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 48
... beautiful animal of this kind which I have ever seen . It was so delicate that , with the slightest touch , portions of it came off , hence the specimen we obtained is I fear useless . The body consisted only of a central canal , to ...
... beautiful animal of this kind which I have ever seen . It was so delicate that , with the slightest touch , portions of it came off , hence the specimen we obtained is I fear useless . The body consisted only of a central canal , to ...
Page 62
... beautiful and largest Sea - jellies ( acalepha ) had now disappeared , although the more minute ones were as numerous as ever . It therefore appears to me that we have in coming from the southward to this point passed through three ...
... beautiful and largest Sea - jellies ( acalepha ) had now disappeared , although the more minute ones were as numerous as ever . It therefore appears to me that we have in coming from the southward to this point passed through three ...
Page 165
... BEAUTIFUL BASALTIC COUNTRY . 165 we fell in with another rapid stream , running from the eastward , and were again involved in marshy land , which delayed us for some time ere we found a point where loaded ponies could pass . At length ...
... BEAUTIFUL BASALTIC COUNTRY . 165 we fell in with another rapid stream , running from the eastward , and were again involved in marshy land , which delayed us for some time ere we found a point where loaded ponies could pass . At length ...
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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