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his own boat. Both boats were provided witli long blue 

 lights, &c,, to burn if necessary as signals to the absent 

 party. They went up the harbour as far as the creek. 

 A rocket was fired from the ' Cura9oa,' and a long light. 

 The moon was bright. They had not been gone more than 

 half-an-hour when the three boats were seen leturning ; and 

 they reached the ' Curayoa ' at 9.40 P.M. Mr. Scudamore 

 explained to Sir William how it was he returned so late ; 

 he had been surveying and sounding, and having come to the 

 creek, he had followed it up, and discovered that the ba}' 

 was connected with the sea on the southern side of the 

 island by a channel that opened out into a splendid sheet of 

 water, in which tlieie was not less tlian live fathoms any- 

 where he had sounded, affording a better harbour and 

 anchorage than Avhere we were lying. He would liave 

 taken advantage of this outlet, and would have returned by 

 the sea, had he not thought the Connnodore would be 

 uneasy about him. This surve*' of his proved that instead 

 of there being one island, as everyone imagined, there were, 

 in fact, two isl-uids divided by a creek. 



