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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Section 
VIJI. 
Inner 
Route. 
After passing the latter, avoid a low dangerous rock, that 
bears from it N. 8° E. five miles and three-quarters, and 
from 1st Peak S. 85° W. To avoid this in the night, pass 
close round No. 3, when, its situation being known, you can 
easily avoid it. 
The channel is safe on either side of the Percy Isles, 
but that to the westward of them, being better known, is 
therefore recommended as the safest. Then steer either over 
the Mermaid’s or Bathurst’s tracks, which will carry a ship 
round the projections of the coast as far as Cape Grafton, 
as far as which, if the weather is fine, there can be no danger 
of proceeding through the night; but it must be recollected, 
that at Cape Grafton the coral reefs approach the coast, 
and, consequently, great care must be used. 
On reaching Fitzroy Island, round it at a mile off shore, 
and, when its north end bears West, steer N.W.|N. for 
thirty-five miles ; you will then be a league to the S.E. of a 
group of low isles; if it should be night when you pass 
them, come no nearer to them than fourteen fathoms. In 
steering this course, great care should be taken, not to go 
too much to the eastward to avoid the reef which the Tamar 
saw. (See Appendix, Note, p. 277.) 
If the moon is up the islets will be readily distinguished, 
but otherwise it would be more prudent to wait for daylight. 
This course will carry a ship over two of my tracks, and 
the soundings will be in seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen fa- 
thoms. From the low isles direct your course for the Hope 
Islands, which bear from the former N. 18° W. thirty-eight 
miles, but the course had better be within that line, to avoid 
some reefs in latitude 15° 5V : pass, therefore, within five 
miles of Cape Tribulation, when a direct course may be 
steered either to the eastward or westward of the Hope 
Isles. The better route will be within the western Hope, 
and along its reef at the distance of three-quarters of a 
