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mages repaired, we resumed our voyage under I820 
more favourable omens, — for we sailed with a June 24. 
fair wind and fine weather. 
On the 17 th July, we were off Moreton Bay, j u iy 17. 
and, in the afternoon, communicated with a 
whaler which heaved in sight off the Cape 
(Moreton). My object was to learn whether she 
had heard any tidings of a boat belonging to the 
Echo whaler, which ship had been lately wrecked 
on the Cato’s bank : one of her boats, with part 
of her crew, arrived at Sydney a few days be- 
fore we sailed ; but another boat, in which the 
master and the remainder of her people em- 
barked, had not been heard of; and I enter- 
tained hopes that this vessel had picked them 
up, but, on the master’s coming on board, I 
found that he was quite ignorant of her loss. 
It so happened that both ships belonged to 
the same owner, Messrs. Bennetts, of London; 
and we had the satisfaction of afterwards hear- 
ing that the information we had thus afforded 
proved useful ; for the vessel subsequently suc- 
ceeded in finding the boat, and preserving the 
lives of the crew. After giving our visiter some 
information respecting the coast and the reef off 
Cape Moreton, which he claimed as his disco- 
very, but which, much to his surprise, we shewed 
him already laid down on Captain Flinders's 
