Journals of Two Expeditions. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discoveryby. George Grey. JOURNALSOFTWO EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERYINNORTH- WEST AND WESTERNAUSTRALIA,DURING THE YEARS 1. AND 1. 83. 9,Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. DESCRIBINGMANY NEWLY DISCOVERED, IMPORTANT, ANDFERTILE DISTRICTS,WITHOBSERVATIONS ON THE MORAL AND PHYSICALCONDITION OF THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS, ETC. The spiritual teaching and the sources Billy Meier refers to. Semjase about the spirit, contact 10. Solo defends the body of unconscious Luke Skywalker. The next morning, Organa Solo departed to save Anakin, having been informed by the traitor Terpfen that he had. We do not log traffic or session data of any kind, period. We have worked very hard to craft the specialized technology we use to safeguard your privacy. Primul Tribunal Tiganesc va fi inaugurat la Sibiu, in februarie. Primul Tribunal Tiganesc, care ar urma sa functioneze dupa Staborul Tiganesc, va fi inaugurat in luna. JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY. FROM GANTHEAUME BAY TO THE HUTT RIVER. WRECK OF THE SECOND BOAT IN GANTHEAUME BAY. A few moments were sufficient to. Full text of 'The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two. A Strangely Isolated Place RarityETC. BY GEORGE GREY, ESQUIRE. GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA; Late Captain of the Eighty- third Regiment. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME 2. LONDON: T. BOONE, 2. NEW BOND STREET. 1. Native of Western Australia. Captain Grey, delt. Hanhart. Lithographic Printers. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2. CHAPTER 1. FROM GANTHEAUME BAY TO THE HUTT. RIVER. WRECK OF THE SECOND BOAT IN GANTHEAUME BAY. EXPLORE IN ITS VICINITY. ESTUARY AND SCENERY ABOUT IT. PROVISIONS DIVIDED. START FOR PERTH. GEOLOGICAL REMARKS. CROSS A DISTRICT OF RED SANDSTONE. PLAINS ABOUNDING IN THE WARRAN PLANT. SUPERIOR NATIVE PATHS AND WELLS. ESTUARY OF THE HUTT. DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY AND SCENERY. PROGRESS OPPOSED BY NATIVES. THE HUTT RIVER. FIRST HILLS OF THE SOUTHERN IRONSTONE FORMATION. CHAPTER 2. FROM THE HUTT RIVER TO WATER. PEAK. WILD TURKEYS SEEN. DIFFICULTY OF URGING THE PARTY FORWARD. THE BOWES RIVER. NATIVE HUTS. THE VICTORIA RANGE AND DISTRICT. THE BULLER RIVER. THE CHAPMAN RIVER. SEARCH FOR A MISSING MAN. SCENE WITH NATIVES. RETURN OF PARTY FROM SEARCH. THE MAN FOUND. THE GREENOUGH RIVER. CROSS THE HEADS OF TWO BAYS. MORE NATIVE HUTS. AUSTRALIND. THE IRWIN RIVER. SEARCH FOR WATER. WATER PEAK HILL. BENIGHTED IN RETURNING TO THE PARTY. CHAPTER 3. FROM WATER PEAK TO GAIRDNER'S. RANGE. RETURN TO THE PARTY. DESTRUCTION OF USELESS BAGGAGE. CRITICAL SITUATION. DIVIDE THE PARTY, AND PROCEED WITH THE STRONGEST TO PERTH FOR. ASSISTANCE. ARRANGEMENTS AT STARTING. THE ARROWSMITH RIVER. NATIVES. MOUNT HORNER. GAIRDNER'S RANGE. GENEROUS CONDUCT OF ONE OF THE MEN. CHAPTER 4. FROM GAIRDNER'S RANGE TO. PERTH. THE HILL RIVER. DISCOVERY OF A NATIVE PROVISION STORE. BARREN COUNTRY. SUFFERINGS FROM THIRST. SMITH'S RIVER. LONG AND UTTER DESTITUTION OF FOOD AND WATER. UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR WATER WITH KAIBER. HIS TREACHEROUS INTENTIONS. RETURN TO THE MEN. DISTRESSING SYMPTOMS FROM THIRST. LAST EFFORTS. FORTUNATE DISCOVERY OF A MOIST MUD- HOLE. PANGS OF HUNGER. RIVER OF RUNNING WATER. NATIVE SUPERSTITIONS. MISERY FROM RAIN AND COLD. PASS THE MOORE RIVER. JOYFUL INTERVIEW WITH A FRIENDLY TRIBE. NATIVE HOSPITALITY. SUPERSTITIONS OF MY MEN. ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION AT PERTH. CHAPTER 5. FROM WATER PEAK TO. PERTH.(MR. WALKER'S PARTY.)PARTY SENT IN SEARCH FROM PERTH. RETURN WITH CHARLES WOODS. SECOND PARTY IN SEARCH, UNDER MR. WALKER AT PERTH. NARRATIVE OF THEIR PROCEEDINGS FROM WATER PEAK. EXTREME DISTRESS FROM HUNGER AND THIRST. DEATH OF MR. SMITH. TIMELY DISCOVERY OF THE REST BY MR. ROE'S REPORT. CHAPTER 6. SUMMARY OF DISCOVERIES. RIVERS AND MOUNTAIN RANGES DISCOVERED. DISTRICTS OF BABBAGE AND VICTORIA. MR. MOORE'S VOYAGE TO HOUTMAN'S ABROLHOS AND PORT GREY. DISTRICT TO THE NORTH OF PERTH. CHAPTER 7. VOYAGE HOMEWARDS. NATURAL HISTORY. CHAPTER 8. THE OVERLANDERS. CLASS OF PERSONS. THEIR MODE OF LIFE. SUDDEN ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH. EFFECTS OF THEIR ENTERPRISES. MAGNITUDE OF THEIR OPERATIONS. RAPID INCREASE OF WEALTH IN NEW SETTLEMENTS. SPREAD OF STOCK STATIONS. COURSE OF THE OVERLANDERS THROUGH AUSTRALIA. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SOUTHERN AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA. GENERAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE SPREAD OF COMMERCE AND. EMIGRATION. THE ABORIGINES. CHAPTER 9. NATIVE LANGUAGE. RADICALLY THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE CONTINENT. CAUSES OF A CONTRARY OPINION. DIFFERENCE OF DIALECTS. EXAMPLES. CAUSES OF ERROR IN FORMER ENQUIRERS. CHAPTER 1. 0. THEIR TRADITIONAL. LAWS. ERRORS OF THEORETICAL WRITERS REGARDING THE SAVAGE STATE. COMPLEX LAWS OF SAVAGE LIFE. CONSIDERATIONS ON THEIR ORIGIN. CHAPTER 1. 1. LAWS OF RELATIONSHIP. MARRIAGE, AND INHERITANCE. RELATIONSHIP AND MARRIAGE. DIVISION OF FAMILIES. LAW OF MARRIAGE. COINCIDENT INSTITUTIONS AMONGST THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. ORIGIN OF FAMILY NAMES. SECOND COINCIDENCE. BETROTHMENTS. WIDOWS. OBLIGATIONS OF RELATIONSHIP. DIFFICULTY OF PURSUING THE ENQUIRY. PROPERTY VESTED IN INDIVIDUALS. UNIVERSALITY OF THIS CUSTOM. LINE OF INHERITANCE. CERTAIN LAWS REGARDING FOOD. CHAPTER 1. 2. CRIMES AND. PUNISHMENTS. SUPERSTITIOUS REVENGE OF NATURAL DEATH. MURDER. STEALING A WIFE. BREACH OF MARRIAGE LAWS. IMPLICATION OF A MURDERER'S FAMILY IN HIS CRIME. ORDEAL AND PUNISHMENT FOR OTHER TRANSGRESSIONS. CHAPTER 1. 3. SOCIAL CONDITION AND DOMESTIC. HABITS. POPULATION. TERM OF LIFE. CONDITION OF OLD AGE. AND OF YOUNG WOMEN. AVERAGE PROPORTION OF BIRTHS. IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. INFLUENCE OF POLYGAMY ON SOCIAL HABITS. MODE OF CONVERSATIONAL INTERCOURSE. CONSEQUENCES OF JEALOUSY. DANCES. CEREMONIES ON MEETING. CHAPTER 1. 4. FOOD AND HUNTING. ERRORS REGARDING SCARCITY OF THEIR FOOD. VARIETIES OF IT IN DIFFERENT LATITUDES. CAUSES OF OCCASIONAL WANT. LIST OF EDIBLE ARTICLES. IMPLEMENTS FOR DESTROYING ANIMALS. CONTENTS OF A NATIVE WOMAN'S BAG. DIFFERENT METHODS OF CATCHING KANGAROOS. COOKING A KANGAROO. METHODS OF TAKING AND COOKING FISH. FEASTING ON A STRANDED WHALE. KILLING WILD DOGS. TURTLE. BIRDS. OPOSSUMS. FROGS. SHELLFISH. GRUBS, AND WALLABIES. EDIBLE ROOTS AND SEEDS. MODE OF COOKING AND PREPARING THEM. FUNGI. GUMS. COMMON RIGHTS IN CERTAIN FOOD. CHAPTER 1. 5. SONGS AND POETRY. GENERAL PRACTICE OF SINGING. SONG OF AN OLD MAN IN WRATH. POETS. TRADITIONAL SONGS. NATIVE OPINION OF EUROPEAN SINGING. EXAMPLES OF SONGS FOR VARIOUS OCCASIONS. INFLUENCE OF SONGS IN ROUSING THE ANGRY PASSIONS OF THE MEN. CHAPTER 1. 6. FUNERAL CEREMONIES. SUPERSTITIONS, AND REMARKABLE CUSTOMS. DEATH AND BURIAL OF A NATIVE NEAR PERTH. BURIAL OF A NATIVE IN THE LESCHENAULT DISTRICT. CUSTOM OF LACERATING THEMSELVES, AND WATCHING AMONG THE. GRAVES. THE BOYL- YAS OR NATIVE SORCERERS. KAIBER'S ACCOUNT OF THEM. THEIR OPINION OF THE NIGHTMARE. VENERATION FOR CRYSTAL STONES. CIRCUMCISION. OTHER CUSTOMS. CHAPTER 1. 7. CHARACTERISTIC. ANECDOTES. MIAGO'S IMAGINARY SPEECH AS GOVERNOR. WARRUP'S ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY WITH MR. ROE. TRANSACTIONS WITH THE NATIVES IN A CASE OF POTATO STEALING. JUDICIAL CASE OF ASSAULT. CHAPTER 1. 8. INFLUENCE OF EUROPEANS ON THE. NATIVES. CAUSES WHY IT HAS NOT HITHERTO BEEN BENEFICIAL. WRETCHED STATE OF THE NATIVE POPULATION. PREJUDICES AGAINST THEM. EVIL EFFECTS FROM THEIR FEROCIOUS CUSTOMS REMAINING. UNCHECKED. PLAN FOR PROMOTING THEIR CIVILIZATION. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME 2. 1. Native of Western Australia. Captain Grey, delt. Hanhart. Lithographic Printers. Mount Victoria and Mount. Albert. 3. Form of basaltic dykes at Gregory's. Valley, St. Geological Section from Gregory's. Valley, St. Crossing Cattle over the Murray, near. Lake Alexandrina. Drawn on stone by George Barnard from a sketch by G. Hanhart, Lithographic Printers, 6. Charlotte Street. Rathbone Place. 9. Basaltic Rocks, Campaspi River, near Port. Phillip. Drawn on stone by George Barnard from a sketch by G. Hanhart, Lithographic Printers, 6. Charlotte Street. Rathbone Place. Published by T. Boone, London. REPTILES AND AMPHIBIA. Ronia catenulata (Gray). Aprasia pulchella (Gray). Delma fraseri (Gray). Lialis burtonii (Gray). Soridia lineata (Gray). Moloch horridus (Gray). Elaps gouldii (Gray). Elaps coronatus (Schlegel). Calamaria diadema (Schlegel). Lialis burtonii (Gray). Hydraspis australis (Gray). Chelodina oblonga (Gray). Hyla binoculata (Gray). Hyla adelaidensis (Gray). Breviceps gouldii (Gray). Helioporus albo punctatus (Gray). Brachysternus (E.). Biphyllocera. kirbyana. Biphyllocera fabriciana. Bardistus cibarius. Tympanophora. pellucida. Choerocydnus. foveolatus. Hecatesia thyridion. Hecatesia thyridion male upper side. Hecatesia thyridion under. Hecatesia thyridion fenestra in wing of. Hecatesia fenestrata male. Trichetra isabella. Trichetra isabella. APPENDIX. A. Genealogical List, to show the manner. B. Mount Fairfax, the Wizard Hills, and. Champion Bay. C. Contributions towards the Geographical. Mammalia of Australia, with notes on some. Species, by J. E. A List of the Birds of the Western. Mr. A Catalogue of the Species of Reptiles. Amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a. New Species from Western Australia, and some. John Edward Gray. F. R. S., etc. Notes on some Insects from King. George's Sound, collected and presented to the British Museum, by. Captain George Grey, by Adam White, Esquire, British Museum. JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY. CHAPTER 1. FROM GANTHEAUME BAY TO THE HUTT RIVER. WRECK OF THE SECOND BOAT IN GANTHEAUME BAY. A few moments were sufficient to enable us all to recollect. The custom had. always been for the other boat to lie off until I made the signal. Her crew had not seen our misfortunes owing to the. I made every possible sign to them not to beach, running as far. I could venture into the sea and shouting out to them, my. I saw them. bounding on to, what I thought, certain destruction. We of course. were all turned to render assistance. They fortunately kept. EXPLORE IN ITS VICINITY. COUNTRY ABOUT GANTHEAUME BAY. CROSS A DISTRICT OF RED SANDSTONE. Whilst all hands were employed in endeavouring to repair. I ascended a hill to reconnoitre our present position and. South- west. Australia in which I had met with the ancient red sandstone of. I. stood was a thick Casuarina scrub which sloped down into a deep. After I. had for some time looked round on this scene I returned to the. To this I had already made up my mind; and even. I doubt whether we could ever. ESTUARY AND LANDING- PLACE AND SCENERY ABOUT IT. No resource was now left to us but to endeavour to reach Perth. I looked at the sickly faces of some of the. I much doubted if they retained. I gave. orders for the necessary preparations to be made and then started. On reaching the. valley I have before mentioned we found a small stream, and. I had. yet seen: its shores abounded with springs and were bordered by. Casuarina, the number of wild swans on its placid bosom, and. We did not indeed find much good. I had yet seen in extra- tropical Australia. We followed the shores of the estuary to the northward and. The natives decamped as soon as they observed us.
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