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 AND mS STAFF. 181 But his mind was large enough for something more than 1787-W navigation ; and although he does not enter into any ex- pression of his personal views or feelings on the subject, his reader soon begins to see that the captain of the Si^ius had his heart in the work in which he was engaged. He was an active as well as a cordial colleague of Phillip in every An active thing that could tend to promote the interest of the settle- ^ ***" ' ment. Difficulties did not keep him idle. A few days after his arrival with the transports in Port Jackson, he set off with a six-oared boat and a smaller one, for the purpose of making as good a survey of the harbour as circumstances would admit. His tracings of the survey, as well as his chart surveys. of the coast between Botany Bay and Broken Bay, pub- lished at page 101 of his quarto, remain to show how well the work was done. The interest he took in the exploration of the country inland led him to publish at the same time a '^Map of all those Parts of the Territory of New South Wales which have been seen by any person belonging to the Settlement established at Port Jackson,*' constructed by Lieutenant Dawes in March, 1791. As the first of all our exploration maps, it has historical as well as geographical JJ^j^^^ interest, and deserves to be carefully studied by those who map- would understand the history of Australian exploration in its earliest stage. Another useful map, representing the pro- gress of the settlement, was drawn by Hunter in 1798, and published by Collins in the second volume of his work, facing the title-page. The original tracing contains a note in Hun- ter's handwriting, informing us that " the red lines show the country which has been lately walked over.'' The explora- tion of the unknown interior interested him, apparently, quite as much as it did Phillip, whom he accompanied on several expeditions. He was one of the party which dis- covered the Hawkesbury River, and his account of the jour- ney is full of interest. It was on this occasion that they met with the interesting little adventure with the young ^^ native woman and her child, sketched by Hunter on the spot, an engpraving of which appears on his title-page. On Digitized by Google