(Footnote.  Flinders volume 1 page 64 and Brown’s General Remarks in Flinders volume 2 page 601 et seq.)

(**Footnote.  Smith’s Introduction to Botany page 150.)

“I spent much time in a fruitless search for flowering specimens of cephalotus; all the plants were very small and weak, and showed no disposition to produce flowers at the season, and none had more than three or four ascidia."*

(Footnote.  Cunningham manuscripts.)

The only edible plants that Mr. Cunningham found were a creeping parsley (Apium prostratum, Labil.) and a species of orach (Atriplex halimus, Brown) the latter was used by us every day, boiled with salt provisions, and proved a tolerable substitute for spinach or greens.  During our visit we caught but very few fish, and only a few oysters were obtained, on account of the banks being seldom uncovered, and the presence of the natives which prevented my trusting the people out of my sight for fear of a quarrel.  Shellfish of other sorts were obtained at Mistaken Island in abundance, of which the most common were a patella and an haliotis; the inhabitant of the former made a coarse, although a savoury dish.  There were also varieties of the following genera:  namely, lepas, chiton, cardium, pinna, nerita, two or three species of ostrea, a small mytilus, and a small buccinum of great beauty; that covered the rocks and at low water might be collected in abundance.

CHAPTER 4. 
Leave King George the Third’s Sound, and commence the survey of the West
Coast at Rottnest Island. 
Another remarkable effect of mirage. 
Anchor under, and land upon Rottnest Island. 
Break an anchor. 
Examine the coast to the northward. 
Cape Leschenault. 
Lancelin Island. 
Jurien Bay. 
Houtman’s Abrolhos. 
Moresby’s Flat-topped Range. 
Red Point. 
Anchor in Dirk Hartog’s Road, at the entrance of Shark’s Bay. 
Occurrences there. 
Examination of the coast to the North-west Cape. 
Barrow Island. 
Heavy gale off the Montebello Isles. 
Rowley’s Shoals. 
Cape Leveque. 
Dangerous situation of the brig among the islands of Buccaneer’s
Archipelago. 
Examination and description of Cygnet Bay. 
Lose an anchor, and leave the coast. 
Adele Island. 
Return to Port Jackson.

1822.  January 6.

We sailed from King George’s Sound on the 6th.

January 8.

But from south-westerly winds, were no further advanced by the 8th than the meridian of Cape Chatham.  After which, entering a current setting at one mile an hour to the westward, the brig made considerable progress.

January 10.

At daylight, 10th, Cape Leeuwin came in sight from the masthead, and at eight o’clock was seen from the deck at the distance of ten leagues, bearing North 42 degrees East by compass.