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 CHAPTEI �LtI. EXAMXAT!Oq of the coast between Cape Londonderry and Cape Voltaire, containing the surveys ot  Sir Graham Moore's Islands, Eclipse llanda, Vansittart Bey, Admiralty GulF, and Port Warrender :--Encounter with the natives of Vansittart Bay :- Leave the coast at Cassini Island for Coepaug :--Obliged to bear up for Savu :--Anchor at Zeeba Bay, and interview with the rajah :--Some account of the inhabitants Disappointecl in not finding water :--Leave Zeeha Bay, and beat back against the monsoon to Coepaug:Complete wood and water, and procure refreshments .---Return to Port Jackson.,--Pass the latitude assigned to the Tryal Rocks .--Arrlval in Sydney Cove. 1811). WE had !low reached a part of the coast which, Ocu,ber I. excepting a few of the/slands that front it, the French 'xpedition did not see: we should, therefore, have commenced its eamination with more pleasure had we been in a state better titted for the purpose; for we were rapidly con- suming our*stock of water without any prospect of finding a supply at this season; and this, added to the loss of our anchors, considerably lessened the satisfaction we should otherwise have felt in viewing the prospect before us. After a calm and sultry morning, a breeze from the N.E. carried us towards the land, the situ- ation of which was pointed out by the smoke

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