The next morning after Mr. Roe had sounded the strait that separates Kater's Island from the main we got underweigh and passed through it; and then rounding a high island named after Dr.
As soon as we arrived on board we got underweigh and steered round the bluff point on the west side of the island; and at half past five o'clock anchored at about half a mile from the shore of the bay on which we had lately landed.
We got underweigh in the morning, but from the shallowness of the water anchored within a mile east of our former position.
The weather was thick and gloomy, and it rained fast; but, having completed our survey and observations, and the wind being favourable, it was resolved to get underweigh without further loss of time.
That a vessel underweigh could be destroyed by means of stationary submarine mines, and by the harpoon torpedo.
On November 16th we gotunderweigh at daylight, but the wind died away in the afternoon, and we anchored halfway down the harbour.
Returning to the ship before noon, we immediately got underweigh for Sydney.
Morning observations for rating the chronometers having been obtained, we got underweigh soon afterwards, and, bidding farewell to the Louisiade Archipelago, commenced our voyage to Sydney.
And, after being underweigh all the night near its inner entrance, during which we had once nearly struck on a reef of rocks, found ourselves at daylight drifting through it with a rapid ebb-tide without a breath of wind.
Halfway Bay offers very good anchorage out of the strength of the tides, with abundance of room to get underweigh from.
The next morning, after taking angles from the sun's rising amplitude, we gotunderweigh and stood towards the strait to make another attempt to pass through it.
At two o'clock we again got underweigh and crossed the bank, when the wind falling calm we anchored with Point Cunningham bearing South 17 degrees East three and a half miles.
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