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larity, resembling the waves that rolled in on 

 the shore. 



Water and fuel are abundant on the point abreast 

 of Rabbit Island. Southward from this projection 

 a sandy beach extends five miles, with a rivulet at 

 either end, and separated from a small deep bay* 

 open to the east, by a remarkable bluff, the abrupt 

 termination of a high woody ridge. The trees on 

 the south-west side were large and measured eight 

 feet in diameter. In the humid shelter they afibrded. 

 the tree and a variety of other kinds of fern were 

 growing in great luxuriance, with a profusion of 

 creepers matted together in a dense mass of rich 

 foliage. From thence southwards the shore is rocky 

 and the water deep. 



Refuge Cove, lying seven miles S. J W. from 

 Rabbit Island, was our next anchorage. It was so 

 named from its being the only place a vessel can 

 find shelter in from the eastward on this side of the 

 Promontory. Of this we ourselves felt the benefit j 

 for although in the middle of June east winds pre- 

 vailed the first few days we stayed there, with thick 

 hazy weather, whilst at Rabbit Island we had 

 constant westerly gales with a great deal of hail and 

 sleet. This small cove, being only a cable wide at 



tion. * * * On the twenty-second day after they had 

 abandoned their horses, the travellers came in sight of Western 

 Port." 



* This bay is evidently Sealer's Cove in the old charts ; but 

 this part of the Strait is so much in error that it is hardly 

 possible to recognize any particular point. 



