Part 8 (2/2)
”Thursday, June 17th At 2 PM came to one reach above Portland Head At 7 PM hove up and by one AM caot a couple of reaches higher e anchored, owing to the strength of the wind against us, one hour People in the launch pulling
”Friday, June 18th At 2 AM dropped the settlean to deliver the provisions
”Saturday, June 19th Finished the delivery of the provisions and began to take in corn from His Majesty's store
”Tuesday, June 22nd Eun, by noon we finished loading having got on board 520 bushels corn; hauled off to the stream
Hawkesbury River to Sydney Cove
”Wednesday, June 23rd E ready to drop down and at 9 AM
hove up and began to ton the river; by noon got as low as Siot down as low as the lowest settlers and then caot down a couple of reaches e grounded on a ot past Lover's Leap, at noon got down another reach
”Friday, June 25th At one PM caot two reaches below Sackville Reach
”Saturday, June 26th Proceeding down the river, at 3 PM caot below the first branch
”Sunday, June 27th At 9 AM hove up and proceeding down the river and by noon passed the lower reach
”Monday, June 28th At 10 AM hove up and atteained two reaches
”Tuesday, June 29th Gained one reach usts of wind and lulls ere obliged to bring up At 10 AM
the cuained by noon only one o our anchor
”Wednesday, June 30th At 11 PM hove up and towed down a couple of reaches ere obliged to bring to At 11 AM hove up and by noon nearly reached Mangrove Point; wind favouring us, set main-sail and stay sails
”Thursday, July 1st At 3 PM carove Reach, 6 AM hove our sone
”Friday, July 2nd Tacking down the river--by 3 PM cahed and made sail down the river At noon passed the Francis schooner lying at Mullet Island
”Saturday, July 3rd At 9 AM the Francis weighed and stood up the river; at noon weighed and towed doards Broken Bay
”Sunday, July 4th At 6 PM after having atteed to come to in 4 fathoms water At 6 AM hove up and made sail down the bay, at 7 AM passed Pittwater, at 8 got abreast of the South Head, at 10 the North Head of Port Jackson bore west-south-west 4 h sea By 4 PM entered the heads and at half-past 7 PM came to at Garden Island Commander waited on the Governor and Commander-in-Chief
CHAPTER 7
THE LADY NELSON AND THE INVESTIGATOR EXAMINE THE NORTH-EASTERN ShoreS OF AUSTRALIA
In the previous chapter it has been told how Captain Flinders arrived at Port Jackson on May 9th, 1802, ten days before the departure of the Naturaliste and how he had brought news to Haraphe in Encounter Bay On his way to Sydney, Flinders had charted nearly the whole of the South Coast of Australia from Cape Lewin to Wilson's Pro his notice--and had entered and surveyed Port Phillip
I as to the future explorations of the Investigator They came to the conclusion that it would be injurious both for the shi+p and for her crew to attempt another survey of the South Coast at that season of the year, and decided that the Investigator, in company with the Lady Nelson, should proceed to the northward along the Australian coast and then to the ard, if it were possible, to exa when the north-west ht be expected