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1823. signed to it on our first voyage was 114° T 47''; 
Jan. 29. the mean of the two, 114° 2' 2 ", may therefore be 
considered its true situation. 
From the above observation for the latitude 
of the North-West Cape agreeing nearly with 
those of our former voyage, I was induced to 
think that there might be some land more 
to the northward, that the French saw and 
took for the cape ; for they have placed it in 
21° 37' 1 '' S., which is nearly 10' too northerly. 
Captain Horsburgh, in the supplement to his 
Directory, notices some islands seen by the San 
Antonio in 1818, called Piddington’s Islands, that 
are said to lie in the latitude of 21° 36', but after 
steering seventeen miles to the N.E. from the 
above situation, without seeing any thing like 
land, there remained no doubt in my mind that 
the French must have been deceived, and that 
Piddington’s Islands are some of the low, sandy 
islets to the eastward of Muiron Island. 
30 . Having steered through the night on a north- 
east course, Barrow’s Island came in sight the 
next morning, when it was about five leagues 
off; at eight o’clock it bore between S. 27° E. 
and N. 87° E. From noon to three p.m. we had 
calm, dull, and cloudy weather; and, although 
the thermometer did not range higher than 87°, 
the heat was extremely oppressive, and occa- 
