Departure from Spithead. 
Variation of the compass. 
The Dezertas. 
Arrival at Madeira. 
Remarks on Funchal. 
Political state of the island. 
Latitude and longitude. 
Departure from Madeira. 
The island St. Antonio. 
Foul winds; and remarks upon them. 
The ship leaky. 
Search made for Isle Sable. 
Trinidad. 
Saxemberg sought for. 
Variation of the compass. 
State of the ship’s company, on arriving at the Cape of Good Hope. 
Refitment at Simon’s Bay. 
Observatory set Up. 
The astronomer quits the expedition. 
Rates Of the time keepers. 
Some remarks on Simon’s Bay.

CHAPTER III.

Departure from False Bay. 
Remarks on the passage to Terra Australis. 
Gravity of sea-water tried. 
Cape Leeuwin, and the coast from thence to King George’s Sound. 
Arrival in the Sound. 
Examination of the harbours. 
Excursion inland. 
Country, soil, and productions. 
Native inhabitants:  Language and anatomical measurement. 
Astronomical and nautical observations.

CHAPTER IV.

Departure from King George’s Sound. 
Coast from thence to the Archipelago of the Recherche. 
Discovery of Lucky Bay and Thistle’s Cove. 
The surrounding country, and islands of the Archipelago. 
Astronomical and nautical observations. 
Goose-Island Bay. 
A salt lake. 
Nautical observations. 
Coast from the Archipelago to the end of Nuyts’ Land. 
Arrival in a bay of the unknown coast. 
Remarks on the preceding examination.

CHAPTER V.

Fowler’s Bay. 
Departure from thence. 
Arrival at the Isles of St. Francis. 
Correspondence between the winds and the marine barometer. 
Examination of the other parts of Nuyts’ Archipelago, and of the main
coast. 
The Isles of St Peter. 
Return to St. Francis. 
General remarks on Nuyts’ Archipelago. 
Identification of the islands in the Dutch chart.

CHAPTER VI.

Prosecution of the discovery of the unknown coast. 
Anxious Bay. 
Anchorage at Waldegrave’s and at Flinders’ Islands. 
The Investigator’s Group. 
Coffin’s Bay. 
Whidbey’s Isles. 
Differences in the magnetic needle. 
Cape Wiles. 
Anchorage at Thistle’s Island. 
Thorny Passage. 
Fatal accident. 
Anchorage in Memory Cove. 
Cape Catastrophe, and the surrounding country. 
Anchorage in Port Lincoln, and refitment of the ship. 
Remarks on the country and inhabitants. 
Astronomical and nautical observations.

CHAPTER VII.