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Melville Bay, English Company Islands and Wessel's Islands16 February 1803 - 6 March 1803

The Investigator anchors briefly in Melville Bay then heads for the English Company Islands. They encounter a fleet of prows from Macassar on a diving expedition for sea cucumbers to sell in Timor. Flinders meets with Chief Pobassoo. After the prows leave, the British crew survey the area. Mr Good plants cocoa nuts and potatoes upon Pobassoo's Island. They depart for the Wessel's Islands. Flinders regretfully defers the remainder of the Australia expedition until a viable ship can be procured.

Flinders

  • Bush carrot—Abelmoschus moschatus
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 11, 6959

  • The English Company's Islands, Probasso, a Malay chief
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138888247

  • Hooded parrot—Psephotus Dissimilis
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—993679902081_016, Plate 14

  • White rein orchid— Habenaria elongata
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 206, 6959

  • View of Malay Road from Pobassoo's Island
    Artists William Westall and J Byrne
    Views of Australian Scenery, London: G & W Nicol, 1814
    History Trust of South Australia – State History Collection, HT 2014.0601