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  abreast of what is now known as Watsons selection

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They entered the bay, and examined
it, but seeing that it was all low mangrove country
turned back and went to Double Island, where
they camped for the night
After breakfast next morning they went ashore on
the mainland, and prospected the neighbourhood
for five or six hours, but found no encouragement
so returning to Double Island, camped there for
the night
Early next morning they proceeded in a northerly
direction, and, passing the mouth of the Mowbray
river, reached Island Point where the town of Port
Douglas now stands, and pulled up the Inlet at
about 6.0 p.m. About the point where the powder
magazine is now situated they noticed smoke
Shortly afterwards they sighted about eight native
canoes.
The aboriginals were busily engaged cooking fish,
and numbered about fifty, including gins and
children
Directly they sighted the explorers the natives ran
into the mangroves, and the party took possession
of their camp, and confiscated a large quantity
of shell and other fish which they found there, half
cooked, and on which they supped.
They then camped there, and went Northwards early
next morning; proceeding along the coast they reached
the mouth of the Mossman river, on the shore of which
they noticed chips, apparently made by an axe, and
concluded that there had been white men about there
at some time
After pulling up the river for about two miles,
abreast of what is now known as Watsons selection
they camped, and next morning after breakfast
discovered straggling cedar on the banks.