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or otherwise from the boat having passed across the stream; it is at 1S03 * 
° , August. 
least certain, that the southern part of the Barrier Reefs, seen by Saturday 27. 
captain Swain of the ship Eliza, was somewhere to the north-west 
of our situation at that time. To avoid all these reefs, and to coun- 
teract the effect of a north-western current, I kept a S. S. W. course 
all the following night. < 
We had fine weather next morning, with a moderate breeze at Sunday 28. 
north-east; and at noon, the distance run in the preceding twenty- 
four hours was ninety-one miles by the log, and the observed lati- 
tude 24 0 53' south: the lead was put over-board, but no bottom 
found at 50 fathoms. Our situation being to the south of Sandy 
Cape, we steered a point more west, in the hope of seeing the land 
before night; it being my intention to keep near the coast from 
thence to Port Jackson, that by landing, or running the boat on 
shore, we might escape fouhdering at sea should a gale of wind come 
on. At sunset, the land was visible to the westward at the distance 
of four or five leagues, and we then hauled up south, parallel to the 
coast; the night was fine, the wind light and fair, and at daylight Mondays^, 
the tops of the hills were seen in the west, at the same distance as 
before. Our latitude at noon was 2 6° 22', and a high hummock 
upon the land, somewhere between Double-island Point and Glass- 
house Bay, bore W. | N. 
Our favourable breeze died away in the afternoon, and we took 
to the oars ; it however sprung up again from the northward, and 
brought us within sight of Cape Moreton at sunset. Towards mid- (Atl.Pi.ix.) 
night the weather became squally with heavy rain, and gave us all 
a thorough drenching ; but the wind not being very strong in these 
squalls, our course was still pursued to the southward. After the 
rain ceased the wind came at S. S. W. ; and the weather remaining 
unsettled, we tacked at daylight to get close in with the land, and Tuesday so. 
at noon anchored under Point Look-out. This was only the fourth 
day of our departure from Wreck Reef, and I considered the voyage 
to be half accomplished, since we had got firm hold of the main 
