to ascertain and fix the geographical features of New Guinea and the nature of its fauna, flora, geology, and climate, and to illustrate the same by specimens, sketches, photographs, and written descriptions.
He has also to note the distance and course travelled, and to describe and fix the position of all the principal physical features of the country along the line of route, and on either side of it, as far as practicable, and daily to complete, from his observations, a feature map of the country traversed, a copy of which may be furnished to the scientific officers of the party, if desired.
From there she would make her way to Mibu Island, in the Fly delta, and take on coal and fresh provisions from the schooner Mavis before proceeding up-river.
[6] On returning to base they found tropical rains had lifted the Bonito off the shoal into deep water, so they steamed down the river and reached Thursday Island, and were back in Sydney on 3 December 1885.
Accounts of supposed disaster were published in Sydney and Melbourne papers of 9 November and were not contradicted until the party had returned to Thursday Island.
He married Amy Frances Whitton on 21 August 1888 A seasoned explorer of New Guinea: he had spent 18 months with Andrew Goldie's 1877–1878 expedition, and another in 1878 with William Bairstow Ingham of the steamer Voura, and his engineer William Isles, who were murdered by tribesmen of Brooker Island, and which he survived, having been left behind at the base camp.
[13] He and his brother were sea-canoeists of considerable achievements[14] He was later a professional fisherman near Pinjarra, Western Australia and was murdered by his business partner Oki Iwakichi.
[15] Of Sydney had been on an 1876 New Guinea expedition as a bird collector, with Octavius C. Stone of the Royal Geographical Society and Lawrence Hargrave.
[21] Engineer of the steam launch Bonito Online image available via the State Library of NSW Shows route taken with dates and descriptive notes, some co-ordinate positions, villages, rivers, islands.
"That portion of the river above Observatory Bend was explored by Leader and party in the whaleboat; and was plotted and drawn from notes by Mr.