COAgrS o? ?t?raALIA. ]03 At thim anchorage we perceived very li ttle rise and fall of tide, and the flood and ebb both set to the northward; this was also the case at our anchorage within the Laceperle Islands. At four o'clock the next morning a strong south-easterly breeze sprang up, and moderated again bdore we weighed; but no sooner were we under sail than it freshened again, and, at half. past five o'clock, blew so strong as to oblige our double ree? the topsails, which had not been done for many weeks before. At noon the w/rid fell, and was very calm, at which time our latitude ob- served was 17 � 88". The highest part of the land bore N. ?0it � south of which a sandy pe/nt, supposed to be Captain Baudin's Cape Boileau, bore S. 87 � and a smoke, a little to the northward of the mast.head ex- treme, bearing S. 4//� must be upon the land in the neighbourhood of Cape Latrei]le. Soon after noon the breeze veered round by South to W.S.W., and enabled us to make some progress; at sunset we again anchored in thir- teen fathoms, soft sand, at six miles from a sandy projection of the main, which we aP, er- wards found to be the land called by Captain Bau,,!in, Oantheaume Island; the name has there. ? been given to the point, for there was no appeatanoe of its being insulated. It boars a
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