COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
375 
70° and 80°, Fahr., and the heat was by no 1820 . 
means oppressive. Aug. 2 . 
Having sufficiently attained our object in vi- 
siting this place, and having also taken the 
opportunity of completing our wood and water 
and repairing our boat, we prepared to sail ; and 
on the 5th, at seven o’clock in the morning, 5 . 
weighed anchor and made for the bar ; but the 
wind was so baffling and unsteady, that we had 
great difficulty in passing over it. 
Our course was then directed round Cape Bed- 
ford towards Lizard Island. On our way we 
noticed several shoals. Off the south-west end 
of the island we saw a great many whales : soon 
after three o’clock we anchored in a sandy bay, 
on its south-west side. The wind, during the 
night and the following day, blew so fresh as 6 . 
to prevent our proceeding ; the delay was there- 
fore taken advantage of by our gentlemen to land 
and examine the island. It may be recollected, 
that it was from the summit of Lizard Island that 
Captain Cook discovered the openings in the 
reefs, through which he passed and got to sea ; 
little thinking that, by so doing, he was incurring 
a greater risk than by remaining within the reefs 
and steering along the coast. Some of our 
people walked round the island, where they 
found a whaler’s ton butt cast upon the beach : 
