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about a league in circuit, and we saw upon it five of 

 the natives, two of whom had lances in their hands ; 

 they came down upon a point, and having looked a 

 little while at the ship, retired. To the N. W. of it 

 are several low islands and quays, which lie not far 

 from the main ; and to the northward and eastward 

 are several other islands and shoals ; so that we were 

 now encompassed on every side : but haying lately 

 been exposed to much greater danger, and rocks and 

 shoals being grown familiar, we looked at them com- 

 paratively with little concern. The main land ap- 

 peared to be low and barren, interspersed with large 

 patches of the very fine white sand which we had 

 found upon Lizard Island and different parts of the 

 main. The boats had seen many turtle upon the 

 shoals which they passed, but it blew too hard for 

 them to take any. At noon our latitude, by observ- 

 ation was 12, and our longitude 217 25' : our depth 

 of water was fourteen fathom ; and our course and 

 distance, reduced to a straight line, was, between 

 this time and the preceding noon, N. 29 W. thirty- 

 two miles. 



The main land within the islands that have been 

 just mentioned forms a point, which I called Cape 

 Grenville : it lies in latitude 11 58', longitude 

 217 38' ; and between it and Bolt Head is a bay, 

 which I called Temple Bay. At the distance of 

 nine leagues from Cape Grenville, in the direction 

 of E. -- N. lie some high islands, which I called Sir 

 Charles Hardy's Isles ; and those which lie off 

 the Cape I called Cockburn's Isles. Having lain 

 by for the boats, which had got out of their station, 

 till about one o'clock, we then took the yawl in tow ; 

 and the pinnace having got a-head, we filled, and 

 stood N. by W. for some small islands which lay in that 

 direction ; such at least they were in appearance, 

 but upon approaching them we perceived that they 

 were joined together by a large reef: upon this we 

 edged away N. W. and left them on our starboard 



