Sunday 5 May 2013

April 25th

We left Sydney in company with H.M.S Goldfinch
bound for the Solomon Islands and after a very
fine passage of 10 days we arrived at the island
of Guadolcanan of the longest islands of
the Solomon Group having run a distance
of 2000 miles we dropped anchor in Honiara
Bay on the night of 5th May our soundings
being very deep. On our arrival several canoes
containing natives came alongside to barter
with yams bananas in exchange for tobacco
& clay pipes, the mountains on this island
are very steep and come right down to the wa-
ters edge, they are between 7000 & 8000 feet
and covered to the summit with very
dense jungle

(Guadalcanal ? Guadalcanan?  definetly an n not an l written in the diary)
(Honiara is an modern day guess the word is difficult to read and looks like Hondirera Bay???

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