ABSTRACT
E MBARKING on the S.S. Menmuir we start from Sydney on a lovely evening, September 3rd, 1895, passing Seal Rocks above Newcastle, the bane of our illfated predecessor the Catterthun. A haze hung over the land for the weather had been very dry, and frequent bush-fires were torching up on our left. On the evening of September 5th we anchored in Moreton Bay to pick up some passengers from Brisbane. Next night we sigl!ted Capricorn Light, and the 7th found us moored in a dense fog off the pilot station in Keppel Bay, where by and by we receive cargo from Rockhampton and a medley of Chinese passengers. We leave about noon and pass numerous barren islets that afternoon, and the morning of the 9th found us lying off Townsville. We raised Cape Grafton that afternoon, sighting Rocky Island about daylight, and anchoring off Cooktown about nine o'clock, where we took on board a cargo of b!che-de-mer.
