During the afternoon we had little wind; in the evening we passed a mile and a half to the eastward of a low and dangerous reef which escaped Captain Cook's observation; the only part of it that was visible above the water were two low rocks, but as the tide ebbed the craggy heads of several smaller ones gradually uncovered, and at low water it is probably quite dry; we passed it in ten fathoms.

It is not probable that its extent is greater than what is exposed at low water, but from its steepness it is very dangerous.
(*Footnote.

Hawkesworth volume 3 page 136.) At sunset we anchored about four miles to the eastward of the position assigned to a reef, on which the ship Lady Elliot struck, in 1815; but saw nothing of it.
June 19.
At daybreak we resumed our voyage and steered for Cape Sandwich after passing inside the Palm Island Group.

We were now approaching Point Hillock, which is a point of land projecting for two miles into the sea, with a small hillock at its extremity; from which Captain Cook named it; the land rises precipitously behind it to the height of about two thousand feet and forms a mass of bare rocky hills of a singularly grand and imposing appearance.

It rises nearly perpendicularly from the lower wooded hills at its base and is as abrupt on its land side as on that which faces the sea.