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 399 Oft h large nests that 'have been so freqtmntly heftare described. It was 'six feet in dimmr, formed principally of sticks, among which was found a piecs of bamboo about flys that had evidently been Cut at its extremiti by a sharp-edged tool, probably by the Malays. Whatever the ihnbitant of thin net might have been, it was doubtless a bird of ctmsiderable size and power, to hvo tranesported a stick of The next mornir, ater Mr. Roe had sounded s. the strait that separates later's Island from the main, we got underweigh and passed through it; and then rounding a high island,' named after Dr. �V. H. Wollasten, we steered to the west- ward, through a group of islets, which were too numerous to bo correctly placed in a running survey. To the westward of Vollaston Island is a deep bay, which, from the broken appearance of the coast at the back, there is somo reason to think may prove the emboc/r of a small rivulet; but, as it was not of sufficient importance to cause delay, it was' passed with the appellation of Mudgo Bay. In the evening we anchored off an island, named, on account of the peculiar shape of a rock near the beach, Capstan Island; and, as it wanted yet an hour to sunset, we landed and . ascended tim summit, which, from its.very rugged

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