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Groote Eylandt, Chasm Island and Blue-Mud Bay5 January 1803 - 30 January 1803

In the Gulf of Carpentaria the gentlemen explore Groote Eylandt. On 14 January they find Aboriginal paintings on rock inside a cavern on Chasm Island. At Morgan Island in Blue-Mud Bay the crew get into a skirmish with the locals. One of the party shoots an Aboriginal man dead. Thomas Morgan dies of sunstroke after his hat is stolen.

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  • Cabbage or sand palm—Livistona humilis
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 225, 10620

  • Lacewing vine—Adenia heterophylla
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 60, 11719

  • Groote Eylandt, a view
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138890044

  • Chasm Island, native cave painting
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138890494

  • Native mistletoe—Decaisnina brittenii
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 146, 6959