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February         on one side, and north on the other, shows that the sandy point was
Sunday 4       Cape Howe: its latitude must be about 37° 31', and this is the situation I afterwards found M^r Bass made it to be in by an observation due west from it. Standing along at the distance of one mile and a half from the shore, we observed some fires, and counted seven natives upon an eminence, looking at us. At this time, the wind chopped round to south-by-west, and began to freshen, with thick weather; which obliged us to leave the coast. At two o'clock we took our departure from Cape Howe, bearing west-by-south three miles, and immediately lost sight of the land. The wind came to the south-east at midnight when we tacked in shore, wishing to keep it on board that we might not pass the island upon which the convicts were; supposing it to be not far beyond Point Hicks.
Monday 5       On Monday afternoon we found ourselves 38' to the south of the reckoning, when we bore away west and ran seventy four miles to the next noon; our latitude the Tuesday 6 by double altitudes, was 38° 16' south, and the dead reckoning longitude 22' west of Point Hicks. At half past three, we kept more away, and soon after made a moderately high sloping hill, and other land to windward and leeward. At sunset, a low flat point (marked in a sketch) bore N.W.b.W ½ W. three or four leagues; at which time we hauled to the wind, it being still southerly in light airs. At daylight the flat point bore NNE ¼ E six or seven miles; at the same time a