This land in general is very high, and appears well wooded: there is the appearance of a number of openings, resembling bays or harbours; but our distance from shore was too great to ascertain any observation of that kind. At noon our latitude was 9 deg. 00' south, and the longitude 161 deg. 41' east; and the land trending away to the north-west, it was evident that we had rounded the east part of that island which Lieutenant Shortland coasted on its south side, from the latitude of 10 deg. 44' south longitude 161 deg. 41' east, to 6 deg. 55' south latitude, and 156 deg. 30' east longitude. As Lieutenant Shortland made the land on the opposite side of this island in latitude 10 deg. 44' south, longitude 161 deg. 30' east, and the Supply being this day in latitude 9 deg. 00' south, longitude 161 deg. 41' east; there remains a space between the situation of the two vessels, which, reduced to bearings and distances from these latitudes and longitudes, will give south 6 deg. east; distance 104 miles: now, the Supply was ten leagues off shore, and, admitting the Alexander (Lieutenant Shortland's ship,) to have been four leagues, it will make the breadth of the island 62 miles, and its length and bearings will be south 57 deg. east, and north 57 deg. west, 436 miles. The eastern extremity of this land is an island about 18 miles in circuit, lying at a small distance from the main island: I have before observed that it was named Sirius-Island, between which, and the Queen Charlotte's Islands, there cannot be many leagues, supposing Captain Carteret's longitude to have been right. The north-east coast of this island Lieutenant Ball named "-Ball's Maiden Land_;" and the passage between Sirius and Queen Charlotte's Islands, "-Supply's Passage_." At day-light in the morning of the 9th, land was seen, bearing from south to west, eleven leagues distant; it was very high, and there appeared to be a number of openings in it. Our latitude at noon on the 10th, was 7 deg. 16' south, and the longitude 162 deg. 23' east. We now daily found the vessel set considerably to the northward and westward, and on the 16th she was set 48 miles west-north-west during the 24 hours. A different kind of sea-fowl was seen about the vessel to any we had hitherto met with; it was of the ganet kind; the back, wings, and head being a glossy black, and the breast entirely white.