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 mile and a half to the southward of the north east trend of the Cape. Here the cot is low and eek - mac17, md is of shoal approach. A small dump of mangrove-trees on the beach was the first sign of vegetation that we had seen; and, from the absence of verdure hereabout, is a con. spicuous object. The thermometer stood at 89 �The ebb t/de then commenced and drifted us out near our last night's anchoring ground, and the evening was spent, without success, in searchin for our lost anchor. At sunset a fresh breeze set in from the S.W., and fearing a repetition of our loss, we continued under sail during the ni� which was past with �t anxiety; and not without reason; for when the day broke, we fund ourselves within one m/le of the reef off the S.W. end of the island in the north east, (which proved to be Captain Baudin's Muiron Island,) and drifting towards it so rapidly, that in less than half an hour the vessel would have been thrown upo the rocks. S to the eastward we discovered the three sandy islets--h, i, and k; nd at noon, we were near two other sandy islets, y, and z, which appeared to be the north-westemmost of a 8roup of low, sandy, or rocky islets, extending to the S.E., beyond the limits of our mast.head view. The islets, y and 5, are of c/radar shape, and not more than a

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