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Captain Cook compared to former Visitors Point Hicks Botany Bay-First natives seen Indifference to Overtures Abundant flora Entrance to Port Jackson missed ENDEAVOUR on a reef Careened Strange animals Hostile natives A sailor's devil Possession Island-Territory of New South Wales Torres Straits a passage La Perouse Probable fate discovered by Captain Dillon M'Cluer touches Arnheim's Land Bligh and Portlock Wreck of the PANDORA Vancouver in the south The D'Entrecasteaux quest Recherche Archipelago Bass and Flinders Navigation and exploration extraordinary The TOM THUMB Bass explores south Flinders in the Great Bight Bass's Straits Flinders in the INVESTIGATOR Special instructions King George's Sound Lossof boat's crew Memory Cove Baudin's courtesy Port Phillip INVESTIGATOR and LADY NELSON on East Coast The Gulf of Carpentaria and early Dutch navigators Duyfhen Point Cape Keer-Weer Mythical rivers charted Difficulty in recognising their landmarks Flinders' great disappointment A rotten ship Return by way of West Coast Cape Vanderlin Dutch Charts Malay proas, Pobassoo Return to Port Jackson Wreck of the PORPOISE Prisoner by the French General de Caen Private papers and journals appropriated Prepares his charts and logs for press Death Sympathy by strangers Forgotten by Australia The fate of Bass Mysterious disappearance Supposed Death.
A friendly interview was obtained with them, and from the chief, Pobassoo, Flinders learnt that this was the sixth or seventh voyage that he had made to the Australian coast. He had a great horror of the pigs on board the INVESTIGATOR, but a decided liking for the port wine with which he was regaled.
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