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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. late Admiral Bligh, in his account of the Bounty’s 
Juiy 24 . voyage, has described one that he saw and mea- 
sured at Sunday Island, the place we had just 
left; it was thirty-three feet long, and would 
hold twenty men ; but from his account it must 
have been of bark, for he says, “ the canoe was 
made of three pieces, the bottom entire, to which 
the sides were sewed in the common way The 
largest canoe that we have seen did not measure 
more than eighteen feet in length. 
After leaving this group, we experienced a 
considerable swell from the S.E., which would 
indicate this part of the coast to be less occupied 
by reefs than it is more to the southward ; parti- 
cularly between Cape Grenville and Cape Tri- 
bulation, where the outer or barrier reefs are 
nearer to the coast than in any other part. 
Our course was held outside of two groups of 
islets, one of which was called Hannibal’s, and 
the other M‘ Arthur’s Group. At eleven o’clock 
a larger islet was passed by ; at half past twelve 
o’clock, we were abreast of Captain Cook s 
“ Orfordness,” and of Captain Bligh s “ Pudding- 
Pan-Hill continuing our course parallel to the 
coast, we passed half a mile inside of Cairncross 
Island, which is about half a mile in length ; it 
has a reef extending for more than a mile off its 
* Bligh’ s Voyage to the South keas, p. 210. 
