Bligh's party island-hops northward within the lagoon…
June 1789 CE
Strains are showing within the party; following a heated disagreement with Purcell, Bligh grabs a cutlass and challenges the carpenter to fight.
Fryer tells Cole to arrest their captain, but backs down after Bligh threatens to kill him if he interferes.
On June 2, the launch clears Cape York, the extreme northern point of the Australian continent.
Bligh turns southwest, and steers through a maze of shoals, reefs, sandbanks, and small islands.
The route taken is not the Endeavour Strait, but a narrower southerly passage later known as the Prince of Wales Channel.
At eight pm in the evening, they reach the open Arafura Sea, still eleven hundred nautical miles (two thousand kilometers; thirteen hundred miles) from Coupang.