16. A microfilm copy
of Robert Brown's handwritten diary is held at the National Herbarium,
Black Mountain, Canberra. The section dealing with the stay on Sweers Island
(16-30 November 1802) was read and copied by P. Saenger on 14 September
1990, and later transcribed. Edwards, P.I. (ed.), 'The journal of Peter
Goode, gardener, on Matthew Flinders' voyage to Terra Australis, 1801-03',
Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History Historical Series,
vol. 9, 1981, pp. 1-213.
17. Flinders, op.
cit. vol. 2, p. 228.
18. ibid vol. 2, p.
229.
19. ibid vol. 2, p.
230.
20. A holothurian,
also known as sea-slug, sea-cucumber and beche-de-mer.