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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPIC AL 
1819 . was named the Admiralty Gulf, we have.given 
OctTis. positions to at least forty islands or islets. 
Having now emerged from the archipelago 
of islands which front this part of the north-west 
coast, we seized the opportunity of taking leave 
of it for the present, and directed our course for 
Timor. At 4h. 19' p.m., when the centre of 
Cassini Island bore S. 4° 30' W., distance 6' 8" 
by survey, sights for the chronometers made the 
centre of the island in 125° 41' 22", which is 
2! 32" to the eastward of the longitude assigned 
to its centre in M. de Freycinet’s chart. 
2 0. On the 20th, in the evening, after a succes- 
sion of damp weather, with squalls of thunder, 
lightning, and rain, and variable baffling winds, 
a fresh breeze set in from E.S.E. At six o’clock 
2 1. the next morning, it settled in the S.E. with 
heavy rain, thunder, and lightning, and after- 
wards the weather cleared up. As soon as day 
dawned, sail was made to the N.W., and be- 
fore noon we hauled up N.N.W. to allow for 
a westerly current ; at two p.m. the weather 
clouded in, and was followed by squalls of wind 
and rain from the N.E, which, after passing over 
us, returned again from the westward with more 
rain but less wind. 
22 . At daylight (22d), we saw the Island of Eottee, 
but instead of being, according to our account. 
