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Ten months we had now spent in the tropics, in the 

 hottest seas of the globe, and we now felt, on a beautiful No- 

 vember morning in the southern tropics, as on a clear spring 

 morning at home. On 4th November we had our first peep 

 of the coast of Australia at Smoky Cape, a fresh easterly 

 breeze filling our sails, as we bowled along at 10 knots an 

 hour, constantly nearing the next station of our voyage. 

 On the 5th, at 2 p. m., the not very high land round Port 

 Jackson came in sight, and we had not to alter her course 

 by one spoke, so that our chronometer had given unmis- 

 takeable proof of its accuracy. The coast is for the most 

 part rather flat and monotonous, but we soon recognized the 

 entrance by North Cape, which rises sheer out of the water 

 at the harbour mouth, where we also took a pilot on board. 

 The light-house here, 420 feet above sea-level, had been 

 visible from the deck of the frigate 15 miles away I During 

 the whole voyage we had only seen one vessel, an American 

 clipper off the Marianne Archipelago, and were greatly 

 amazed to find not a single sail in the vicinity of the port. 

 At last, just as we got abreast of the entrance, we saw a 

 steamer and some small boats making for the land. At 

 6 p. M., after a voyage of 82 days, during which we had 

 sailed 5930 miles, the anchor was let go in the magnificent 

 harbour of Port Jackson, off Garden Island, to the N. E. of 

 the city of Sydney. We had reached in safety the fifth 

 quarter of the globe ! 



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