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A VOYAGE TO 
[East Coast 
' CHAPTER III, 
Passage in the Cumberland to Torres’ Strait. Eastern Fields and Pan- 
dora’s Entrance. New channels amongst the reefs. Anchorage at 
Half-way Island , and under the York Isles. Prince of Wales’ Islands 
further examined. Booby Isle. Passage across the Gulph of Car- 
pentaria. Anchorage at Wessel’s Islands. Passage to Coepang Bay, 
in Timor ; and to Mauritius, zvhere the leakiness of the Cumberland 
makes it necessary to stop. Anchorage at the Baye du Cap, and depar- 
ture for Port Louis. 
isos. On parting from the Rolia, at noon Oct. n, off Bird Islet, our 
October . 
Tuesday li. course was steered N. N. W. by compass for Torres' Strait. At, 
Plate L) in the evening we had run thirteen leagues from Wreck Reef, 
without seeing any danger ; but I thought it advisable to lie to in 
the night, until the distance was further increased. We made sail 
Wednes. is. again at five in the morning, and at noon were in 20° 46' south and 
155 0 2' east. During the two following days and nights, our course 
by compass was N. W. by N., and afterwards N. W. ; and on the 
Saturday 15 - 15th at noon we had reached the latitude 15 0 2c/ and longitude 
ipi° 24', the current having set, upon the average of four days, £ of 
a mile an hour to the W. N. W. This situation was a little to the 
north, and about one degree to the east of Bougainville’s Bank of 
Diana, and the tropic birds, petrels, and boobies seen every day were 
this evening more numerous, especially the boobies; they most pro- 
bably belonged to Diana’s Bank, but lest some other might lie in our 
way, we hauled to the wind at eight o’clock. The little Cumberland 
was still very leaky at such times as the wind came more on the side 
and caused her to lie over; and the pumps were so bad that a fourth 
