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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1818 . before she was purchased by the government, 
in revenge for his having lost his employment. 
6 “ 13- On the 13th we completed every thing, and 
14. embarked our stock, and the next morning at day- 
light we left the bay, and, passing round the 
islands of Samow and Rottee, steered S.W.b.S. 
(which was as close to the wind as we could 
steer to make a direct course) across the sea, 
which might, with some degree of propriety, be 
called the Great Australian Strait; but this 
course was too westerly to admit of our reaching 
the coast so far to the westward as was wished. 
On the 19th we passed over a coral bank, with 
19. twenty-six fathoms, in latitude 19 30, and longi- 
tude 116° 15' 30". 
The thermometer now ranged no higher than 
76|°, and obliged us to resume our warmer 
clothing. 
At eight o’clock the next morning land was 
seen bearing S.W.b.W., and proved to be that 
laid down by Captain Baudin, to the southward 
of the Montebello Islands ; one of which, Tri- 
mouille Island, was also visible in the N.W. 
We bore up at noon, intending to pass round 
the south end of the land, seen in W.S.W. ; but 
after running about five miles further the land 
proved to be an island, and was called after John 
Barrow, esq., one of the Secretaries of the Admi- 
