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The first spot visited was The Sandhill, which we found to be forty feet high, in latitude 17 degrees 38 minutes 20 seconds South, longitude 7 degrees 48 minutes 00 seconds East of Port Essington. From its summit we immediately perceived that our conjecture was right respecting the opening close to the eastward.
It is doubtless the bird called by the Port Essington natives, Morduggera, the eggs only of which were found there, the bird itself not having been seen. They were equal in size to those of a guineafowl, of a dirty white, finely speckled with reddish brown.
He gave us to understand that we had come too far to the northward, and that we had to go to the south-west, in order to head Port Essington, and to follow its west coast, in order to arrive at Victoria. We were, in fact, at Raffles Bay. The natives knew every body in Victoria, and did not cease to give us all the news; to which we most willingly listened.
Our anchorage was in 7 fathoms, three quarters of a mile South-East from the highest hill, which I called Mount Flinders; it stands close to the beach, near the east end of the island, and is in latitude 16 degrees 40 minutes 0 seconds South, longitude 7 degrees 45 minutes 25 seconds East of Port Essington.
On the 16th of April, Raffles Bay was found, and named after Sir Stamford Raffles, and the next day they entered Port Essington, which was christened after Vice-Admiral Sir William Essington. King thought that:
The views of Sir Thomas were in favour of obtaining a road to the foot of the Gulf, instead of Port Essington, on account of reducing the land journey considerably, and also there being such a reasonable probability that a large river would be found flowing northward into it. In a letter which the Surveyor-General received from Mr.
It was as hard as a board, and nearly half an inch thick. I had many conversations with Davis himself, and he told me that I should probably find white men at Port Darwin, which he said was between three and four hundred miles away. The tribe at Port Essington, I may mention, only numbered about fifty souls. This was about the year 1868.
"You cannot deceive me that waistcoat was made in Germany! Let me lead you to a respectable tailor!" Yet, despite his bantering tone, it was easy to see that he took an equal pleasure in the meeting. "Ha, ha!" laughed the Baron, "vot a fonny zing to say! Droll as ever, eh?" "Five years less droll than when we first met," said the late Bunker and present Essington.
"Sit down, my dear Baron; that lady over there thinks you are preparing to attack her. Shall we smoke? Try these cigars." Throwing the Baron a shrewd glance to calm his somewhat alarming exhilaration, their host turned with a graver air to his other guest. "Tulliwuddle," said he, "I should like to help you." "I wish to the deuce you could!" Essington bent over the table confidentially.
King's Third Voyage Early misadventures Examines North-West coast closely The Mermaid careened Unforeseen result Return to Sydney The Bathurst King's Fourth Voyage Last of the MERMAID Love's stratagem Remarkable cavern Extraordinary drawings Chasm Island South-West explorations Revisits his old camp Rich vegetation Greville Island Skirmish at Hanover Bay Reminiscence of Dampier His notes on the natives and their mode of living Cape Leveque Buccaneers' Archipelago Provisions run out Sails for the Mauritius Survey of South-West re-commenced Cape Chatham Oyster Harbour anchorage A native's toilet Seal hunt Friendly intercourse Cape Inscription Vandalism Point Cloates not an island Vlaming Head Rowley Shoals Cunningham Botanical success Rogers Island closely examined Mainland traced further An amazing escape from destruction Relinquishment of survey Sails for Sydney Value of King's work Settlement on Melville Island Port Essington Colonisation Fort building A waif Roguish visitors Garrison life Change of scene Raffles Bay Dismal reports Failure of attempt.
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