Being off Cape Bedford, and steering to the North 1/2 West, you will see the Three Isles ahead:  steer between them and the low wooded island; and direct your course round Cape Flattery and Point Lookout, to anchor under the Turtle Group, unless you have time before dark to reach the islands 4, 5, or 6, of Howick’s Group.  Under which anchorage may be found.  In rounding Point Lookout, do not come within two miles and a half of it, to avoid a reef that is on Captain Cook’s chart, but which we did not see; it lies a mile and a half north from the peaked hill at the extremity of the point.  You may pass without the Turtle Group, or you will find anchorage under Lizard Island, but this is not recommended, both because the wind is generally fresher as you increase your distance from the shore, and because it lengthens the distance.

From the Turtle Group steer North West by West 1/2 West until you see the hillock at the south-east end of Number 1 of Howick’s Group:  then pass inside and within a mile of 2 and 3, and between islet 4 and Cole’s Islands, and inshore of 6 and the dry sands s, t, and u.  The Mermaid’s track will direct the course to Cape Melville.  If the day is late when abreast of 6, of Howick’s Group, anchorage had better be secured under it, as there is none to be recommended between it and Cape Flinders.

Upon rounding Cape Melville, the Islands of Flinders’ Group will be seen; and as soon as you have passed round the stony reef that projects off the Cape (the extremity of which bears from it by compass North West by North, and from Pipon’s Island South-West by West 1/4 West nearly) in doing which steer within the reef that surrounds Pipon Island, direct the course for the extremity of the islands, which is Cape Flinders; the course and distance being West 3/4 South nearly thirteen miles:  on this a low woody island will be left on the starboard hand.

His Majesty’s sloop Satellite, in 1822, grounded upon a small reef, bearing North by East (easterly) from the extremity of the cape, distant about two miles; but, as a ship may pass within a stone’s throw of the cape, this danger may be easily avoided.  The best anchorage here is under the flat-topped hill, at a third of a mile from the shore, in ten fathoms, muddy bottom.  In hauling round the cape, avoid a shoal which extends for a short distance from the shore on its western side.

If the day is not far advanced, and you have time to run fifteen miles further, the ship may proceed to the reef d; but, indeed, anchorage may be obtained under any of the reefs or islets between this part and Cape Grenville, for the bottom is universally of mud; and by anchoring with the body of a reef, bearing South-East, the vessel is sufficiently sheltered from the sea, which is generally smooth.

On leaving Cape Flinders, steer West 3/4 North for about twenty-three miles, leaving the reefs c and g to seaward, and d, e, and f to the southward, of the course; then haul up about North-West 3/4 North, and steer within the reef l and Pelican Island, and to seaward of the Claremont Islands 1 and 2, which are low and woody.