CHAPTER IX.

Refitting Ship at Sydney--Mr. Haswell joins us--We proceed Northwards along East Coast of Australia--Port Curtis, Queensland--A "Labour Vessel"--Mr. Eastlake--Marine Fauna abundant--Festivities at Gladstone--Birds--Percy Islands--Survey of Port Molle--Queensland Aborigines--"Black Police"--"Dispersing" Black fellows--Dredging Operations--A Parasitic Shell-fish--Port Denison--Visit to a Native Camp--Throwing the Boomerang--A Beche-de-mer Establishment at Lizard Island--Hostility of the Natives--Drawings by Aborigines at Clack Island--Albany Island, North-Eastern Australia 180-193