CHAPTER VI. 



LEATE COEAL HAYEN — BEIEELT ISIATTD — COMMOTTrCATION 

 ■WITH THE NATITES — DESCEIBTION OE THEIE HtJTS — BAE- 

 TEBKra EOE TAMS AND COCOA-NTJTS — SUSPICIOFS CONDrCT 

 OE THE NATITES — THET ATTACK THE SrETEYING BOATS — 

 CALTABOS GEOTTP — EUETHEE COMMTJKICATION WITH THE 

 IKHABITANTS — STAY AT BtJOHATEAU ISLANDS — THEIE 

 PEODUCTIONB — BE0CEEDING8 THESE— DrPEEE^ ISLANDS — 

 UNABLE TO EIND ANCHOEAGE — PASS OFT TO SEA AND 

 PEOCBED TO THE WESTWAED— WESTEEN TEBMINATION OE 

 THE LOnSIADE AECHIPELAGO— EEAOH THE COAST OP NEW 

 GUINEA. 



July Snf?.— The Bramble having- returned from 

 an exploration to the westward with the report that 

 there was a passage out of Coral Haven in that 

 direction, the ship left her anchorage oiF the 

 watering place this mornings with boats ahead and 

 on each side of her, repeating the soundings by 

 signal J she ran along the land to the westward 

 seven or eight miles, passed between Pig and South- 

 east Islands, rounded the north-west end of the 

 latter, stood between it and Joannet Island to the 

 W.S.W. for about five miles, and anchored early in 

 the forenoon in 15 fathoms, water, under a smaU 

 detached reef and dry sand-bank. Several very fine 

 red snappers were caught with hook and line soon 



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