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riority of Byron Bay, they never would have completed their water 
and provisions at Karakakoa ; still, as it has been before observed, 
the latter is the better place for painting a ship in. 
This part of the coast extending in a north and south direction, 
the bay is discoverable by its latitude 19° 28' N., as well as by the im¬ 
mensely high cliff by which it is formed : there is nothing like it in the 
vicinity. There are no dangers to be avoided : the best anchorage is 
nearly in the centre of the bay, in twenty-six fathoms, muddy bottom. 
The Island of Mowee, pronounced and written by the natives 
Maui, forms two very high peninsulas, joined by a narrow low sandy 
isthmus. There is no anchorage whatever on the north side the Island, 
and none that can be deemed safe on the south. His Majesty’s ship 
Blonde anchored for twenty-four hours under the south-west point, at 
a place called Lahaina, but within a quarter of a mile of the breakers, 
in twelve fathoms, and entirely exposed to the south-west, which is the 
sea breeze quarter, in the summer season ; whilst in the-winter, south¬ 
west gales, though rare, have been known to blow here with great vio¬ 
lence. Farther to the eastward, the isthmus forms the head of a deep 
bay, in which there is anchorage in six or seven fathoms, sandy bottom, 
open to the southward ; and from the northward the trade-wind blows 
across the narrow neck of sand, between the two high mountains, with 
such tremendous violence as to carry every thing before it. The spot 
was not visited by any of the officers : the above account was obtained 
from the natives. 
On the east and north sides of the Sandwich Islands the trade- 
wind is constant during the summer months, and blows strongest 
during the day-time, varying from east to north-east. The south¬ 
west or lee sides of the Islands (although the land and sea breezes 
are pretty regular) are subject to light baffling winds and calms; a 
vessel, therefore, to whichever island bound, should endeavour to get 
to windward as soon as possible. There is, perhaps, an exception to 
this in the passage between the other islands and Karakakoa Bay ; but 
