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SURVEY OP THE INTERTROPICAL 
1821. ourselves better acquainted with the place. It 
Aug. 20. is remarkable that as soon as we passed round 
the Champagny Isles, hazy weather commenced, 
and continued without intermission until we 
were to the westward of Cape Lev^que. The 
French complain of the same thing; and they 
were so deceived by it that, in their first voyage, 
they laid down Adele Island as a part of the 
main, when it is only a sandy island about 
two or three miles long. No natives were seen 
on any of the islands, but there were many 
large smokes on the horizon at the back of 
Cygnet Bay. 
We were now beginning to feel the effects 
of this fatiguing duty. One-fourth of the people 
who kept watch were ill with bilious or feverish 
attacks, and we had never been altogether free 
from sickness since our arrival upon the coast. 
Mr. Montgomery’s wound was, however, happily 
quite healed, and Mr. Roe had also returned to his 
duty ; but Mr. Cunningham, who had been con- 
fined to the vessel since the day we arrived in 
Careening Bay, was still upon the sick list. 
Our passage up the east coast, the fatigues of 
watering and wooding at Prince Regent’s River, 
and our constant harassing employment during 
the examination of the coast between Hanover 
