CHAPTER XI.

Of the winds, currents, and navigation along the east coast of Terra
Australis, both without and within the tropic; also on the north coast.

Directions for sailing from Port Jackson, through Torres’ Strait, towards
India or the Cape of Good Hope.

Advantages of this passage over that round New Guinea.

BOOK III.

Occurrences from the time of quitting port Jackson in 1803, to arriving
in England in 1810.

CHAPTER I.

Departure from Port Jackson in the Porpoise,
accompanied by the Bridgewater and Cato. 
The Cato’s Bank. 
Shipwreck of the Porpoise and Cato in the night. 
The crews get on a sand bank; where they are left by the Bridgewater. 
Provisions saved. 
Regulations on the bank. 
Measures adopted for getting back to Port Jackson. 
Description of Wreck-Reef Bank. 
Remarks on the loss of M. de La Perouse.

CHAPTER II.

Departure from Wreck-Reef Bank in a boat. 
Boisterous weather. 
The Coast of New South Wales reached, and followed. 
Natives at Point Look-out. 
Landing near Smoky Cape; and again near Port Hunter. 
Arrival at Port Jackson on the thirteenth day. 
Return to Wreck Reef with a ship and two schooners. 
Arrangements at the Bank. 
Account of the reef, with nautical and other remarks.

CHAPTER III.

Passage in the Cumberland to Torres’ Strait. 
Eastern Fields and Pandora’s Entrance. 
New channels amongst the reefs. 
Anchorage at Half-way Island, and under the York Isles. 
Prince of Wales’s Islands further examined. 
Booby Isle. 
Passage across the Gulph of Carpentaria. 
Anchorage at Wessel’s Islands. 
Passage to Coepang Bay, in Timor; and to Mauritius,
where the leakiness of the Cumberland makes it necessary to stop. 
Anchorage at the Baye du Cap, and departure for Port Louis.

CHAPTER IV.

Arrival at Port Louis (or North-West) in Mauritius. 
Interview with the French governor. 
Seizure of the Cumberland, with the charts and journals of the
Investigator’s voyage; and imprisonment of the commander and people. 
Letters to the governor, with his answer. 
Restitution of some books and charts. 
Friendly act of the English interpreter. 
Propositions made to the governor. 
Humane conduct of captain Bergeret. 
Reflections on a voyage of discovery. 
Removal to the Maison Despeaux or Garden Prison.

CHAPTER V.