East point of the little bay, dist. 11/2 mile, East. 
West point, distant three miles, N. 38 deg.  W.
Cape Jervis, inner low point, N. 3 W.
Eastern extreme of the coast, N. 65 E.

The bay is perfectly sheltered from all southern winds; and as there were several spots clear of wood near the beach, it is probable that the kangaroos, and perhaps cassowaries, might be numerous.  We did not stop to land, but got under way so soon as the bearings were taken, to beat out of the strait against the south-east wind; so little was gained, however, after working all the day, that at eight in the evening the ship was still off the east end of Kangaroo Island.

This part of the Investigator’s Strait is not more, in the narrowest part, than seven miles across.  It forms a private entrance, as it were, to the two gulphs; and I named it Back-stairs Passage.  The small bay where we had anchored is called the Ante-chamber; and the cape which forms the eastern head of the bay and of Kangaroo Island, and lies in 35 deg. 48’ south and 138 deg. 13’ east, received the appellation of Cape Willoughby.  Without side of the passage, and almost equidistant from both shores, there are three small, rocky islets near together, called the Pages, whose situation is in latitude 35 deg. 461/2’ and longitude 138 deg. 21’ east; these are the sole dangers in Back-stairs Passage, and two of them are conspicuous.  Our soundings in beating through were from 8 to 23 fathoms; and in a strong rippling of tide like breakers there was from 10 to 12, upon a bottom of stones and shells.

At eight in the evening we tacked from Cape Willoughby; and having passed to windward of the Pages, stretched on east and north-eastward until four in the morning [THURSDAY 8 APRIL 1802].  Land was then seen under the lee, and a tack made off shore till daylight, when we stood in with the wind at east-south-east.  At nine the land was distant five miles, and of a very different aspect to that of Cape Jervis.  As far as six leagues from the cliffy southern extremity of the Cape the land is high, rocky and much cut by gullies or ravines; a short, scrubby brush-wood covers the seaward side, and the stone appeared to be slaty, like the opposite cliffs of Kangaroo Island.  But here the hills fall back from the sea, and the shore becomes very low with some hummocks of sand upon it; and the same description of coast prevailed as far as could be seen to the eastward.

Our situation at nine o’clock, when we tacked to the south, was as follows;

Longitude by time keepers, 138 deg. 471/2’
Cape Jervis, two southern parts, bore S. 84 W.
A round hummock, N. 85 W.
A rocky islet, under the land, N. 62 W.
Furthest visible part of the sandy coast, S. 87 E.