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that she made two inches and a half of water is2o. 
per hour. • Au^Ti4. 
At noon the next day we rounded Cape York; 15 . 
and, as we had last year taken the route to the 
northward of Wednesday Island, we now steered 
round the south side of Prince of Wales’ Islands 
through Endeavour Strait ; and, passing the night 
under one of the Possession Islands, No. 2, the 
next day reached Booby Island, off which we 1 6 . 
anchored. On our course to the westward of 
Cape Cornwall, and across the line of shoals 
that extend from it to Wallis Isles, we had not 
less water than four fathoms. 
In the afternoon we landed on Booby Island, 
and at night procured turtles, and about a thou- 
sand eggs. 
On the summit of the island, or rather the 
rock, several piles of stones were observed, that 
had been heaped up by the crews of the various 
ships passing by, as relics of their visit : among 
other notices of a similar nature, we found a 
board indicating the safe passage through the 
strait of the ship Sea-Flower, which our log-book 
informed us left Port Jackson on the 21st of last 
May ; and from the memorandum on the board 
we found that she took the outer passage, en- 
tered Torres Strait at Murray’s Island, and ar- 
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