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gale, without encountering any accident, or the isai. 
occurrence of any circumstance worth recording. Nov. 28. 
On the 23rd of December, at daylight, the Dec. 23. 
land about Cape Chatham was in sight, and a 
course was directed to the eastward for King 
George’s Sound; where it was my intention to 
complete our wood and water previous to com- 
mencing the examination of the west coast. At 
four o’clock in the afternoon we hauled round 
Bald Head, and entering the Sound, soon after- 
wards anchored at one mile from the entrance of 
Princess Royal Harbour. 
Having at our former visit re-fitted at Oyster 24. 
Harbour, I wished, on this occasion, to try Prin- 
cess Royal Harbour ; but as I was both unac- 
quainted with its entrance, as well as its con- 
venience for our purposes, excepting from Captain 
Flinders’s account, I hoisted the boat out early 
the next morning, to make the necessary exami- 
nation before the sea-breeze commenced. Whilst 
the boat was preparing, a distant shouting was 
heard, and upon our looking attentively towards 
the entrance, several Indians were seen sitting 
on the rocks on the north head hallooing and 
waiving to us, but no further notice than a re- 
turn of their call was taken until after break- 
fast, when we pulled towards them in the whale- 
boat. As we drew near the shore they came 
