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CHAP. V. 



RANGE FROM THE BAY OF ISLANDS ROUND NORTH CAPE 

 TO i^UEEN charlotte's SOUND; AND A DESCRIPTION OF 

 THAT PART ^F THE COAST. 



On Thursday the 7th of December, at noon, Cape 

 Bret bore S. S. E. i E. distant ten miles, and our lati- 

 tude, by observation, was 34° 59' S. ; soon after we 

 made several observations of the sun and moon, the 

 result of which made our longitude 185° S& W. The 

 wind being against us, we had made but little w^ay. 

 In the afternoon, we stood in shore, and fetched 

 close under the Cavalies, from w^hich islands the main 

 trends W. by N.: several canoes put off and followed 

 us, but a light breeze springing up, I did not choose 

 to wait for them. I kept standing to the W. N. W. 

 and N. W. till the next morning ten o'clock, when I 

 tacked and stood in for the shore, from which we were 

 about five leagues distant. At noon, the westernmost 

 land in sight bore W. by S. and was about four leagues 

 distant. In the afternoon, we had a gentle breeze 

 to the west, which in the evening came to the south, 

 and continuing so all night, by day-light brought us 

 pretty well in with the land, seven leagues to the 

 westward of the Cavalies, where we found a deep bay 

 running in S. W. by W. and W. S. W. the bottom of 

 which we could but just see, and there the land ap- 

 peared to be low and level. To this bay, which I 

 called Doubtless Bay, the entrance is formed by 

 two points, which lie W. N. W. and E. S. E. and are 

 five miles distant from each other. The wind not 

 permitting us to look in here, we steered for the 

 westernmost land in sight, which bore from us W. N. 



