Its Length Is A Little Short Of
Forty Miles, And Its Shape A Rude Triangle, The Apex Of Which Is
At the
south, and the north side forming the southern portion of Rockingham Bay.
Now this north side is by
No means straight, but is curved out into two or
three bays of considerable extent, and in one of them stand two islands
named Gould and Garden Islands. The latter of these was our favourite
resort for picnics, for the dense foliage afforded good shade, and, when
the tide was low, we were enabled to gather most delicious oysters from
some detached rocks. Gould Island is considerably larger; but, rising in a
pyramid from the sea, and being covered with loose boulders, it was most
tedious climbing. From the township we could, with our glasses, see canoes
constantly passing and repassing between these two islands; and as the
'Daylight' had a particularly heavy cargo this trip, and would not be clear
for the next two days, we made up our minds to search the islands, and
drive the blacks on to Hinchinbrook, so that one of our parties must
stumble across them when we swept it. This may seem to the reader
unnecessary trouble, but most of our party were conversant with the habits
of the blacks and their limited method of reasoning; and we judged it
probable that the Herbert River gins would have at once acquainted the
Hinchinbrook blacks with our unceremonious visit, and warned them that we
should probably soon look them up also.
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