blow long and heavy; besidteS,! (defects onshbreare not easily
distinguished except when clos|}.>£ Governor King- had taken
• of lea v ing a 1 e 11 er fetf mb at the Gape, describing
thepar|iGular^ marks for knowing the entrance-d& the Port, which
no doubt saved us much trouble, 'They consisted o f a pedestal
and flag-staff erected on the;S; head or left-hand side of the-entrance,
and .when vessels are ^§en the^flag-tis J i l t e d . This land
being high* as is also the N. head, may be seen at a consider^
able distance in a elearday. Botany Bay being the firsCbpen-
ingthat attracted our notice; we made the .best .of •our way in the?
afternoon pf the ld fh tq .the northward, and sojon after saw the
flag-staff as described by Governor King. At .six in the„even-
ing we-entered between the Heads of Port; Jackson.- Prom the
violence of the. weather we found much swell in going in,* but
wererSpon in smooth'water and an excellent harbour,^-perhaps,
one. oJfth§;finest in ttheiknown world. A§ the.i>wind‘ was feomT
the ,S. and contrary to. getting into1 Sydney* Cpve," we>%ere
obliged to beat up to it, and a t half past seven i n ; the evening
we let go our anchors in eight fathoms water, after a voyage of
seventy-one days from the Cape of Good 11 ope; and withthe
satisfaction of being-the first vessel that Over pursued the .same
track across that vast ocean; as we have'no traces of its being
done, particularly from thpt Island-of Amsterdam, viz. between
the degrees of latitude 38° and 39° 1' S. until the Lady- Nelson
made the Coast of New Holland in latitude 38°,* and steering to
the eastward along a. tract of land nearly four, degrees to the!
westward of any seen by Messieurs Bass and Flinders; the
former being the only ope who had visited any part of that
coast- to the westward of Wilson’s Promontory ; Mr. Flinders’
survey-fining more particularly attached to the S. side of those*
Straits (now deservedly named Bass’s Straits,)-along Van Die-
man’s, Land. I now reflect with much pleasure that I had*
concohdSeted'
my^littl^e^^l^’saf&ly^^uifi*' Which* many judged ini-
practida4blev|bofh irf EngTatid' and^ifr fh^?‘CMpe,£ withoutany* fla-
m%e^idibfsin ri'g^ju^,#ma!t^;i©t-f- §parS f^fieMd^fulfrlli'ng thh
Dukesof Portland^ orderl»fiS^dlb.6]^Tora^^^l^WllF0® h these
SffMfs. 4 Many Jl%fie^Gape''thonght'fit
ted' hazard(Mseac>H attempt imrunniffgdown tM^lhnd -in M#fBhigh
southern 'latitutld^W'fiete'i'iPgenera^^'eaTj^S. IV. \vmds^ar^
s%nfly - blowii%^ * and* Whdre M !migh^;Trom the^Tong* rafnw^df
'*eda§tf-no-t -be hble> to^dxtrieate-niys’dlf. ?The dld^ieateii’tr'acldto
PoSt'd^eMbtf from-^the-* westward^thddhstwaTeFwas' strongly
r^e^rfmlplded ; a&*by that' I%Jfcmcbncst D'e^i^liablfe^^be b’affldd
with ^este'tly winds in any1 fdi:^dw®£dsH' slrouw afterwards-'g^
#jfefein the Strait^. Th&Vpeevish and ‘ ighi&hnt railed al%o||IPf
theriah the -attempt in Wch awessefde5 m ^ o d h e 'y
Sduth,JWai^I and scrupled1 ndt- toSsayWriV'MHould ha^fi^a loh|ji
drift dfrit/dsrit %aS impossible to-run or.sciid, the- s©dtbveihg tbb
a - p iS ^ t e l ' M a n p S P th ^ ^m e tfh ’ads b een ‘to
^ e ^ ^ o ttJh -Wal^,' and. ought th e ^ 8 redd%We^lm(fwnf Mtleif-
morepiarticularlyv as1 in-the passage to the'Cape of*GoSdcptfd^
from England#there isdn winter^ and in' the^ifeghbourho'6d%f
theGapej-as heavy weather’ and sea-as irtahj^part^df thcknown
'■v^rld. Having however * Conquered all thdse - dfffi'culties' df
imagination, I felt'thankful to ^^dTorTfl^gMatsu'^fei^we had
met-with, and the protection he had shewn-us throughout -the
wholejCVoyagei Governor King had been expecting us for Sorfib*
time,.-,as I had written to him-from the GapeP^Go’od^H^pe byv
the Porp'oiSe, whfch^left that\ place South-Wales
- To the stranger:;the harbour of Port Jackson appears-plSJsing
and picturesque, - as he advances*up it* to town. ^A^sinall
island with a house On? it; named Garden Island,- (which afterwards
became my residence)^enriches the*view. On tMeVniain
ra is