274 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. to a distant point; the intervening coast being 
Sept? 3. 0 f moderate height, and thickly wooded to the 
brink of a range of dark red cliffs, two miles 
in length, rising immediately from the beach ; 
upon which eight natives and a child were ob- 
served watching our movements. Our course 
was held parallel with the shore, at about three 
miles distance. At sunset we tacked off for the 
night; and the south extreme, at dark, bore 
S.b.W.|W. 
The sea, hereabout, abounds with fish of va- 
rious sorts, upon which several sharks were feed- 
ing most rapaciously. From midnight to day- 
break, the weather was fine, with scarcely a 
breath of wind; afterwards a light land breeze 
set in; which, at noon, was succeeded by the 
usual sea breeze from the west. 
4. At noon the next day, our latitude was 13° 33 
41" S. At five o’clock we passed a point (Cape 
Dombey), off which there is a reef of rocks of cir- 
cular shape, and of small extent: to the south- 
ward of it the coast forms a bay, lined with man- 
groves, in which there is a small opening , but 
the breeze was then too fresh to allow of our 
venturing into it, to examine it more closely. At 
eight o’clock we anchored off a projecting point, 
which appeared to form the eastern head of a 
