This Place Is In The Latitude Of 20 Degrees 21
Minutes, But In The Draught That I Had Of This
Coast, which was
Tasman's, it was laid down in 19 degrees 50 minutes, and the shore
is laid down as
All along joining in one body or continent, with
some openings appearing like rivers, and not like islands as really
they are. This place lies more northerly by 40 minutes than is laid
down in Mr. Tasman's draught, and besides its being made a firm
continued land, only with some openings like the mouths of rivers, I
found the soundings also different from what the pricked line of his
course shows them, and generally shallower than he makes them, which
inclines me to think that he came not so near the shore as his line
shows, and so had deeper soundings, and could not so well
distinguish the islands. His meridian or difference of longitude
from Shark's Bay agrees well enough with my account, which is two
hundred and thirty-two leagues, though we differ in latitude; and to
confirm my conjecture that the line of his course is made too near
the shore, at least not far to the east of this place, the water is
there so shallow that he could not come there so nigh.
But to proceed. In the night we had a small land breeze, and in the
morning I weighed anchor, designing to run in among the islands, for
they had large channels between them of a league wide at least, and
some two or three leagues wide.
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