. GRAY, ESQ. F.R.S.
CATALOGUE OF REPTILES AND FISH, FOUND AT KING GEORGE'S SOUND, BY DEPUTY
ASSISTANT COMMISSARY - GENERAL NEILL. 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.
