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either fish or wild-fowl, except a few small land birds: 

 we saw indeed the same sorts of water-fowl as in Bo- 

 tany Bay, but they were so shy that we could not get 

 a shot at them. 



As I had not therefore a single inducement to stay 

 longer in this place, I weighed anchor at six o'clock 

 in the morning of Thursday the 31st of May, and 

 put to sea. We stood to the N. W. with a fresh 

 breeze at S. S. E., and kept without the group of 

 islands that lie in shore, and to the N. W. of Thirsty 

 Sound, as there appeared to be no safe passage be- 

 tween them and the main ; at the same time we had 

 a number of islands without us, extending as far as 

 we could see : during our run in this direction, our 

 depth of water was ten, eight, and nine fathom. At 

 noon, the west point of Thirsty Sound, which I have 

 called Pier Head, bore S. 36 E., distant five leagues; 

 the east point of the other inlet, which communicates 

 with the Sound, bore S.by W., distant two leagues; the 

 group of islands just mentioned lay between us and 

 the point, and the farthest part of the main in sight, 

 on the other side of the inlet, bore N. W. Our lati- 

 tude by observation was 21 53' . At half an hour 

 after twelve, the boat, which was sounding ahead, 

 made the signal for shoal-water, and we immediately 

 hauled our wind to the N. E. At this time we had 

 seven fathom, at the next cast five, and at the next 

 three, upon which we instantly dropped an anchor, 

 that brought the ship up. Pier-head, the north- 

 west point of Thirsty Sound, bore S. E. distant six 

 leagues, being half-way between the islands which 

 lie off the east point of the western inlet, and three 

 small islands which lie directly without them. It was 

 now the first of the flood, which we found to set 

 N. W. by W. - W. ; and having sounded about the 

 shoal, upon which we had three fathom, and found 

 deep water all round it, we got under sail, and hav- 

 ing hauled round the three islands that have been 



