172 CAPTAIN EDWARDS. 



confiriried the existence of such a strait by passing" 

 from east to west bet\\xen the shores of Austraha 

 and New Guinea. 



The Boudeuse and EtoUe were engaged in work- 

 ing to windward along this new land (as it was 

 thought to be) until the 26th, when, having doubled 

 its eastern point, to which the sigrdficant name of 

 Cape DeUverance was given, they were enabled to 

 bear away to the N.N.E. The name of Gulph of 

 the Louisiade was bestowed by Bougainville upon 

 the whole of the space thus traversed by him, 

 extending' between Cape Dehverance and that por- 

 tion of (what has since been determined to be) the 

 coast of New Guinea of which he gives so glowing* a 

 description^ and calls the Cul de Sac de I'Orangerie 

 upon his chart. 



The next addition to our knowledg'e of these shores 

 was made in August, 1791, by Captain Edwards in 

 H.M.S. Pandora, shortly before the wreck of that 

 vessel in Torres Strait, when returning from Tahiti 

 with the mutineers of the Bounty. In the published 

 narrative of that voyage the following brief account 

 is given. " On the 23rd, saw land, which we sup- 

 posed to be the Louisiade, a cape bearing north-east 

 and by east. We called it Cape Eodney. Another 

 contiguous to it was called Cape Hood : and a moun- 

 tain between them, we named Mount Clarence. 

 After passing Cape Hood, the land appears lower, 

 and to trench away about north-west, forming" a 

 deep bay, and it may be doubted whether it joins 



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