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our voyage, and steered for Cape Sandwich, after 1819 . 
passing inside the Palm Island Group, We were June 19. 
now approaching Point Hillock, which is a point of 
land projecting for two miles into the sea, with a 
small hillock at its extremity ; from which Captain 
Cook named it; the land rises precipitously 
behind it to the height of about two thousand feet, 
and forms a mass of bare rocky hills of a singularly 
grand and imposing appearance. It rises nearly 
perpendicularly from the lower wooded hills at its 
base, and is as abrupt on its land side as on that 
which faces the sea. The summit extends from 
north to south for seven miles and forms a narrow 
craggy ridge, on which are several remarkable 
peaks. It was called Mount Hinchinbrook, and 
is visible from the deck for eighteen leagues. 
An opening was observed to trend round the 
rear of the Mount, and probably separates it 
from the main land. We passed half a mile 
outside the low rock off Cape Sandwich, within 
a group of low rocky isles (Brooke’s Islands), and 
then steered towards a peaked hill, which was 
soon afterwards found to be on the island laid 
down by Captain Cook in Rockingham Bay, it 
now received the name of Goold Island. We 
then entered Rockingham Bay and anchored at 
two miles off Goold Island. 
On passing Cape Sandwich in the afternoon 
