However, in about half an hour we did get off, and then thought it best to anchor on the edge of the reef till morning.

Soon after daylight on the 7th, finding our prau had received no damage, we sailed on with uncertain winds and squalls, threading our way among islands and reefs, and guided only by a small map, which was very incorrect and quite useless, and by a general notion of the direction we ought to take.

In the afternoon we found a tolerable anchorage under a small island and stayed for the night, and I shot a large fruit-pigeon new to me, which I have since named Carpophaga tumida.

I also saw and shot at the rare white-headed kingfisher (Halcyon saurophaga), but did not kill it.

The next morning we sailed on, and having a fair wind reached the shores of the large island of Waigiou.