whaleboat;, also the Dundee ; stayed: a night at Kalo B<iv,er—a magnificent fresh: water river,, up which he .for 20 miles,'at which distance,further progress,, was stopped by rapids under the Macgilyery Range j sailed for Round Head, and stayed, a night at Hula ; passed inside Fisberm&B'j' Island, and called at, Bolinpita - a fishing village built in the water; saw thousands, of natives at Maiba yillage, and found therp forests of cocoanuttrees and gardens worthy of admiration; anchored off Motimotyj, where the surf breaks on the shore very heavily, and where a boat in which he Was landing was capsized, and be had ,jbo p$ pulled out of the -water by the natives; went a short distance up the Williams River ; sailed through the Gulf of Papua (to Bramble Bay, where he captured four large 1 turtles; and finally steered for Thursday Island, where he arrived yesterday week, and heaid of the reported massacre of ,tjbo Geographical Society's expedition, and offered the loan of the Elsie i ir,the use of a relief party. When at Motimotu, he ascer tained that natives there h.ad had a fight with the inhabitants of an inland village. They were all decorated in feathers.and plumes, carrying bows and arrows, and in a very excited state, but friendly towards white men. There were also there a la»-ge number of Anuapata men trading for sago. These ■ people had lashed fifteen canoes together, had built houses on them, and were waiting for a favourable wind to carry them home. The Williams is ,an unax plored river, broader than the Brisbane, and its current is pure and fresh for two miles imto the ocean. When he heard of the reported massacre of the Bonito party, he received it with discredit, having had pre-, vious experience of tales concocted by the natives. When down near South Cape he wag informed that Sir Peter Scratchley and the Rev. Mr Chalmers had been killed. The statement was invented by a phief, who, in saying he had murdered His Ex cellency and Mr Chalmers, wanted simply by braggadocio to inflate his own import ance. Stories of that kind, too, as soon as they get a start, travel (Mr Potts says) from tribe to tribe with a rapidity which nearly rivals telegraphic communication. 