VOYAGES FOR THE SURVEY
OF THE
INTERTROPICAL COASTS
OF
AUSTRALIA.
Intended mode of proceeding, and departure from Port Jackson :—Irmit Twofold Bay :—Natives seen :—Paseage through Bass' Strait and along the South Coast to King George the Third's Sound :—Transactions there :—Voyage to the North-West Cape, and Survey of the Coast between the North-West Cape and Depuch Island, including the examinations of Exmouth Gulf, Curlew River, and Dampier's Archipelago :—Loss of Anchors, and Interview with the Natives :—Remarks upon Dampier's account of Rosemmary Island, and of the Island upon which he landed.
1817. Dec. 21.
AT the time that the Mermaid was ready to commence her voyage, it was the season when the westerly monsoon blows over that part of the sea which separates the islands of Timor and New Guinea from Australia; it was therefore necessary, in order to benefit by the direction of the wind, to commence the survey of the coast at its western extremity, the North-West Cape: but, to do this, the passage was to be made, by taking
