280 cook's first voyage SEPT. 



CHAP. X. 



THE RUN FROM THE ISLAND OF SAVU TO BATAVIA, AND AN 

 ACCOUNT OF THE TRANSACTIONS THERE WHILE THE SHIP 

 WAS REFITTING. 



In the morning of Friday the 2 1st of September, 

 1770, we got under sail, and stood away to the west- 

 ward, along the north side of the island of Savu, and 

 of the smaller that lies to the westward of it, which 

 at noon bore from us S. S. E., distant two leagues. 

 At four o'clock in the afternoon, we discovered 

 a small low island, bearing S. S. W., distant three 

 leagues, which has no place in any chart now extant, 

 at least in none that I have been able to procure : it 

 lies in latitude 10 47' $., longitude 238 28' W. 



At noon on the 22d, we were in latitude 11 10' 

 S., longitude 240 38' W. In the evening of the 

 S3d, we found the variation of the needle to be 2 

 44' W-5 as soon as we got clear of the islands we 

 had constantly a swell from the southward, which I 

 imagined was not caused by a wind blowing from 

 that quarter, but by the sea being so determined by 

 the position of the coast of New Holland. 



At noon, on the 26th, being in latitude 10 47' S., 

 longitude 249 5%' W., we found the variation to be 

 3 10' W., and our situation to be twenty-five miles 

 to the northward of the log ; for which I know not 

 how to account. At noon, on the 27th, our latitude 

 by observation, was 10 51' S., which was agreeable to 

 the log ; and our longitude was 252 IT W. We 

 steered N. W. all day on the 28th, in order to make 

 the land of Java ; and at noon, on the 29th, our la- 

 titude by observation was 9 31' S., longitude 254 

 10' W. j and in the morning of the 30th, I took into 

 my possession the log-book and journals, at least all 



