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We found on this, the largest of the group, a 

 small black dog, that had been left behind by some 

 visitor, recently I should say, from his anxiety to be 

 taken on board, which was done. It was, also, on 

 this island that the intrepid Bass met a number of 

 runaway convicts, who had been treacherously left by 

 their companions one night when asleep, the party 

 being too large for the boat they had run away with 

 from Sydney, with the intention of plundering the 

 wreck of the "Sydney Cove," at Preservation 

 Island in Banks Strait. Thus they were actually 

 the first to traverse this part of the Strait, which 

 has received its name from the enterprising 

 Mr. Bass. 



Leaving the Glennie Isles we examined the coast 

 beyond Cape Liptrap;* and from thence made the 

 best of our way to Western Port. There I availed 

 myself of the kind offer of Mr. Anderson — a settler 

 on the Bass River, who was going to Cape Patter- 

 son, to shoot wild cattle, the produce of the stock 

 left behind when the old settlement was abandoned — 



* The next headland to Wilson's Promontory, from the ex- 

 treme of which it bears N. W. by W., twenty-four miles ; the 

 shore between recedes, forming a bay nine miles deep. The 

 Cape lies in lat. 38° 55' S., long. 5° 17' W. of Sydney, 145° 57' 

 E., and is the extreme of a table-land three hundred and fifty feet 

 high. A small islet lies close to the shore, about two miles 

 northward from the extreme, where there is a boat cove. Where 

 the rocky coast ceases to the eastward, the shore falls back, 

 affording shelter for vessels in north-west winds ; a rock lies off 

 the southern point of this anchorage. 



