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calculated to shelter the inhabitants from a 

 storm, In one of them was found a small light 

 shield, and in another a net, which had a hag 

 to it, knotted and made in the same way as 

 it would have been if made by an European 

 workman, 



■Returning- to the sloop they passed a dry shoal 

 lying at the entrance of the river, the deep 

 channel into which was between this shoal and 

 Point Skirmish, where they found from three 

 to six fathoms water. 



Before he left the sloop, Lieut. Flinders gave 

 directions to examine a part on the starboard 

 side, where he suspected the leak to be ; and on 

 his return found it to have been occasioned by 

 the starting of a plank from the timber near the 

 keel. The caulker had filled it up with oakum 

 from the inside, since which she had made but 

 little water. 



From the situation in which the sloop lay, 

 the bay had not any appearance of closing 

 round, but seemed to promise a large river at 

 its head, and a communication with Moreton 

 Bay. At three jn the afternoon they got under 

 weigh to proceed up this river, with a light air 

 from the Northward, standing to the Southward 

 till dark, at which time they anchored three 

 miles from the shore, in five fathoms, on a soft 

 muddy bottom. 



On Wednesday the 17th, at day-light, the 

 sloop got under weigh, with a Southerly 

 breeze, as long as the tide lasted, and anchored 

 about ten o'clock, a mile and a half from a 



