:V iii • INTRODUCTION, [Prior Discoveries. 
Edwards. They heard here the howling of wolves, (probably of wild dogs,) 
l791, and " discovered a moral, or rather heap of bones. There were 
" amongst them two human skulls, the bones of some large animals, 
" and some turtle bones. They were heaped together in the form 
« of a grave ; and a long paddle, supported at each end by a bifur- 
« C ated branch of a tree, was laid horizontally along it. Near to 
" this, there were marks of a fire having been recently made ; and 
" the ground about was much footed and worn."* 
A few small oysters, a harsh austere fruit, resembling a plum, 
and a small berry of a similar taste to the plum, were all that could 
be found for food. 
" There is a large sound formed here, to which/' says Mr. Hamil- 
ton, " we gave the name of Sandwich's Sound; and commodious 
" anchorage for shipping in the bay, to which we gave the name of 
« Wolf's Bay, in which there is from five to seven fathoms all 
" round. Near the centre of the sound is a small, dark-coloured, 
" rocky island." 
Sept. 2. In the afternoon, captain Edwards passed out to the 
northward, with his little squadron, from amongst the Prince of 
Wales' Islands; and the same evening, by steering westward, 
cleared all the islands and reefs of Torres' Strait : on the 14th he 
reached Timor. 
The track and discoveries of the Pandora, in Plate XIII. are taken 
from a chart published in 1798, by Mr. Dalrymple, upon the 
authority of one constructed by lieutenant Hay ward ; but it does 
not contain the track of the boats after the loss of the Pandora. 
This chart, and the account given by Mr. Hamilton, which, though 
more than sufficiently explicit upon some points, is very defective in 
what concerns navigation and geography ; are all that appears to 
have been published of this voyage. 
* See « A Voyage round the World in H. M. frigate Pandora," by George 
Hamilton, Surgeon ; page 123, et seq. 
