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noticed by Mr. Roe in an E.b.S. direction from I 822 . 
the mast-head at twenty minutes before one Jan. 26. 
o’clock, but, if the position assigned to it by the 
French is correct, we had passed it long before 
that time. At six o’clock Kok’s Island, the small 
rocky islet that lies off the north end of Bernier’s 
Island, bore N. 83° E., distant seven miles. 
The following morning at daylight the land 27 . 
was seen in the N.E., and at half-past eight 
o’clock we resumed our course, and passed Cape 
Cuvier, a reddish-coloured rocky bluff that pre- 
sents a precipitous face to the sea. The coast 
thence takes a N.b.E. direction; it is low and 
sandy, and fronted by a sandy beach, occasi- 
onally interrupted by projecting rocky points ; 
those parts where patches of bare sand were no- 
ticed, are marked upon the chart. 
At one o’clock we were near a low sandy pro- 
jection, round which the coast extends to the 
E.N.E., and forms a shallow bay. This projec- 
tion was called after Sir Robert Townsend Far- 
quhar, Bart., the late Governor of the Mauritius. 
Farther on, in latitude 23° 10' 30'', is a pro- 
jection which, at Mr. Cunningham’s request, 
was called after Mr. William Anderson, of the 
Apothecaries’ garden at Chelsea. The coast to 
the northward of Point Anderson is higher than 
to the southward, and falls back to the N.E., 
