He considered the nautical advantages of the harbour--to become in later years a rather important centre for whaling--superior to those of any other anchorage entered during the voyage.

A landmark was indicated by him with a quaint touch: "It may be known by a red point on the south side, of the peculiar bluish hue of a drunkard's nose." On the following day at about eleven o'clock in the morning he rounded Cape Howe, and commenced his westerly run.

He was now nearing a totally new stretch of coast.
From the 22nd to the 30th bad weather was experienced.

A gale blew south-west by west, full in their teeth.

The situation must have been uncomfortable in the extreme, for the boat was now entering the Strait.
The heavy seas that roll under the lash of a south-west gale in that quarter do not make for the felicity of those who face them on a well-found modern steamer.