46 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



This is the name of two iflands covered with 

 trees, between which the water is fa id to be to 

 low, that not even a little boat can pafs. 



We here obferved considerable breakers. 



About four o'clock in the afternoon we 

 had Toppers Hat and the high woody more of 

 Bantam on the left ; but fomewhat farther on, 

 about fix o'clock, we had the Hat of Brabant, 

 a little woody rock, on the fame hand : and 

 directly oppofite to it, on our right, a long, 

 narrow ifiand, which is called Acrofs the Way. 



The 19th of January. 



After a fortnight's voyage from the La- 

 drones, we anchored about noon in the New- 

 Bay, the ufual harbour ; and we took as much 

 water from Java as would fuffice for the whole 

 voyage. In the afternoon I went in a boat on 

 more near the place whence we took in water. 

 It is difficult to reach the more, becaufe the 

 ground is fo full of corals (MUJepora Java- 

 ncnfis), that we were obliged to leave the boat 

 a good way behind us, and the people got 

 out and waded up to their breads in water, 

 and with difficulty carried me to the fliore on 



their 



