Tuesday 11 October 1836

11 October-Moderate and cloudy. At a quarter to six got under way, light variable winds from the S.W. At noon we observed a boat coming towards us; at two p.m. hove to for the boat, which brought Mr Morphett and Mr Stephens. From these gentlemen we learned the arrival of the Cygnet at Nepean Bay, and that great part of the stores were already landed, and that the party had begun to hut themselves. I now resolved upon going into Rapid Bay, and after landing some stores there, to send the brig to Kangaroo Island, to fetch over the Assistant Surveyors, that they might be employed in the survey on this side the Gulf, during my examination of Port Lincoln, &c. Messrs Morphett and Stephens left us, and we made sail for Rapid Bay, and at twenty to seven came to an anchor.