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the pale of danger: and I now began to fear 1820 . 
that the leak had been occasioned more from the Oct. 13 . 
defect of her fastenings than from the accident 
that happened to her keel; so that we were in 
every respect as badly off as before the cutter 
was careened. This made me decide upon in- 
stantly returning to Port Jackson; but it was 
with great regret that I found it necessary to 
resolve so; for the land to the westward ap- 
peared so indented, as to render the necessity 
of our departure at this moment particularly 
vexatious. 
The next day, therefore, we passed out to n. 
sea, to the westward of Baudin’s Keraudren 
Island. 
The wind, upon leaving the coast, being 
W.S.W. and W.N.W., carried us as far to the 
north as 1 1° 43', before we met with southerly 
winds ; after which they gradually veered to the 
south-east trade. 
On the 30th, at midnight, we were upon the 
parallel of 19° 33', on which the Tryal rocks have 
been said to exist ; in order, therefore, to be on 
the safe side, we tacked to the northward for four 
hours, and then passed back again until daylight, 
when we resumed our course. At ten o’clock si. 
a.m. we were in the latitude assigned to these 
rocks by the brig Greyhound, the master of 
