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MAGALHAENS' W. ENTRANCE. Feb. 1827. 



Narborough, 'Westminster Hall' The coast about our unsafe 

 anchorage was as barren and dismal-looking as any part of this 

 country, which, as the old navigator above-mentioned said, is 

 ' so desolate land to behold.' 



" Next day (March 1st) we ran down to Cape Upright, and 

 there remained until the 3d, collecting the required data for 

 our survey. 



While standing towards the bay called Playa Parda (on 

 the 3d), a boat under sail was seen making towards us from the 

 southern coast. I fired several guns, to show our position, 

 before we became shut in by the land, and soon after anchor- 

 ing a whale-boat came alongside, with the second mate and five 

 men belonging to the sealing-vessel Prince of Saxe Cobourg. 

 " Anxious not to lose a moment in hastening to the relief 



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of our shipwrecked countrymen, I ran down next day to Port 

 Gallant, and thence proceeded with two ten-oared boats (on 

 the 5th) through the Barbara Channel, and the following 

 evening reached Fury Harbour."" 



Having already given a short account of the Saxe Cobourg's 

 loss, and the rescue of her crew by Captain Stokes, I will not 

 repeat the story by extracting more from his journal. 



Mr. Graves returned from his cruize in the Hope on the 

 17th, after suffering much from stormy weather and incessant 

 rain ; but having made a survey of the openings in the land to 

 the west of Magdalen Channel as far as the Sugar Loaf Point, 

 at the west head of Lyell Sound, which he found to be deep 

 inlets, affording no anchorages of value to navigation. 



The time having arrived for our return to Monte Video, 

 preparations were made for sailing, and in the mean time I went 

 to the northward, in the Hope, to survey the coast between 

 Port Famine and Elizabeth Island, including Shoal Haven. 



At the bottom of Shoal Haven we were stopped by the 

 water shoaling to five feet, so that we were obliged to haul out 

 till we could anchor in more than two fathoms. During the 

 night the wind shifted to N.E., and blew right in, obliging us 

 to weigh, and work under the S.W. end of Elizabeth Island 

 into a bay close to that shore. From the summit of the S.AV. 



