Note 46 — Chapter XIX
George Windsor Earl translation
This opening was also entered two years subsequently by the Dutch corvette Triton and schooner Iris, when it was still supposed to be a river; but in 1835, Lieut. Kaal, of the Dutch navy, passed through it out to sea, proving the Dourga and St. Bartholomew Rivers to be the north-west and south-east entrances of a strait which cuts off the south-west extreme of New Guinea, and forms an island about one hundred miles long and sixty broad.—Translator.