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 ]0 SURVEY OF THE INTEtTROPICAb lssl. masts; but he declined it as he was anxious .to, jane m. get on without delay; and, having Captain Flin-. ders*s charts, intended to run "d and nigkt tlwougk th reefs;" he told me .that he had an- chored here with the intention of watering and cutting some pine spars, but that not finding the latter worth the trouble, he was then getting underweigh to proceed. When I went away, he accompanied me to look over my plan of the passage; after which he returned to his vessel, which soon afterwas steered past us on her way to the northward. Mr. Hemroans told me that he had anchored under Keppel Islands, where he had a friendly communication with the natives, who used nets, which he thought were of European construction; but from his descrip,' tion, they are similar to what have been before seen on the coast, and are constructed by the natives themselves. 13. At eight 'clock the next morning we got un- derweigh; but the Dick in weighing her an- ehor found both flukes broken off[ The nex 14, day, we rounded the north extremity of the Cumberland Islands; and at four o'clock a.m. 15. the 15th, were abreast of Cape Gloucester. Thick cloudy weather with rain and a fresh breeze from the southward, variable between S.S.F_, and S.S.W., now set in, and was unfa-

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