OF LA PEROUSE, 6^ 



CHAPTER XL 



Departure fro7n Rocki/ Bay. JFe pass through 

 D' EntrecasteaiLv' s Strait. llie Ships run 

 a2:roujid in this Strait. Various excursions 

 into the neighbouring countrij. Interview 

 ivith the natives. They deposit in the woods 

 their armst xvhich they resume on going axvay . 

 JVe anchor in Adventure Bay, 



yJN the 14th of February, as foon as it was 

 day-break, we got under fail from Rocky Bay 

 with the wind at fouth-weft, and fleered to the 

 caft north-ead till we were clear of it, intend- 

 ing to go and anchor in D'Entrecafteaux's 

 Strait. 



Some natives gave us figns of their prefence, 

 by feveral fires which they had lighted on the 

 eafl: coaft. 



We had already crofTed the great roadftead 

 which lies at the entrance of the Strait, and, in 

 the utmoft fecurity, were running very clofe 

 along the coaft, which was on our larboard hand, 

 when, about half paft one o'clock in the after- 

 noon, we ftruck on a fhoal, of no great extent, 

 formed of fand mixed with mud. The ebb had 



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