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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1820. reefs were seen to seaward that we had not 
Aug-. 11. noticed last year. In passing the cape, we kept 
nearer to the sandy islet 7 than before, and had 
not less water than seven fathoms. 
The next morning, having passed the night 
under Night Island, we resumed our course, and 
steered round Cape Direction, with the intention 
of passing to windward of the long reef, f; but, 
being prevented by its extending too much to the 
eastward to allow of our weathering it, we bore 
up, and, passing to the eastward of Piper’s 
Islands, and of reef, 1, anchored under Haggers- 
ton’s Island. 
As I did not intend running farther than Sun- 
day Island for my next anchorage, we did not 
13. weigh the following day until we had visited the 
island, and obtained a meridional altitude for its 
latitude and sights for the time-keeper. It is 
about a mile and a half in circumference, and 
forms a high rock of steep ascent; its wind- 
ward side is clothed with a stunted brush, but 
the lee, or north-west, side is tolerably well 
wooded, and is fronted by a sandy beach, on 
which the traces of natives’ fire-places, scattered 
with fish-bones and turtle shells, were found in 
all directions. A considerable coral-reef extends 
to the northward, having some dry sandy keys 
at its north extremity. An extensive view of 
