Their passage back was effected by Van Diemen's Land, near which, and close under Tasman's Head, they were in the utmost peril of being wrecked.
In this long run, which had extended round the circle, they had always determined their longitude, to the greatest nicety, by distances taken between the sun and moon, or between the moon and a star.

But it falls to the lot of very few ships to possess such indefatigable and accurate observers as Captain Hunter, and Mr.( now Captain) Bradley, the first lieutenant of the 'Sirius'.
I feel assured, that I have no reader who will not join in regretting the premature loss of Arabanoo, who died of the smallpox on the 18th instant, after languishing in it six days.

From some imperfect marks and indents on his face, we were inclined to believe that he had passed this dreaded disorder.

Even when the first symptoms of sickness seized him, we continued willing to hope that they proceeded from a different cause.

But at length the disease burst forth with irresistible fury.