114 MAKE FOR PALLISER ISLANDS. 
appeared to be a narrow strip of land, thickly 
overgrown with low bushes, surrounding a lake 
in the centre. Sea-birds only, of which we saw 
a vast number, appeared to inhabit this waste. _ 
The latitude of the middle of this island we 
found to be 15° 27’, and its longitude 145° 31’ 
12”. According to the chart of Admiral Kru- 
senstern, it may be the island called Carlshof, 
discovered in the year 1722, by Roggewin, the 
geographical position of which is given differ- 
ently on almost every chart, and whose very 
existence has been disputed. We were now in 
the midst of the dangerous Archipelago, and 
consulted our safety by riding every night only 
in parts which we had surveyed during the 
day. 
After reiterated nightly storms and rains, we 
shaped our course, with full sails, on the re- 
turn of fine weather, due East, for the Palliser 
Islands discovered by Captain Cook, and 
reached them in a few hours. On board the 
Rurik, I had only seen their northern side, and 
I now wished, astronomically, to determine the 
southern. Cook mentions these islands very 
superficially, so that navigators have fallen 
