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 COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. CHAPTER II. EximIro of RoleI's $1oals, nd Pge to the North C,,mst.---$urvey of Goulbum Islands, Mountnorris and Ram Bays :--Meet a Malay Fleet, and communicate. with one of the Pr(ms :-- Explore Port Essington:mAttacked by Natives in . Knoeker's Bay :-- Anchor'in Popham Kay :-- Visit from tim Malays : Examination of Van Diemen's Gulf, including Sir George Hope's Islands and Alligator ]ivers:mSurvey of the Northern Shore of Melville Island, and Apsley Strait .--lnterview with. the Natives of Luxmore Head.--Procure wood at Port �Hurd:Natlves:Clarence $trait:--I,eave the Coast, and arrival at Timor. TsE south-east wind, which set in on the morning lSS. that we let our anchorage otF Depuch Island, M8. continued to blow with thick misty weather, and made us conjecture that the westerly monsoon was nearly expended; we, therefore, steered the coast with the tention of lroceeding to the eastwad towards Cape Arnhem, after asee- tainin the position of a shoal that was seen by Captain Rowle, in H... Imperieuse, in 1800, and of two others that are described by Captain Horsburgh to be in its yicinity., They are situated according to the above authorities as follows, viz. : lmperieuse Shoal (uth end) lat. 17  35'. long. 118 �. Shoal seen by the ship Goocl Hope (north end),. . lat. 17 �'. long. 1 IDo 18'. Shoal seen by Capt. Clcrke, (north part). . . lat. ]7 �' long. 1 � �