NAUTICAL REMARKS. 433 



is a channel sufficiently deep for the largest ship. Nearly in 

 the centre of this channel, outside withal, there is a coral 

 bank named Blossom Rock, having a good passage on either 

 side of it. The channel between it and Abbey Point should 

 be adopted with southerly winds and flood tides, and that to 

 the northward with the reverse. A reef extends off Abbey 

 Point, which, for convenience of description, will be called 

 Abbey Reef. When off Abbey Point a rocky headland will 

 be seen, about a mile and a half north of the town ; this I 

 shall call Kumi Head, and upon the ridge of high land beyond 

 it three hummocks v/ill be seen to the left of a cluster of trees. 

 In the distance, a little to the left of these, is Mount Onno- 

 dake, in latitude 26° 27' N. A remarkable rock, which, from 

 its form, has been named Capstan Rock, will next appear; and 

 then, to the northward of the town, a rocky head with a house 

 upon its summit, which I shall call False 'Capstan Head. At 

 the back of Capstan Rock there is a hill, named Sheudi, upon 

 which the upper town is built. The highest southern point of 

 this is one of the landmarks to which I shall have to refer. 



Having opened out the Capstan Rock, haul towards Abbey 

 Reef, and bring the right-hand hummock about 4^ to the 

 east of Kumi Head, and steering in with these marks on, you 

 will pass through the south channel in about seven fathoms 

 water, over the tail of Blossom Rock. You may now round 

 Abbey Reef tolerably close, and steer in for the anchorage. 

 Should the wind veer to the eastward in the passage between 

 Blossom Rock and Abbey Point, with the above-mentioned 

 marks on, you must not stand to the northward, unless the 

 outer cluster of trees near the extremity of Wood Point are in 

 one with, or open to the westward of. Table Hill, a square 

 rocky headland to the southward of it. This mark clears also 

 the tongue of Oar Reef, which with Blossom Rock forms the 

 other western channel. 



It is advisable, with the wind to the north-eastward, to beat 



through the channel north of Blossom Rock (Oar Channel), 



in preference to that above-mentioned. To do this, brino- the 



false capstan4iead in one with a flat cluster of trees on the 



ridge to the right of the first gap south of Sheudi : this will 



