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a larger island than is usual hereabout, which, as 
it will always be a stopping place for vessels 
bound up the coast, was named Night Island. 
At nine o’clock the following morning, after 
a rainy disagreeable night, we proceeded, and 
steered parallel with the shore. At half past 
eleven o’clock we were abreast and in-shore of 
Sherrard’s Islets. Steering onwards we passed 
within a low sandy island covered with bushes, 
and to seaward of a bare rock which lies a mile 
and a half south of Cape Direction ; round this 
projection the land trends to the westward, and 
forms a deep bay with Cape Weymouth, which 
Lieutenant Jeffreys has named Lloyd’s Bay. 
Upon rounding Cape W eymouth, the land was 
observed to trend deeply in to the westward ; and, 
as the bay appeared to offer shelter, I was tempted 
to haul round Bligh’s Restoration Island for the 
purpose of anchoring ; but in this we were pre- 
vented by the rocky quality of the bottom. On 
our way to Forbes’ Islands, which I wished to 
visit, our course was intercepted by the reef, 
which extended in a N.W. and S.E. direction; 
we steered along its western side, at a quarter of 
a mile from it, until five o’clock, when we hauled 
round its north end, and again steered for Forbes’ 
Islands ; but at sunset, being again impeded by 
a shoal that crossed our course, we anchored 
1819. 
July 18. 
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