Near the anchorage was a small mangrove opening, the entrance of which was blocked up by a dry mud bank.
When we landed we found a piece of wood upon the beach with a nail-hole in it: it had probably been part of a Malay proa; for a fleet of such visitors, consisting of twenty-six vessels on the trepang fishery, was seen in this neighbourhood by the French in 1801;* and, according to their report, annually visit this part of the coast.
(*Footnote.

Freycinet Terres Australes page 24.) This day was spent in examining the shores of the bottom of the bay.

We first pulled up the arm to the eastward of Vine Head which trends in for one mile, and then examined the bay on its western side, which was found to be both shoal and rocky.

We next rowed inside of Jar Island whose peaked summit forms a very good mark for the channel between the Middle and Long Rocks.

In pulling towards the west side of the bay, at the back of Jar Island, a native was perceived running along the rocky shore towards the point we were steering for; round which, as we passed it yesterday, there appeared to be a deep cave or inlet.