Interview with the Natives at Rockingham Bay, and loss of a boat off Cape Tribulation.

Arrival off Endeavour River.

[CHAPTER 6.]

Transactions at Endeavour River, and intercourse with the Natives.

Examine the River.

Geognostical Remarks.

Leave Endeavour River, and resume the examination of the coast.

Anchor among Howick's Group, and under Flinders' Group.

Explore Princess Charlotte's Bay, and the Islands and Reefs as far as Cape York, anchoring in the way on various parts of the coast.

The cutter nearly wrecked at Escape River.