Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important, and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c., &c. London, T. and W. Boone, 1841, Volume 1Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 - Aboriginal Australians |
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Page 336
... ISLAND . The wind , however , continued freshening rapidly , and during the evening and night we had heavy squalls ... Bernier Island ; my dislike to which was much increased from the fact of Mr. Smith and myself , who slept side by side ...
... ISLAND . The wind , however , continued freshening rapidly , and during the evening and night we had heavy squalls ... Bernier Island ; my dislike to which was much increased from the fact of Mr. Smith and myself , who slept side by side ...
Page 337
... ISLAND . 337 although we heard that it had been collected by suction from small holes in the rock , and then ... Bernier Island , the only difference being that the land here was rather higher than on the former . From the top of the ...
... ISLAND . 337 although we heard that it had been collected by suction from small holes in the rock , and then ... Bernier Island , the only difference being that the land here was rather higher than on the former . From the top of the ...
Page 389
... Bernier Island from the point of the main where we were was about ten miles further than it is from Dover to Calais . Our boats were in very bad repair , and the landing on the other side was by no means good , I therefore certainly ...
... Bernier Island from the point of the main where we were was about ten miles further than it is from Dover to Calais . Our boats were in very bad repair , and the landing on the other side was by no means good , I therefore certainly ...
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acalepha amongst animal appeared Australia banks basaltic beach beak to tip beautiful Bernier Island birds BLOWING STONE boat Breadth breakfast Cape Captain caught cave cliffs coast Coles colour Diphya direction distance encampment feet fertile formed Glenelg Glenelg River ground Guanches halted Hanover Bay head hills horses island Kaiber kangaroo land Length from root Length from tip Length of foot lofty Lord Glenelg Lushington Lynher mangroves March miles MOLLUSCA morning mouth moved natives nearly night observed party passed Perth picul ponies Prince Regent's River rain ravine resembling rocks rocky root to tip route Ruston sandstone range sandy Savignon schooner seen Sharks Sharks Bay shells shore side soon southward spear species spot Steep Point stream Swan River Teneriffe tentacula tion tip of beak tip of tail tip of wing trees valley vessel Walker Western Australia whilst wind wooded