172 CAPTAIN EDWARDS. 



confirmed the existence of such a strait by passing* 

 from east to west between the shores of Austraha 

 and New Guinea. 



The Boudeuse and Etoile were eng-aged in work- 

 ing* to windward along- this new land (as it was 

 thoug-ht to be) until the 26th^ when^ having doubled 

 its eastern pointy to which the significant name of 

 Cape DeHverance was given^ they were enabled to 

 bear away to the N.N.E. The name of Gulph of 

 the Louisiade was bestowed by Bougainville upon 

 the whole of the space thus traversed by him^ 

 extending between Cape DeHverance and that por- 

 tion of (what has since been determined to be) the 

 coast of New Guinea of which he gives so glowing a 

 description^ and calls the Cul de Sac de TOrangerie 

 upon his chart. 



The next addition to our knowledge of these shores 

 was made in August^ 1791; by Captain Edwards in 

 H.M.S. Pandora^ shortly before the wreck of that 

 vessel in Torres Strait; ^\ hen returning from Tahiti 

 with the mutineers of the Bounty. In the pubhshed 

 narrative of that V03^age the following brief account 

 is given. '' On the 23rd; saw land; which we sup- 

 posed to be the LouisiadC; a cape bearing north-east 

 and by east. We called it Cape Hodne}'. Another 

 contiguous to it was called Cape Hood : and a moun- 

 tain between theni; we named Mount Clarence. 

 After passing Caj)e Hood; the land appears lower; 

 and to trench away about north-west; forming* a 

 deep bay; and it may be doubted whether it joins 



