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reefs were, seen to seaward that we had not noticed last year. In passing the cape, we kept nearer to the sandy islet 7 than before, and had not less water than seven fathoms.
12.The next morning, having passed the night under Night Island, we resumed our course and steered round Cape Direction, with the intention of passing to windward of the long reef, f; but being prevented by its extending too much to the eastward to allow of our weathering it, we bore up, and, passing to the eastward of Piper's Islands, and of reef, l, anchored under Haggerston's Island.
As I did not intend running father than Sunday Island for my next anchorage, we did not weigh the following day13. until we had visited the island, and obtained a meridional altitude for its latitude and sight for the time-keeper. It is about a mile and a half in circumference, and forms a high rock of steep ascent; its windward side is clothed with a stunted brush, but the lee, or north-west, side is tolerably well wooded, and is fronted by a sandy beach, on which the traces of natives' fire-places, scattered with fish-bones and turtle shells, were foun in all directions. A considerable coral-reef extends to the northward, having some dry sandy keys at its north extremity. An extensive view of
