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" 5. What and how many ships of the Dutch Com- 

 pany by departure from the last shore there layed, 

 and their names ? 



" 6. If one or more of these ships in company with 

 this, is departed for this or any other place ? 



" 7. If during the voyage any particularities is hap- 

 pened or seen ? 



"8. If not any ships in sea, or the Streights of 

 Sunda, have seen or hailed in, and which ? 



" 9. If any other news worth of attention, attheplace 

 from whence the ship lastly departed, or during the 

 voyage, is happened ? 



" Batavia, in the Castle. 



" By order of the Governor-General 

 " and the Counsellors of India, 



" J. Brander Bungl, Sec." 



Of these questions I answered only the first and the 

 fourth ; which when the officer saw, he said answers 

 to the rest were of no consequence : yet he imme- 

 diately added, that he must send that very paper 

 away to Batavia, and that it would be there the next 

 day at noon. I have particularly related this inci- 

 dent, because I have been credibly informed that it is 

 but of late years that the Dutch have taken upon 

 them to examine ships that pass through this Streight. 



At ten o'clock the same morning, we weighed, 

 with a light breeze at S. W.; but did little more than 

 stem the current, and about two o'clock anchored 

 again under Bantam Point, where we lay till nine ; a 

 light breeze then springing up at S. E., we weighed 

 and stood to the eastward till ten o'clock the next 

 morning, when the current obliged us again to anchor 

 in twenty-two fathom, Pulababi bearing E. by S. J- S., 

 distant between three and four miles. Having alter- 

 nately weighed and anchored several times, till four 

 in the afternoon of the 7th, we then stood to the 

 eastward, with a very faint breeze at N. E. and passed 

 Wapen Island, and the first island to the eastward of 



