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to science, which Anil elsewhere be alluded to, were 

 added to the collection. Doubtless fish are also 

 plentiful here, but we were prevented from hauling- 

 the seine by the remains of a wreck in the centre of 

 a flat of muddy sand at the head of the bay where 

 we were anchored ; the vessel, I have since heard, 

 had come in contact with a coral reef, and been run 

 on shore here, in order to save a portion of her 

 stores. 



Dec. 10th. — In company with the Asp we ran 

 up to the northward to Cape Upstart, a distance of 

 about ninety miles, and anchored in five fathoms off 

 the sandy beach inside the point. Two boats were 

 immediately sent to search for water, but we found 

 the pools where the Fly had watered, in 1844, 

 completely empty ; and it was not until the deep 

 rocky bed of the torrent had been traced upwards 

 of a mile hig-her up on the following morning, that 

 fresh water was met with ; but at too great a dis- 

 tance from the shore, to be available for our purposes. 

 Judging; fi-om the almost total want of water at all 

 the places hitherto visited on this coast since 

 entering- the tropics that there was little probability 

 of our finding- it at Goold Island, Captain Stanley 

 determined to proceed no further, but return at once 

 to Sydney, by way of Moreton Bay, and letters 

 were left for Lieutenant Yule signifying- this in- 

 tention. 



Dec. 15th. — Three days ago we sailed for Cape 



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