SUNDAY STRAIT — ROe's GROUP. 109 



* Twins.' It should be noted, that the tide did not 

 begin to make to the southward till 8 h. 15 ra. a.m., 

 being full half an hour after low water by the shore. 

 We passed through several tide races ; not, how- 

 ever, feeling their full force, owing to our encoun- 

 tering them at the time of slack water. In every 

 case our soundings indicated great irregularity of 

 bottom, the cause to which I have already assigned 

 these impediments to in-shore navigation. 



We found a temporary anchorage the same morn- 

 ing, on the east side of the large group forming the 

 eastern side of Sunday Strait ; so named by Captain 

 King, who was drifted in and out of it on that day, 

 August 19th, 1821, amid an accumulation of perils 

 that will long render the first navigation of this 

 dangerous Archipelago a memorable event in the 

 annals of nautical hardihood. This group we 

 called after Lieutenant Roe, R.N., Surveyor-Ge- 

 neral of Western Australia, who had accompanied 

 Captain King in that perilous voyage, and whose 

 valuable information had enabled us to escape so 

 many of the dangers to which our predecessors had 

 been exposed. 



Nothing could exceed the desolate appearance of 

 the land near which we were now lying : rocks, of 

 a primitive character, massed together in all the 



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