?6. ?JRYEY.OF. T?E..?ItO. PICAL ?sm. Heywood's.Red Island:' it is.rocky and Of. small. �?s,"?- extent., and. apparently quite barren.' We:were. soon.aRerwards abreast of, a strait leading.be-- which, as it appeared.to be f?ee .from danger, we- purposed to.steer through.. The brig entered it at. noon, when.it was hi?h= water,. and. as.'she. advanced and reached.the narrow part, the ebb- tide '?n.? ? so. stroug a?iust. us .that, though we were. snillt?g five knots by the ,log,' we were. losing ground; we continued, however, to persevere for.three.hours and a half/and had run nearly. twenty, miles .b.y. the: log,'. without ga/ning an inch; the.breeze.then died away, .and nct lug able to ?tem thetide,..we. steered. hack for an- e?orn?e, .but it.was dark and late before .a fayour- .aisle ? hottom, was. found,. so that w? ,lost. all.the. pro?ess that :we .hnd ?ained since noon. : la The next morning, after ?king angles..fi?xn the sLm'? rising ampi/rude, w.e got underweigh and.stood.towards the. strait, .to make another attempt to pass.through it...The view thnt. was obtained.yesterday even/ug from the mast-head, before we put .about to 1ook for. anchorage,..in- duced us. to .suppose that man.y reefs existed .in the neighbourhood of its south entrance, far ?one of. very. extensi.?e s/ze was .observed dry, lying aft the south.west.end.of the/sland.that botmds o,g,,,zed by Goog|�
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