COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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CHAPTER II. 
Examination of Rowley’s Sboals, and Passage to the North 
Coast.— Survey of Goulburn Islands, Mountnorris and Raffles 
B a y S . — Meet a Malay Fleet, and communicate with one of the 
p roas; — Explore Port Essington: — Attacked by Natives in 
Knocker's Bay: — Anchor in Popham Bay : — -Visit from the 
Malays: — Examination of Van Diemen’s Gulf, including Sir 
George Hope’s Islands and Alligator Rivers :— Survey of the 
Northern Shore of Melville Island, and Apsley Strait —Interview 
with the Natives of Luxmore Head :— Procure wood at Port 
Hurd: —Natives — Clarence Strait : — Leave the Coast, and 
arrival at Timor. 
The south-east wind, which set in on the morning 
that we left our anchorage off Depuch Island, 
continued to blow with thick misty weather, and 
made us conjecture that the westerly monsoon 
was nearly expended ; we, therefore, steered off 
the coast with the intention of proceeding to the 
eastward towards Cape Arnhem, after ascer- 
taining the position of a shoal that was seen 
by Captain Rowley, in H.M.S. Imperieuse, in 
1800 , and of two others that are described by 
Captain Horsburgh to be in its vicinity. They 
are situated according to the above authorities as 
follows, viz. : — 
Imperieuse Shoal (southend) lat. 17° 35h long. 118° 37- 
Shoal seen by the ship Good 
Hope (north end) . . . lat. 1 7° 47J- 7 . long. 119 18’. 
Shoal seen by Capt. Clerke, 
(north part) lat. 17° 28/ long. 119° 2- 
1818. 
March 6. 
