Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 2: Session 1857-8, Nos. I. To Vi The natives seemed to unite the characteristics of the Australian and Papuan races. They were ornamented with regularly formed scars, which, being pulled open as they healed, allowed the new flesh to rise and form a prominence as thick as a man's finger. They had spears of hard wood, with pieces of bone, forming points and barbs, lashed on with strips of bark, and bows of bamboo with strings of the outer rind ...
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 2: Session 1857-8, Nos. I. To Vi The natives seemed to unite the characteristics of the Australian and Papuan races. They were ornamented with regularly formed scars, which, being pulled open as they healed, allowed the new flesh to rise and form a prominence as thick as a man's finger. They had spears of hard wood, with pieces of bone, forming points and barbs, lashed on with strips of bark, and bows of bamboo with strings of the outer rind of the same, and arrows of wood or reed tipped with hard wood. These, as well as pieces of tortoise shell, they bartered for sticks of tobacco, handkerchiefs, tire. The country here was covered with ant hills of red clay, twenty feet in height. We searched on Albany Island for the graves of those who perished on Kennedy's Expedition, but I believe none of our party saw them. I painted a record of our visit in black letters on a rock near the beach. On the evening of September zud, the Monarch, which was leading at the time, ran upon a reef and the schooner, which anchored near, grounded for two hours at low water. We found the barque on a flat bed of rock, the inequalities of which we picked away, to lessen the chance of injury to her keel, but were not able to get her off till Monday, the 10th. We obtained a little water from the well mentioned by Captain Stokes on Quail Island. On Friday the 14th of September we anchored near Point Pearce, having seen nothing of the Monarch foa the last three days; and on the 15th we ran up with the flood tide between the broad shoals in the estuary of the Victoria. At night we entered the river, and anchored in Blunder Bay, where, on Sunday the 16th, Mr. Gregory landed with a party to Search for water, and found a rocky pool containing several hundred gallons. We sailed immediately, and, on Monday afternoon, again anchored near Point Pearce, where we found the Monarch landing the horses, which, for want of fresh water, could no longer be kept on board. We of course assisted; and though we had to swim them three miles, forty-one were safely landed, seven or eight having been drowned, one irrecoverably fixed in the mud, and another lost after he was brought ashore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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