There was every possibility they were making their way into a deep bight where easterly winds might permanently embay them.
Fortunately, for Torres and company, that is not how things panned out.
Equally fortunately, their passage along the coast was well documented. The material has survived down to the present day. It forms the basis of Brett Hilder's The Voyage of Torres: The Discovery of the Southern Coastline of New Guinea and Torres Strait. 1 Hilder's work informs much of the content in the first of Five Voyages. 2
After slowly negotiating his way through the Strait and across the shallow waters to its west, Torres and company reached Ternate in early January 1607. They remained there for three months, bolstering the Iberian defences against Dutch interlopers before moving on to Manila.
Torres arrived there on 22 May 1607, produced some of the documentation that allows us to follow a momentous voyage in detail and then vanished.
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1 Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1980.
2 While that might not be strictly correct in a chronological sense, I prefer to consider the three Dutch expeditions in a sequence. In any case, Torres' passage through the Strait was the culmination of a process that began well before the first Dutch excursions to the East Indies.