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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1821 . Buccaneering voyage in the Cygnet, in 1688 . 
Aug-. 20. He says — We fell in with the land of New 
Holland in 16 ° 50 ', w^e ran in close by it, and 
finding no convenient anchoring, because it lies 
open to the N.W., we ran along shore to the 
eastward, steering N.E.b.K, for so the land lies. 
We steered thus about twelve leagues, and then 
^ame to a point of land, from whence the land 
trends east and southerly for ten or twelve 
leagues ; but how, afterwards, I know not. About 
three leagues to the eastward of this point there 
IS a pretty deep bay with abundance of islands 
m it, and a very good place to anchor in or to 
hale ashore. About a league to the eastward of 
that point we anchored in twenty-nine fathom, 
good hard sand and clean ground.” He then 
proceeds to say — “ This part of it (the coast) 
that we saw is all low, even land, with sandy 
banks against the sea, only the points are rocky, 
and so are some of the islands in the bay^.” 
From this description I have little hesitation 
in settling Cape Leveque to be the point he 
passed round. In commemoration, therefore, of 
his visit, the name of Buccaneer’s Archipelago 
was given to the cluster of isles that fronts 
Cygnet Bay, which was so called after the name 
of the ship in which he sailed. The point 
Dampier, voI. i. p. 462. 
