conspicuous
headland, and it lies half a degree eastward of 212.14 W. Longitude, and
9' South of 10^{6}.3 deg. S. Latitude. Edwards' positions are usually so
accurate that I cannot see why they should have been departed from. Our
Cape Hood, on the other hand, is exactly in the position of his Cape
Rodney, and is besides a very conspicuous wooded tongue of land. Beyond
is another conspicuous point. Round Head, which corresponds in position
with Edwards' Cape Hood. Mount Clarence, moreover, would not appear to
lie between Capes Rodney and Hood until the former was out of sight
astern. I think that Mount Clarence must have been hidden by clouds, and
that Edwards' Mount Clarence was in reality the high cone in the Saroa
district, which is a conspicuous feature on the coast line. A further
indication that the day was hazy lies in the fact that Edwards did not
see the great Owen Stanley Range which towers up 13,000 feet behind. Had
he done so he would not have mistaken the mainland for a group of
scattered islands. Hamilton does not call Mount Clarence an "island," but
a "mountain." A further proof that Edwards' "Cape Hood" was Round Head is
found in the remark "After passing Cape Hood the land appears lower, and
to branch off about N.N.W., . . . for we saw no other land." This applies
to Round Head, and to no other part of the coast.

[70-1] If he had kept this course he would have struck the New Guinea
Coast again a little East of the Maikasa River.

[70-2] East Bay.

[71-1] It is difficult to understand how Edwards failed to see Flinders
Passage, which, while not free from obstructions to the westward, would
have admitted him to a safe anchorage at the Murray Islands, inside the
Barrier Reef.

[71-2] It was an unfortunate choice. Had he steered north on first
encountering the reefs he would have made the coast which he might have
followed in safety, as Bligh did in his boat voyage after the mutiny, by
what is now known as the Great North-East Channel. He was led Southward
by his plan of using the Endeavour Straits. See Hamilton's account, pp.
141-2.

[73-1] Two men were crushed to death; one by a gun that had broken loose,
and the other by a falling spar. The whole ship's company seems to have
behaved splendidly, working at the pumps and at the sail they were
preparing to haul under the ship's bottom until they could scarcely stand
for fatigue, with nothing to replenish their strength but "a cask of
excellent strong