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Updated: June 10, 2025
We sailed yesterday from our anchorage in Redscar Bay, but did not clear the sunken ridge of coral in the offing a submarine extension of the Barrier Reef, stretching between Low Island and the vicinity of South-west Cape until this forenoon, when we got out of soundings.
We passed a fine village Umiakurape on a ridge west of Karikatana; the chiefs name is Vaniakoeta. It would make a splendid station. The high ridge at the back of Epakari, along which we came, is 1000 feet high, and from it we saw Fisherman's Island, Redscar Bay, Bootless Inlet, and the whole coast east to Round Head. 9th. Arrived at Keninumu at half-past ten a.m. Found all well.
Friendly reception at Darnley Island, and proceedings there. Bramble Cay and its turtle. Stay at Redscar Bay. Further description of the natives, their canoes, etc. Pass along the South-east coast of New Guinea. Call at Duchateau Islands. Passage to Sydney. Observations on Geology and Ethnology. Origin of the Australians considered. December 3rd.
It is not unlikely that the Papuans of Redscar Bay and its vicinity derived the use of the bow and arrow from their neighbours to the westward and that the kind of canoe in use in Torres Strait was an introduction from the eastward, is rendered probable setting aside other considerations by a circumstance suggested by the vocabularies, i.e. that the name for the most characteristic part of the canoe in question the outrigger float is essentially the same from the Louisiade to Cape York.*
The inhabitants of Redscar Bay, judging from what was seen alongside the ship, are rather smaller in stature than those seen at Dufaure and Brumer Islands and the Louisiade, but perhaps more frequently show handsome features and good expression. Neither were there any men exceeding the rest in height by even three inches, as had often been the case in other places.
Some conical hills scattered along the coast may possibly be of volcanic origin, especially one of that form rising to the height of 645 feet from the lowland behind Redscar Head.
Shoals points anchorages ah, Redscar, Owen Bay, Likikili Bay, that's more like it; deep indentation, mangrove swamps, good holding in nine fathoms when white scar in bluff bears west-southwest." Grief looked up. "That's your beach, Pankburn, I'll swear." "Will you go?" the other demanded eagerly. Grief nodded. "It sounds good to me.
Grief, with compass bearings and binoculars, identified the volcano that marked Redscar, ran past Owen Bay, and lost the last of the breeze at the entrance to Likikili Bay. With the two whaleboats out and towing, and with Carl-sen heaving the lead, the Kittiwake sluggishly entered a deep and narrow indentation. There were no beaches.
On several successive evenings about sunset, and until it became too dark to distinguish them, immense numbers of frigate-birds were observed flying over Redscar Head, and going out to the North-North-East.
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