A VOYAGE TO [South Coast. 
1802. ward, but were soon obliged to anchor from want of wind ; and I 
wednes%8. foun d * hat this slow mode of proceeding was not at all suited to the 
little time for which we had provisions remaining, besides that there 
was much probability of. getting frequently aground ; the plan of 
examining the port with the ship was therefore abandoned. 
Having left orders with Mr. Fowler, the first lieutenant, to 
Thurs. 29. take the ship back to the entrance, I went in a boat early next morn- 
ing with provisions for three days ; in order to explore as much of 
the port as could be done in that time. Round the east end of the 
middle shoals I carried 6 and 7 fathoms ; and keeping north-east- 
ward, had 8 and 9 fathoms at a mile or more from the shore, and 
4 close past the second rocky point above Arthur's Seat. The wind 
being at north-west, I was obliged to land behind some rocks more 
than two miles short of the third point, but walked to it with my 
surveying instruments. This was nine miles from the Seat, and the 
furthest part of the shore seen from thence; further on, the shore 
falls back more eastward, in long sandy beaches, and afterwards 
curves to the north-west; but it was lost to sight long before joining 
the land on the west side of the port. After taking angles and 
observing for the latitude and longitude, I rowed to windward for 
Indented Head, five leagues oft". At the end of the first mile and a 
half the depth was 11 fathoms, but afterwards no bottom at 12, until 
within two miles of the western shore, where it was 9 fathoms. 
We landed at nine o'clock at night, near the uppermost part which 
had yet been seen. 
Friday 3o, In the morning, a fire was perceived two-hundred yards from 
the tent; and the Indians appeared to have decamped from thence 
on our landing. Whilst I was taking angles from a low point at the 
north-easternmost part of Indented Head, a party of the inhabitants 
showed themselves about a mile from us ; and on landing there we 
found a hut with a fire in it, but the people had disappeared, and 
carried off their effects. I left some strips of cloth, of their favourite 
red colour, hanging about the hut ; and proceeded westward along 
