She explained that the stones were laid too regularly.

A closer examination convinced me that the cairn had been built by some European--possibly a castaway--and that at one time it had probably been surmounted by a flag-staff as a signal to passing ships.

Food was very plentiful on this island, roots and yams being obtainable in great abundance.

Rock wallabies were also plentiful.
After leaving this island we continued our journey south, paddling only during the day, and always with the tide, and spending the night on land.
By the way, whilst among the islands, I came across, at various times, many sad signs of civilisation, in the form of a lower mast of a ship, and a deck-house, a wicker-basket, empty brandy cases, and other flotsam and jetsam, which, I supposed, had come from various wrecks.

After having been absent from my home in Cambridge Gulf, two or three months, I found myself in a large bay, which I now know to be King's Sound.