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Owing to the water being very smooth, we found 

 ourselves embayed on approaching the point of the 

 above mentioned bight, by a reef, the outer part of 

 which bore S. 37° W. fifteen miles from Mount 

 Fairfax. The delay caused in clearing this danger, 

 made it evening by the time we reached Champion 

 Bay, in lat. 28" 47' S., from whence we had pre- 

 viously examined the coast northward for nearly 

 thirty miles. We had, therefore, now satisfactorily 

 ascertained that, excepting Champion Bay, there 

 was no good anchorage on the coast between the 

 latitudes of 28° 20' S. and 29" 20' S.* • 



From what I have said, it will appear, that the 

 point represented in Arrowsmith's map, as shelter- 

 ing the north side, has no real existence. It is 

 probable, that the following passage from Mr. 

 Moore's Journal, may have had some share in sug- 

 gesting the contrivance. 



" To the south of the tongue of land which forms 

 the bay, there is also another bay, which would be 

 completely sheltered from all northerly winds, so 

 as to combine, between the two bays, perfect shelter 

 at all seasons of the year.** 



This point being set at rest, we proceeded with 

 a large armed party at daylight on the morning of 

 the 15th, to examine the country. Landing, we 

 took an E. by S. direction for Mount Fairfax, the 

 nearest and most commanding point. About one 

 mile and a half from the beach, we crossed the dry 

 * For a description of Champion Bay, see pp. 140 — 143. 



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