PASSAGES. 



this archipelago and the coast of South America, between the same 

 parallels. The currents during our passage were from the south, but 

 trifling; and we found the sea remarkably smooth and the winds 

 variable. 



Rose Island, the easternmost of the Samoan Group, may be run for 

 in the daytime : its rounded clump of trees can be perceived at a long 

 distance. Its longitude is well established. It is better to pass to the 

 southward of it and Manua ; by doing so, you will keep to windward 

 and preserve the breeze; and if bound to Tutuila, can enter Pago Pago 

 Harbor; if to Apia or Upolu, pursue the same course, and then pass 

 between Tutuila and Upolu. 



FROM THE SAMOAN ISLANDS TO SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Between the 10th and the 29th of November, 1839. 



This passage was made in the month of November, and occupied 

 19 days. Upon leaving the Samoan Islands, we steered for Uea or 

 Wallis Island, which consists of several islands enclosed in the same 

 reef : it is moderately high and can be seen at the distance of 10 miles. 

 The entrance to the lagoon is on the south side, where communication 

 and supplies may be had. (See Uea or Wallis Island, in this volume.) 

 From thence we passed to the west of Hoorn Island, which we sighted ; 

 thence steering southwest-by-south, passed 150 miles to the westward 

 of the Feejee Group, and approached close to Mathew's Rock. We 

 were favored with fair winds nearly the whole distance to Lord Howe's 

 Isles, mostly from the eastward and southeast. The winds generally 

 increased towards evening, and the trades were not lost until to the 

 southward of the parallel of 25° south ; then the wind came from the 

 northward and westward, after a short gale and severe lightning and 

 thunder, and with a heavy swell from the southwest; it gradually 

 hauled to southwest, and then to the southeast. The currents were 

 generally from the eastward, until we had passed the Feejee Group, 

 when they came from the southward, but were of little strength. 



In approaching the coast of New Holland, care should be taken 

 not to make a land fall to the southward of the port, as some delay 

 may be experienced at this season of the year (November) in entering 

 the port of Sydney, from the southerly current, which resembles a 



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