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XII of Macmillan's Magazine, May to October, 1865. Opening the latter book at random, I fell upon a sketch of Eyre's expedition along the shores of the Great Australian Bight. In another place was a contribution entitled 'A Gallery of American Presidents. The next item of interest was an account of the Massacre of Cawnpore.
He had read up for these facts and figures, under the impression that they would interest the solid portion of his audience. "Fire away!" "Start your train!" Tiffles therefore whistled once, and the panorama commenced moving slowly and steadily. The idiot, the rollers, and the lights, all worked well. From the Bight of Benin, the voyaging spectators took an excursion up the river.
The second was entitled "Carte generale de la Terre Napoleon." In this case the title was held by feathered Mercury in graceful flight, displaying the motto "Orbis Australis dulces exuviae." Upon both charts, the whole of southern Australia, from Wilson's Promontory to Cape Adieu in the Bight, was styled Terre Napoleon.
It is safe to say that Lafarge was a less sincere if not a less blameless customs officer from this time forth. For humour on a woman's lips is a potent thing, as any man knows that has kissed it off in laughter. As we said, Tarboe lay rocking in a bight at Anticosti, with an empty hold and a scanty larder. Still, he was in no ill-humour, for he smoked much and talked more than common.
It might seem that similar aid could have been afforded to Warburton and others who attempted to trace the south-coast line. But for hundreds of miles along the shores of the Bight no vessel could reach the shore or lie safely at anchor. Long ranges of perpendicular cliffs, from 300 to 400 feet high, presented a barrier effectually forbidding approach by sea.
In the four engagements of importance which had been fought by the end of January, 1915, the British had been the victors in three the battles of the Bight of Helgoland, the Falkland Islands, and the third German raid of January 24, 1915 the Germans had been victors in one the fight off Coronel.
There is a broad bay called Trinity Bay in the heart of the Goodwins, out of which leads due north-east the chief swatch or passage through the Sands. It is four or five fathoms deep at low water, and from about three-quarters to a quarter of a mile wide, and it is called the Ramsgate Man's Bight.
Settlement formed at Somerset, Cape York, by the Queensland Government Expedition of the Brothers Jardine Start from Carpentaria Downs Station Disaster by fire Reduced resources Arrive at the coast of the Gulf Hostility of the blacks Continual attacks Horses mad through drinking salt water Poison country An unfortunate camp Still followed by the natives Rain and bog Dense scrub Efforts of the two brothers to reach Somerset Final Success Lull in exploration Private parties Settlement at Escape Cliffs by South Australia J. M'Kinlay sent up Narrow escape from floods Removal of the settlement to Port Darwin M'Intyre's expedition in search of Leichhardt His death Hunt in Western Australia False reports about traces of Leichhardt Forrest's first expedition Sent to investigate the report of the murder of white men in the interior Convinced of its want of truth Unpromising country Second expedition to Eucla The cliffs of the Great Bight Excursion to the north Safe arrival at Eucla.
During the one hundred twenty-two years of which we have records of their voyages, although the Dutch navigators' work, compared with that done by Cook and his successors, was of small account, yet, considering the state of nautical science, and that the ships were for the most part Dutch East Indiamen, the Dutch names which still sprinkle the north and the west coasts of the continent show that from Cape York in the extreme north, westward of the great Australian Bight in the south, the Dutchmen had touched at intervals the whole coast line.
"All right, sir." Thus it happened that the Maid of the North, spick and span, with a new coat of paint on the outside, and a good stock of provisions and articles of trade in her hold, sailed out of Halifax Harbour and turned her prow to the northward on the first day of September, and was plowing her way to the Labrador at the very time that Bob Gray with his mother and Emily were returning so disconsolate to Wolf Bight after hearing the verdict of the mail boat doctor, and Bob was making the plans that carried him into the interior.
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