sioqed the death of three of our turtles. At three ?sst o'clock a breeze springing up from the westward, enabled us .to. steer to the northward, round the Montebello Islands, in doing which we saw hothing of Hermite Island, which the French haw hid down as the westernmost island oflhat group. There is certainly no laud to the west- ward of Trimouille Island; and the error cau. only be accounted for by Captain Baudin's hav- ing'seen the latter at two clifferent periods; in- deed ?his conjecture is in some measure proved, since there is a considerable reef runn/ng the north-west end of that island, which in the French chart is attached to Hermite Isl?,d; this reef m/ght not have been seen by him at his flint v/sit,. and when he made the land again and ob. served the reef, he must have concluded it to lave been a second ishnd. After steering a north course until seven o'clock, and deepen/ng the water to sixty-five fathoms, we gradually hauled Found the north end of the Mon- tebello Isles; and at eleven p.m. steered East; but at two o'clock, having decreased the .depth from seventy-two to forty-one fathoms, we steered c/f to the aorthward until daylight, and then to the E.S.E., in order to anchor in the Merma/d's ?tra/t to the eastward of/?Ialus Is]and, .to take some stones on board as b_?l?,t,/or the brig �o?. IL 0
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