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[1802 Aug. Tuesday - 3rd. H.M.S. Investigator] along the east coast. - Bustard Bay
[Astronomical observations not reproduced - see original journal]

The south point of Bustard Bay is rocky, and upon it is a roundish hummock. Until within a few miles of the bay 3 o'clock, the shore continued to be low and nearly straight, but it then becames higher and much formed indenteds, but not deeply. - The spit from the west side of the bay, upon which the sea broke, appeared to seen from be connected with the south point until we were very near it
Natives were seen upon the south point of the bay, and the wood there was on shore fire to a considerable extent.
   The latitude of the south point or of captain Cooks [anchor]age which are the same, he calls 24°.4', but I should call it 24°8' In the latitude of the north point we agree much nearer: it is in 24°.00' according to this days observation. From the greater increased distance between the points, the bay is extended beyond its limits in C.Cs + Captain Cook's [This note has been added in pencil] chart, and is indeed much unlike its in form there; his expression, however of its being a large open bay, applies exceedingly well to it. In the longitude of the north point we differ 10', our time-keepers giving it in 151º.47' Et. - This difference seems to have been accumulating since we left Double-island Point, for at that place the difference was only 2', which our longitude was to the east, as it had been all along the coast before the watch A1736, gives the same, nearly.