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ray--Its character and capabilities--Laborious progress up the river--Accident to the boat--Perilous collision with the natives--Turbid current of the Rufus--Passage of the Rapids--Assisted by the natives--Dangerous intercourse with them--Re-enter the Morumbidgee--Verdant condition of its banks--Nocturnal encounter with the natives--Interesting manifestation of feeling in one family--Reach the spot where the party had embarked on the river--Men begin to fail entirely--Determine to send two men forward for relief--Their return--Excursion on horseback--Reach Pondebadgery Plain, and meet the supplies from the colony--Cannibalism of the natives--Return to Sydney--Concluding remarks. CHAPTER VIII. Environs of the lake Alexandrina--Appointment of Capt. Barker to make a further survey of the coast near Encounter Bay--Narrative of his proceedings--Mount Lofty, Mount Barker, and beautiful country adjacent--Australian salmon--Survey of the coast--Outlet of lake to the sea--Circumstances that led to the slaughter of Capt. Barker by the natives--His character--Features of this part of the country and capabilities of its coasts--Its adaptation for colonization--Suggestions for the furtherance of future Expeditions. APPENDIX. No. I. Geological Specimens found to the south-west of Port Jackson No. II. Official Report to the Colonial Government ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE SECOND VOLUME (Not included in this etext) View on the Morumbidgee River Junction of the supposed Darling with the Murray Palaeornis Melanura, or Black Tailed Paroquet Pomatorhinus Temporalis Pomatorhinus Superciliosus Chart of Cape Jervis, and Encounter Bay Mass of Fossils of the Tertiary Formation Bulla Conus Genus Unknown Chrystallized Selenite Selenite Single Fossils of the Tertiary Formation EXPEDITION DOWN THE MORUMBIDGEE AND MURRAY RIVERS, IN 1829, 1830 AND 1831. CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks on the results of the former Expedition--The fitting out of another determined on--Its objects--Provisions, accoutrements, and retinue--Paper furnished by Mr. Kent--Causes that have prevented the earlier appearance of the present work. OBJECTS OF THE EXPEDITION. The expedition of which we have just detailed the proceedings was so far satisfactory in its results, that it not only set at rest the hypothesis of the existence of an internal shoal sea in southern Australia, and ascertained th
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