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Updated: May 16, 2025
On the arrival of the mail at Port Essington, from Singapore, why should it not be sent to Sydney in a steamer by sea, viâ Captain King's inner passage through Torres' Straits, instead of adopting the far more expensive and uncertain overland route formerly mentioned?
Even her voice, however, fell dully on my ears, for I was fairly mad with rage and despair with myself, for not having gone overland to Port Darwin from Port Essington, as, indeed, I should most certainly have done were it not that Davis had assured me the greater part of the journey lay through deadly swamps and creeks, and great waters swarming with alligators.
"He promised me he would avoid Mr. Bunker I mean Mr. Essington." The Countess started. She had vivid and exceedingly distasteful recollections of Mr. Bunker. "That man! Are they still acquainted?" "Acquainted oh yes; but I give Rudolph credit for more sense and more truthfulness than to renew their friendship."
“Your bill, sare.” “My friend is paying.” “No, Mr Welsh,” cried the real Essington; “I think you had better pay for this dinner yourself.” Welsh saw the vigilant proprietor already coming towards him, and with a look that augured ill for Twiddel when they were alone, he put his hand in his pocket. “Ha, ha!” laughed Essington, “the inevitable bill!”
The route is as follows, making twelve thousand seven hundred and thirty miles in sixty-four days: From England to Singapore, by Egypt, eight thousand three hundred and ninety miles. From Singapore to Fort Essington, by Batavia, two thousand miles. From Port Essington to Sydney, two thousand three hundred and forty miles; the rate being one hundred and ninety-nine miles a-day.
He successfully conducted an expedition from Moreton Bay to the Port Essington of King on the northern coast by which he made known the geographical features of a great part of what is now Queensland, the capital being Brisbane at Moreton Bay. A settlement had been established at Port Essington by the Government of New South Wales, to which colony the whole territory then belonged.
Gronovius, as usual, very communicative; he was much astonished at the size of some bananas I gave him from Port Essington. I may take this opportunity of giving some additional information respecting the Timorees. It appears that after killing an enemy they, like the New Zealanders, preserve the head by baking it; and, during meals, place food in the mouth of their bodiless foe.
“No, I assure you, Mr Essington,” said Twiddel, eagerly; “I give you my word.” “I shall judge by the circumstances rather than your word, sir. It is perhaps unnecessary to inform you that you have had your trouble for nothing.” He looked at them both as though they were curious animals, and then continued: “You, Mr Welsh, are a really wonderfully typical rascal. I am glad to have met you.
At three places upon which King favourably reported, namely Camden Harbour on the north-west coast, Port Essington in Arnhem's Land, and Port Cockburn in Apsley Straits, between Melville and Bathurst Islands on the north coast, military and penal settlements were established, but from want of further emigration these were abandoned.
Thus, through the want of judgment exhibited by a few individuals, has a whole community suffered in the manner I have alluded to, when speaking of the loss of the Orontes at Port Essington.*
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