VOLUME 1. VIEW IN RAFFLES BAY, WITH CROKER'S ISLAND IN THE DISTANCE. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. WOODCUT 1: NATIVE OF DAMPIER'S ARCHIPELAGO ON HIS LOG. CHART OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WEST COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. As surveyed in the years 1818 to 1822 by Phillip P. King, R.N. VIEW OF SOUTH-WEST BAY. GOULBURN ISLAND. Watering party attacked by natives. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. VIEW OF INNER HARBOUR, PORT ESSINGTON. From Spear Point. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. INTERVIEW WITH THE NATIVES OF ST. ASAPH'S BAY, MELVILLE ISLAND. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. VIEW OF THE ENTRANCE OF PORT MACQUARIE. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. VIEW UP THE RIVER HASTINGS. At its junction with King's River. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. WOODCUT 2: NATIVES OF ROCKINGHAM BAY IN THEIR CANOE. WOODCUT 3: NATIVES OF ENDEAVOUR RIVER IN A CANOE, FISHING. WOODCUT 4: MANNER IN WHICH THE NATIVES OF THE EAST COAST STRIKE TURTLE. VIEW OF MOUNT COCKBURN AT THE BOTTOM OF CAMBRIDGE GULF. Taken from the Gut. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. VIEW OF THE ENCAMPMENT IN CAREENING BAY. Where the Mermaid was repaired. From a sketch by P.P. King. Published in May 1825 by John Murray, London. WOODCUT 5: HUTS OF THE NATIVES AT CAREENING BAY. INTRODUCTION. PRELIMINARY REMARKS UPON THE DISCOVERY OF THE TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE VOYAGE. PASSAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. PURCHASE AND EQUIPMENT OF THE MERMAID. Nearly three centuries* have now elapsed since our first knowledge of the Great South Land, the Terra Australis Incognita of ancient geographers; and, until within the last century, comparatively little had been done towards making a minute exploration of its coasts: during the seventeenth century several voyages were made by different Dutch navigators, from whom we have the first-recorded description of its shores; but from the jealous disposition of their East India Company, under whose orders these voyages were performed, the accounts of them were so concealed, and consequently lost or destroyed, that few particulars of a detailed nature have been handed down.** (*Footnote. The late Rear-Admiral Burney, in his History of Discoveries in the South Sea, volume 1 page 380, describes a chart, dated 1542, drawn by Rotz, in which a coast is continued to the 28th degree of south latitude; and immediately below the 30th degree, there is the name of Coste des Herbaiges, answering by an extraordinary coincidence both in climate and in name to Botany Bay.).