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o'clock P.M., had worked through Sunday Strait, 

 where we encountered its usual heavy tide races. 

 At four o'clock in the afternoon, CafFarelli Island 

 bore E.S.E., 9 miles distant: and about six, the wind, 

 which through the day had been light and variable 

 quite deserted us, when to avoid drifting back into 

 the strait we anchored in 29 fathoms ; Caffarelli 

 Island bearinof S.S.E. 5 miles. The tide here 

 appeared to be one hour earlier than in Sunday 

 Strait : the flood set in a south-easterly, and the 

 ebb in an opposite direction, at the rate of from half 

 to one mile per hour. 



The 24th saw us again under weigh, by the light 

 of the stars, but the wind being variable and against 

 us, we did not get beyond Adele Island, where we 

 anchored in 14 fathoms: the nearest part of it 

 bearing N. 75° E. 3 miles. Brue Reef was seen in 

 the course of the day, and appeared to be correctly 

 laid down by Captain King : there appeared, how- 

 ever, some discrepancy in the position of Adele 

 Island, the southern extremity of which we found 

 to be in latitude 15° 32' 30" S., which is one mile 

 and a half to the southward of the place assigned 

 to it in his chart. The sea was breaking 

 heavily on the reef, which fronts the island for a 

 distance of two miles. The island itself is low, 

 desolate and barren. We noticed there was scarcely 

 any set of tide at this anchorage. During the 

 day's progress we found several coral ledges, in 

 from 11 to 13 fathoms, and trending N.E. by E., 



