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twenty to l^tty pounds per ton ; and potatoes 



at tlie enormous jirico nf twenty-five ])ouink per 

 ton. It was expeettidj howi'ver, tlnit in the course 

 of another year the colony would be able to raise 



liad been lost ^iSmisi Biv^ mnm the first 

 year, and with cuniinon precautions it 'wa9- con- 

 sidered there was no risk. 



Ai^two p. we proceeded on our voyage to 

 Bat^vid. On i}m of we kad tlie south- 

 east trade, in kt. 21^ W^^tflm^ ISS'^ 13', east. 

 On tlie 4th of May we crossed from 108" 13' to 

 106" 58' east longitude^ (In a run uf eii>lit days 

 from Swan Riverj being the track rcconiuiendcd 

 by Horsburg, to look ibr the **'ftW Bo^M/* 

 but did not see them** On the 5ih> several 



* The Tri^ Hockf are tbus mentlonal in the ''Lives and 

 Vojs^df Bralre, CaveAdMtj attd Bampicr/' pubHsh^d in 

 the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, page 448. 



"Dampier intended once more to attempt New Holland ili- 

 abottt 200. Hteye he found soundings at forty tktlioins, but 

 did not seethe land; and steered H'C!>tw:ird, to searcli for tlie 

 Trial Xiockg> (so named ironi an English ship called the 

 Trial having been wrecked upon them many years before,) 

 wHfeli were itipposed to lie ill this parallel, and about eighty 

 Ie:i!j:ui.'s uestward ol' the coast, lint Captain Dmnpicr was 

 sick, and unable to maintain peipctual w atch himself, aud the 



offi(!ferft ta^iettiaAii) M that 0m hipcitmit pohi 



