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 month, the Mermaid had reached Cape Londonderry, a part of the coast which, if we except a few of the islands that front it, Mons. Baudin did not see.

“In the space between Cape Bougainville and Cape Voltaire, which he has named the Admiralty Gulf, Lieutenant King determined the positions of at least forty islands or islets. The plan given by Mons. Freycinet of this Archipelago is so defective, that many of his islands could not be recognized.

On the 16th Oct., Lieutenant King again directed his course for Timor, but owing to contrary winds and unfavorable weather, he did not reach Coupang before the 1st of November. On the 12th Jan. 1820, we find him returning to Port Jackson, after an absence of thirty-five weeks and four days.

“On receiving their wages, the whole of the Mermaid’s crew, with only two exceptions, requested to be discharged; and the middle of June had nearly arrived before she could be re-manned. Mr. James Hunter, surgeon, who had arrived at Port Jackson in charge of convicts, then volunteered his services, which were gladly accepted, and he was accordingly attached to the cutter’s establishment. On the 22d of that