In steering this course, great care should be taken, not to go too much to the eastward to avoid the reef which the Tamar saw.
(See above.) If the moon is up the islets will be readily distinguished, but otherwise it would be more prudent to wait for daylight.

This course will carry a ship over two of my tracks, and the soundings will be in seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen fathoms.

From the low isles direct your course for the Hope Islands, which bear from the former North 18 degrees West thirty-eight miles, but the course had better be within that line, to avoid some reefs in latitude 15 degrees 51 minutes: pass, therefore, within five miles of Cape Tribulation, when a direct course may be steered either to the eastward or westward of the Hope Isles.

The better route will be within the western Hope, and along its reef at the distance of three-quarters of a mile, by which you will avoid reef a.

When you are abreast of its north end, steer North by West westerly for twenty-eight miles; this will carry you to Cape Bedford which you may round at from one to three or four miles.