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breeze from the southward ; steered to give Fair 

 Cape a berth. I observed tlie entrance of a larg*e 

 river at the north end of We3aiiouth Bay. At 

 half-past ten a.m., passed Piper's Islands, and 

 steered for Young* Island ; could not make it out 

 for some time, when Ave did see it, found it only a 

 small reef above water, not worthy the name of an 

 island ; such a misnomer is likely to mislead ; 

 hauled up for the reef M. At noon, abreast of 

 Hag'o-erstone Island, steered to give Sir Everard 

 Home's Isles a berth ; saw natives on Cape Gren- 

 ville ; hauled in for Sunday Island ; the wind ligiit 

 from the eastward ; passed Thorpe Point, and 

 hauled in for Ilound Point. At five p.m., anchored 

 in six fathoms, mud. Bearing's at anchor. North 

 Sand Hill, D, (conical hill), S.E. i E. j South Wind 

 Hillock, (a saddle hill), S. | E. ; the remarkable 

 sand-patch, S.W. ^ W. j Jackey's Pudding'-pan 

 Hill, W. i N. Got the whaleboat and crew ready 

 to start at daylig-ht for Shelburne Bay. 



On consulting' Jackey about g'oing* to the camp 

 where the three men were left, he said it was no use 

 g'oing- there; the distance was g'reat, and the 

 country scrubby, and that he was sure if any of the 

 men were alive, they would be on the sea-coast. 

 Dunn, one of the men, told him, if Costig'an died, 

 he should come down to the beach directly. I 

 therefore considered all that we could do would be 

 to thoroug'hly examine the coast with the Avhaleboat, 

 close in shore, and the brig' as near as she prudently 

 could approach. 



