232 Thirty Years 
August 16.—Some rain fell in the night, but the 
morning was unusually fine. We set forward at five 
A. M., and the men paddled cheerfully along the coast 
for ten miles, when a dense fog caused us to land on 
Slate-clay Point. Here we found more traces of the 
Esquimaux, and the skull of a man placed between 
two rocks, The fog dispersed at noon, and we dis- 
cerned a group of islands to the northward, which I 
have named after Vice-Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 
one of the Lords of the Admiralty. Re-embarking, 
we rounded the point and entered Walker’s Bay, where, 
as in other instances, the low beach which lay between 
several high trap cliffs, could not be distinguished un- 
til we had coasted down the east side nearly. to the 
bottom of the bay. When the continuity of the land 
was perceived, we crossed to the western shore, and 
on landing, discovered a channel leading through a 
group of islands. Having passed through this chan- 
nel, we ran under sail by the Porden Islands, across 
Riley’s Bay, and rounding a cape which now bears the 
name of my lamented friend Captain Flinders, had the 
pleasure to find the coast trending north-north-east, 
with the sea in the offing unusually clear of islands ; 
a circumstance which afforded matter of wonder to our 
Canadians, who had not previously had an uninter- 
rupted view of the ocean. 
Our course was continued along the coast until 
