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was dark when we passed near the position as- I822. 
signed to the Recif Naturaliste after steering Jan. 10. 
on for three hours longer, we edged in for the 
land ; and at ten o'clock hauled to the wind for 
the night. The next day at noon we were in 11. 
latitude 32 ° S& 2 ", having the land about Cape 
Peron in sight from the mast-head, bearing 
E.b.S.|S. ; but during the day the wind was 
so light, that we had not approached it Within 
four leagues by sunset. 
At this time the coast was visible as far as 
Cape Bouvard, between which and Cape Peron 
it is low and sandy, but the hills appeared to 
be tolerably well wooded, and of a moderate 
height. Buache Island was visible as well as 
the small rocky islet between it and Cape Peron. 
The former is low and sandy, and its outline 
of hummocky shape ; and to the eastward was 
some distant land, trending towards the assigned 
entrance of Swan River. To the northward 
of Buache Island a small lump was seen on 
the horizon, which perhaps might have been 
Berthollet Island, but it was very indistinct. 
The sun set in a dense bank, and the moment 
it disappeared a very copious dew began to fall. 
The next morning at day-light the land to the 12. 
southward of Cape Peron was ten miles off, but 
at half-past nine o’clock we were between Capes 
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