VOYAGES FOR THE SURVEY 
OP THE 
INTERTROPICAL COASTS 
OP 
AUSTRALIA. 
CHAPTER I. 
Intended mode of proceeding', and departure from Port Jackson : 
— Visit Twofold Bay -Natives seen : — Passage through Bass’ 
Strait and along the South Coast to King George the Third’s 
Sound: — Transactions there: — Voyage to the North-West 
Cape, and Survey of the Coast between the North-West Cape 
and Depuch Island, including the examinations of Exmouth 
Gulf, Curlew River, and Dampier’s Archipelago: — Loss of 
Anchors, and Interview with the Natives : — Remarks upon 
Dampier’s account of Rosemary Island, and of the Island upon 
which he landed. 
AT the time that the Mermaid was ready to com- isi 7. 
mence her voyage, it was the season when the Dec. 21: 
westerly monsoon blows over that part of the sea 
which separates the islands of Timor and New 
Guinea from Australia ; it was therefore neces- 
sary, in order to benefit by the direction of the 
wind, to commence the survey of the coast at its 
western extremity, the North-West Cape : but, to 
do this, the passage was to be made, by taking 
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