The land to the westward of the Crocodile Islands trends deeply in, forming a bay in which two low wooded islands were noticed.

As we steered into it the water shoaled; and as there was nothing to induce our persevering we steered round the next point of land, and anchored at sunset to leeward of a shoal projecting in a North-West direction from the point.

The coast falls back round this point and forms an unsheltered bay seven or eight miles deep.
August 4.
The following morning our course was held parallel with the shores of the bay towards a point of land which afterwards proved to be the eastern head of a deep opening.
To the northward of this point was an island and farther on to seaward a dry sandbank.

As we approached the point we were obliged to haul off for there was evidently a shoal communication between it and the island, and every appearance of its being connected with the sandbank in the offing.
The dark colour of the water on the other side of this line of communication induced me to stand round the sandbank; when, as was expected, we entered a deep channel leading towards the most distant parts of the bight, which afterwards turned out to be the mouth of a river.

The sandbank was called Haul-round Islet and the island Entrance Island.