COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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CHAPTER II. 
Passage from Cape Van Diemen to Careening Bay Not finding 
water, visit Prince Regent’s River, and procure it from the Cas- 
cade: — Farther examination of the river: — Amphibious mud- 
fish: — Anchor in Half-way Bay, and explore Munster Water 
and Hanover Bay in a boat : — Visit Hanover Bay, and procure 
water and fish : — Interview with natives : — The surgeon speared : 
— Retaliate upon them, and capture their rafts and weapons: — 
Description of their implements: — Port George the Fourth: — 
Islands to the westward: — Red Island of Captain Heywood: — 
Strong tides: — Camden Bay: — Buccaneer’s Archipelago: — Cyg- 
net Bay :— Dangerous situation of the brig : — High and rapid 
tides: — Cape Leveque: — Examination of the coast to Cape La- 
touche Treville: — Remarkable effect of mirage: — Leave the 
coast for Mauritius:— Voyage thither: — Arrival at Port Louis:— 
Refit : — Some account of the island. 
Our course was held to the south-west towards igsi. 
Cape Londonderry ; on which, with a fresh S.E. 
wind, we proceeded with rapidity. 
On the morning of the 12th, Eclipse Hill and 
Sir Graham Moore’s Islands were seen, and in 
the afternoon we passed Troughton Island; at 
sunset, Point Hillock bore South thirteen miles^ 
whence we steered to the W.N.W. and N.W., 
and rounded the north end of the long reef, 
to the westward of Cape Bougainville. 
