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At this anchorage we perceived very little rise issi. 
and fall of tide, and the flood and ebb both set Au^. 20 . 
to the northward ; this was also the case at our 
anchorage within the Lacepede Islands. At four 
o’clock the next morning a strong south-easterly 
breeze sprang up, and moderated again before 
we weighed ; but no sooner were we under sail 
than it freshened again, and, at half-past five 
o’clock, blew so strong as to oblige our double 
reefing the topsails, which had not been done for 
many weeks before. At noon the wind fell, and 
was very calm, at which time our latitude ob- 
served was 17° 36' 38". The highest part of 
the land bore N. 70|° E., south of which a 
sandy point, supposed to be Captain Baudin’s 
Cape Boileau, bore S. 87° E. ; and a smoke, 
a little to the northward of the mast-head ex- 
treme, bearing S. 42° E. must be upon the land 
in the neighbourhood of Cape Latreille. 
Soon after noon the breeze veered round by 
South to W.S.W., and enabled us to make some 
progress ; at sunset we again anchored in thir- 
teen fathoms, soft sand, at six miles from a 
sandy projection of the main, which we after- 
wards found to be the land called by Captain 
Baudin, Gantheaume Island; the name has there- 
fore been given to the point, for there was no 
appearance of its being insulated. It bears a 
