110 A VOYAGE TO [South Coast. 
FebSy. At half P ast one we left PetreI Bay; and having passed 
Thurs. 4.' between the small isles to the north-east, steered for Evans' Island, 
and toward the Isles of St. Peter, which were expected to lie beyond 
it. At five o'clock, we passed between Evans' Island and some 
rocks above water, with breakers round them, lying three miles to 
the eastward. An island, equally high with that of St. Francis, was 
then seen to the north, and low land extended from it to N. 45° E., 
which had some appearance of being part of the main. We steered 
for these lands ; and seeing an opening between them at sunset, I 
attempted it in the hope of getting anchorage for the night ; but the 
water shoaled suddenly, from 4 fathoms to sixteen feet upon rocks, 
and obliged me to veer on the instant. We then stood back to the 
southward, till eight o'clock, and nothing being perceived in the 
way of the ship's drift, hove to for the night. 
Friday 5. xhe wind was north-east in the morning ; and at half past 
four o'clock we filled the sails and steered eastward until eight, 
when the central island of St. Francis bore N. 71 0 W., and Franklin's 
Isles, for there are two, besides rocks, were distant four leagues, the 
small opening between them bearing N. 28 0 W. To the south-east- 
ward of these islands, at the distance of eleven miles, is a low pro- 
jection of the main land, to which the name of Point Brown was 
given, in compliment to the naturalist ; and four leagues further, in 
the same line, was a cliffy head, called Cape Bauer after the painter 
of natural history. Between these projections there was a wide 
space where no land was visible, and for which we accordingly 
steered on the wind veering more to the northward. The atmos- 
phere was still hazy, more especially about the horizon, and no 
observations worthy of confidence could be taken for either latitude 
or longitude. At noon, 
Franklin's Isles bore - N. 48^° to 56 W. 
Point Brown, distant four miles, - N. 34 W. 
Cape Bauer, south extremity, dist. 3 leagues, S. 50 E. 
No land was yet visible a-head ; and there being much refuse from 
