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in consequence, as they assert, of strong north-easterly 

 winds prevailing on the east of Mindoro, when calms 

 and light airs are experienced on its western side. But 

 the breeze leading me off shore in a line for one of the 

 reported shoals, I could not forego the opportunity of 

 searching for it, and if possible securing its position. We 

 did not succeed, and as I subsequently found that it was 

 termed " Camden shoal "; I suspect, therefore, that it 

 was only an erroneous position for the Panagatan shoal, 

 on which we know that the ' Camden ' was wrecked. 



On reaching the northern extremity of Panay,. we 

 found by our sea reckoning that the three islets of 

 Moralisan, Balbatan and Napula, were situated much 

 more to the eastward than where they are placed upon 

 the recent Spanish Charts, and on sighting Quiniluban, 

 the southernmost of the Cuyos Islands, I observed that 

 the second island in sight, then bearing S.W., when 

 Quiniluban bore W.S.W., was not placed on the Chart 

 furnished by the Admiralty ; but on the private set of 

 Spanish Charts furnished by my friend Capt. Salomon, I 

 noticed that they were nearer the truth, although not 

 correct. Having also on my passage up these seas, in 

 December last, noticed the appearance of rocks and islets 

 to the westward of the Cuyos, which are not placed upon 

 the Charts, I am disposed to think that the entire Cuyos 

 Group, indeed, all southerly of Capt. Ross's Survey, ter- 

 minating I believe about the southern limit of the Apo 

 Bank, and Eastern Calamianes, ere very much in error, 

 and render the passage eastward of Palawan unsafe, 

 until further surveys have been effected in that region. 



A favourable leading wind, enabling us to make 



