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A VOYAGE TO 
[East Count. 
September S a ^ re< ^ sojTie fine oysters, and the wind dying away to a calm in 
Friday 2. the afternoon, rowed out for Smoky Cape ; but on reaching abreast 
of it the wind again rose a-head ; and at one in the morning we 
anchored in a small bight at the extremity of the Cape, and remained 
until daylight. 
Saturdays. The wind was still contrary on the 3rd, nevertheless we stood 
out and beat to the southward until four in the afternoon ; when the 
sea having become too high for the boat, we anchored under the lee 
of a small projecting point, eight or ten leagues to the south of 
Smoky Cape ; which distance had been gained in about ten hours, 
principally by means of the current. 
Sunday 4. On the 4th, we again attempted to beat to the southward; but 
the wind being light as well as foul, and the sea running high, not 
much was gained ; at noon the weather threatened so much, that it 
became necessary to look out for a place of shelter, and we steered 
into a bight with rocks in it, which I judge to have been on the north 
side of Tacking Point. At the head of the bight is a lagoon ; but 
the entrance proving to be very shallow, and finding no security, we 
continued on our voyage; trusting that some place of shelter would 
present itself, if obliged to seek it by necessity. Towards evening 
Monday 5. the wind and weather became more favourable; in the morning, the 
Three Brothers were in sight ; and at noon I observed the latitude 
31° 57 ' , when the middlemost of these hills bore N. N. W. and our 
distance off shore was two or three leagues. 
(Atlas, At this time the wind blew a moderate sea breeze at E. S. E., 
pi. viii ) Cape Hawke was seen soon afterward, and at eight in the evening 
we steered between Sugar-loaf Point and the two rocks lying from 
Tuesday 6 . it three or four miles to the south-east. At four next morning, 
passed the islands at the entrance of Port Stephens, and at noon the 
Coal Island in the mouth of Port Hunter bore N. W. by N. ; the 
wind then shifted more to the southward, with squally weather, and 
both prevented the boat from lying along the coast and made it 
unsafe to be at sea. After struggling till four in the afternoon, with 
