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and twenty fathom, with good anchorage every 

 where, and the whole passage may be considered as 

 one safe harbour, exclusive of the small bays and 

 coves which abound on each side, where ships might 

 lie as in a bason. The land, both upon the main 

 and islands, is high, and diversified by hill and 

 valley, wood and lawn, with a green and pleasant 

 appearance. On one of the islands, we discovered 

 with our glasses two men and a woman, and a canoe 

 with an outrigger, which appeared to be larger, and 

 of a construction very different from those of bark 

 tied together at the ends, which we had seen upon 

 other parts of the coast ; we hoped therefore that 

 the people here had made some farther advances 

 beyond mere animal life than those that we had seen 

 before. At six o'clock in the evening, we were 

 nearly the length of the north end of the passage ; 

 the north westermost point of the main in sight 

 bore N. 54 W., and the north end of the island 

 N. N. E., with an open sea between the two points. 

 As this passage was discovered on Whitsunday, I 

 called it Whitsunday's Passage; and I called the 

 islands that form it Cumberland Islands, in honour 

 of his Royal Highness the Duke. We kept under 

 an easy sail, with the lead going all night, being at 

 the distance of about three leagues from the shore, 

 and having from twenty-one to twenty-three fathom 

 water. At day-break, we were abreast of the point 

 which had been the farthest in sight to the north- 

 west the evening before, which I named Cape Glou- 

 cester. It is a lofty promontory, in latitude 19 59' 

 S., longitude 211 49' W., and may be known by an 

 island which lies out at sea N. by W. W. at the 

 distance of five or six leagues from it, and which I 

 called Holborne Isle ; there are also islands lying 

 under the land between Holborne Isle and Whit- 

 sunday's Passage. On the west side of Cape Glou- 

 cester the land trends away S. W. and S. S. W., and 

 forms a deep bay, the bottom of which I could but 



