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 MAY 2.

Sailed at 4 p.m.

MAY 6.

Sighted Cape Cuvier at noon.

MAY 7.

Sighted North West Cape at 10 a.m.

MAY 10.

Sighted at daylight & dropped anchor at 6 p.m. in 13 fathoms - between DeCambre & Hiray Island (I think).

MAY 11.

At 2 p.m. weighed anchor and stood in S.W. ½ W & anchored in 2 fathoms in Nicol Bay; manned boat at 3 p.m. to take soundings up Bay, S.W. course; myself acting as coxwain under Mr. Gregory's directions; after dark endeavoured to land on Eastern shore, got into broken water, with rocky bottom, boat going bump! bump! bump! which I reckon "Cupid" did not much admire on his ½ inch pine bottom. Shoved off, breakers ahead hard a port, & more by good luck than good management, got out the way we got in - ship sent up a rocket, & burnt blue light, endeavoured to make her, but too dark, too late, too windy; & ship too distant. Sailors tired out at midnight, & hove up; so we spent the night in the middle of the bay, all wet through. About 4 p.m. boat in broken water again, as