?coA?rs or AU?-IA. tim west side o? �the strait. The.north end that island also appeared to be fronted by 'many air,ds, which either .embrace Red Island .and e?'tend to .the northward, .or else the.channels are.narrow and deep. The fiswing tide, now in our favour,-carried us quickly forward: as 'we passed on we .heard the voices-of nati?es,'and soon afterwards perceived two standing 'on hill'; .our course was, .howev?, so rapid that we were sconeout of sight of them; their fires?vere seen yesterday, but then they did not.make their .appearance. The .floed-tide, running to the .S.V?.. 'through the strait, meeting the ebb .flowing N.F,, into the deep bay to.the S.E., formed many strong piings?, which to a stranger would have been a fr?htful votftex to have entered, and .although we, had lately been accustomed to such appear- ances, yet we did not encounter them without some fea?. After clearing.them we.sounded on a mmtdy bottom; upon which, as the.weather was so thick and hazy as .to conceal the land from our view, we anchored in seventeen fathoms muddy sand, at six miles from the strait. In the .m'?erncon the weather cleared a little, but it was still too thick for us to be underweigh, so that we ?emalned all the evening, which was
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