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isi 9. Snapper Island is high and covered with a 
June 24. thick impenetrable mass of underwood, but no 
fresh water was found. The ashes of a fire- 
place, strewed around with broken shells, was the 
only trace seen of natives. The beach, like that 
of Fitzroy Island, is composed of dead coral and 
is fronted by rocks. 
25 . We left this anchorage the next morning, with 
a fresh breeze of wind from south-east ; as we 
steered round Cape Tribulation, the sea ran so 
heavy that our boat, which was towed astern, 
filled and overset, and in a moment went to 
pieces. The wind had now increased to a 
gale, and the weather threatened so much that 
we were induced to take advantage of a bight to 
the northward of the Cape, in which we an- 
chored at three quarters of a mile from the mouth 
of a rivulet, the entrance of which was blocked 
up by a ridge of rocks on which the water 
rippled; we were here tolerably well sheltered 
by high land from the wind, and the water was 
quite smooth. 
26 . On the following day, the weather continued 
so unfavourable that we remained at the an- 
chorage, and Mr. Bedwell was sent to examine 
the opening, which was called Blomfield’s Rivulet. 
On his return, he reported the bar to be too 
shoal to admit an entrance to vessels of greater 
