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answered no end, we steered across Mermaid’s 
Strait, and by sunset were abreast of Cape March2 * 
Bruguieres, so named by Captain Baudin, round 
which the land trended to E. by S., forming the 
south side of a shoal strait, separating Gidley 
Island from Captain Baudin’s Legendre Island: 
the latter is a narrow, long, rocky island, lying 
E.S.E. and W.N.W., and is of a lower character 
than the islands to the southward of it. We 
anchored under the N.W. end of this island, but 
the ground was so uneven and rocky, that we 
considered ourselves fortunate in recovering the 
anchor the next morning without breaking it ; 3 - 
for during the night the anchor dragged and 
hooked a rock ; on weighing it, however, the 
rock proved to be rotten and broke away. The 
strait between Legendre and Gidley Islands is 
full of shoals, which at daylight being dry, were 
covered with immense flights of pelicans and 
other water-fowl. 
During the day and following night we were 
becalmed off the north side of Legendre Island ; 
the next day we passed round its S.E. end, and, 4 
at sunset, anchored in a deep bay. Off the S.E. 
end of Legendre Island the sea is very full of 
reefs and dry rocks, but between Haiiy and 
Delambre Islands there is a safe channel of nine 
and ten fathoms deep. 
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