In my former narrative I described our exploration of the Herbert
River, lying at the south end of Rockingham Channel, with its
fruitless issue, and I now take up the thread of my story from that
point, thinking it can hardly fail to be of interest to the reader, not
only as regards the wild nature of the country traversed, but also as
showing the anxiety manifested by the inhabitants of these remote
districts to clear up the fate of their unhappy brethren. I may also
here mention, for the information of such of my readers as may not
have read the preceding portions of the narrative, that Cardwell is
the name of a small township situated on the shores of Rockingham
Bay, and that Townsville is a settlement some hundred miles further
south, known also as Cleveland Bay.